E-mail from Ellen Brown “Re:Elisha Prescott” 6 July 2005
… In a letter dated May 20, 1861, Elisha wrote to his sister Wealthy and her husband Ben (my great-grandparents) urging the young couple to move to Portage. Elisha expressed concern about his “motherless” daughter Hannah. No mention was made of son Lewis, so presumably he was deceased as was younger daughter Alice….
…Elisha and his brother John served during the Civil War in Company A 100th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry. They, along with about 270 others were in a battle against some 2100 rebels in a hard fight at Limestone Station, Tennessee, Sept. 8, 1863, when they were finally overpowered and all imprisoned at Belle Isle in Richmond, Virginia. After being paroled in 1864, the brothers suffered from ill health caused by the treatment they received while in the Confederate prison. After his parole, April 1864, Elisha was hospitalized in Baltimore, where he died. After being paroled from the prison in March, 1864, John went with General Sherman’s army into Georgia. He fought there until his poor health required him to be hospitalized. He was honorably discharged from the Union Army the 29th of May, 1865.
Source: Prescott Memorial; Part II, p. 547
Elisha is buried in Plot 85 at Loudon Park National Cemetery, Baltimore City, Maryland