Elisha Lee Womble

1833 - Abt 1891  (~ 59 years)

• Name	Elisha Lee Womble  [1]
  Born	Between 1832 and 1833	Georgia, USA   [2, 3]
  Gender	Male
  Died	Abt 1891
  Person ID	I3827	My Genealogy
  Last Modified	22 Feb 2020

  
  

  Family	Martha Jane Brown,   b. 1842, Georgia, USA ,   d. 1927  (Age 85 years)
  Married	1856	Georgia, USA
  Children	1. Vivia Gertrude Womble,   b. 19 May 1872  [natural]   2. Vistus Buana Womble,   b. Abt 1876, Georgia  [natural]   3. Leonora Womble,   b. Abt 1877, Georgia  [natural]   4. Martha Ann Elizabeth Womble,   b. 20 May 1861, Georgia, USA ,   d. 1945  (Age 83 years)  [natural]   5. Charles Hamilton Womble,   b. 15 Nov 1859, Keg Creek, Washington, Georgia, USA ,   d. 3 Sep 1944, Washington, Georgia, USA  (Age 84 years)  [natural]   6. Thomas Womble,   b. Abt 1862  [natural]   7. Kate Womble  [natural]
  Last Modified	22 Feb 2020
  Family ID	F1350	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map		Born - Between 1832 and 1833 - Georgia, USA Married - 1856 - Georgia, USA  = Link to Google Earth
  Pin Legend	: Address       : Location       : City/Town       : County/Shire       : State/Province       : Country       : Not Set

  
  

• Notes

  - Letter written 8 December 1861 by E. Womble Camp Haskil near Savannah Written to Mr. J.N. Hooks Dear Friend, I (?) make the attempt to write you a short letter which leaves me in moderate health hoping wil find you well. I have bin waiting sometime thinking I would have something new to write but have not and fear I wil not intrest you at all. When I first come in camp I could see something new everyday but now it is a sight to the contrary. I hear a good many stories and I?ve bin in the habit of beleaving some of them but now I don?t know whether to beleave anything or not. I know one thing they have got us bound up very tite. I?ve not bin out side of the encampment since last Sunday only when we was drilling. They drill us 6 hours in the day we hardly have time to cook and eat these short days. They talk of sending we six months fellows home about Christmas but I can?t tell whether that is soon or not. They talk of turning us over to the Confederate government but I don?t know whether they will do that or not.I see they are sending Soldiers here from Mississippi they are Confederate soldiers. I think from the way everything is working we wil get the chance to get in to a fight before long. I think the Yankeys aims at taking Fort Pulaski and if they take that they can take Savannah. They is the size of 20 vessels in 3 or 4 miles of the fort. I think they are waiting for recruits. They have left Tybee Island . Our men fined a light house thare the other night and the Yankeys saw the light of it and turned in to it shooting at it. I think they shot some 30 or 40 times before they found out what they was shooting at. I heard the guns and thought it was (?) men shooting. I would like to come up about Christmas but they will be no chance . They wil not let no man have a furlough now nor wil not before Christmas. This is one of the Christmases I expect to stay home if I live. James you must get some of the boys and come down and take christmas with us. I don?t think you spend your money in a better place(?). Come down and stay 3 or 4 days. It wil not cost you anything after you get down here. We have a very nice heltha place here to camp. I hope we wil not move anymore while we have to stay in camps. But I expect we wil have to dobble quick down to tybee before long. I think we have the meanest Doctor for our Reg. that I ever saw. They was a man dide in it yesterday and I think Wm Bridges will die before tomorrow morning and I beleave they killed him. Dr. (?) has gone home. I wrote to Mollie to try to get you in the notion to wait until I come back before you and her jumps into dobble trobble. She said she would wait until Christmas and that wil soon be here. Give her my respects when you see her and recieve an equal fraction yourself. You must write soon and all the new direct to Savannah 1st Reg Gen. Harrisons Brig. Care of C. B. Haskins Com. B you see they is two Brigades now and of course they is two first Regiments or a first Reg. in each Brig. and they take the Companys in alphabetical form as Com A, Com B and so on ours is Com B. Decm. 8th/61 from your friend, E. Womble Mr. Wm Bridges has dide since I started this letter or since I finished it rather. <http://www.civilwarhistory.com/SoldiersLifeVisual/Letters/Womble.htm> - Womble, E. L, enlisted May 8, 1862, private; surrendered at Appomattox, Va. April 9, 1865

  
  

• Sources

  [S298] Union Baptist Church of Washington County, Georgia. Photocopied pages from cousin Barry Franklin of Milledgeville, Georgia, 2003 [S58] 1880 Washington County, Georgia Census. Giles District [S460] "Civil War File", Accessed June 2010.