This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: ELLIOTT Classification: Military Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/JhU.2ACEB/4662 Message Board Post: Source: http://www.army.mil/cmh/Default.htm Note: This is not my ancestry. I am just passing along information that may be useful. ELLIOTT, RUSSELL C. Rank and organization: Sergeant, Company B, 3d Massachusetts Cavalry. Place and date: At Natchitoches, La., 19 April 1864. Entered service at: Boston, Mass. Birth: Concord, N.H. Date of issue: 20 November 1896. Citation: Seeing a Confederate officer in advance of his command, charged on him alone and unaided and captured him.