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| Union soldiers outside Atlanta, Georgia |
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| Battle of Utoy Creek |
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| Elstner Grave in Spring Grove Cemetery |
Human nature will not change. In any future great national trial, compared with the men of this, we shall have as weak and as strong, as silly and as wise, as bad and as good. Let us therefore study the incidents in this as philosophy to learn wisdom from and none of them as wrongs to be avenged. ~ Abraham Lincoln, November 10, 1864
Thursday, March 14, 2013
George Elstner, born March 14, 1842
George Elstner was born in Cincinnati, Ohio where he lived until the Civil War began. He was 19 years old at the beginning of the war.
He commanded the 50th Ohio Volunteer Infantry as Lieutenant Colonel during Major General William T. Sherman's Atlanta Campaign. The regiment was attached to the XXIII Corps of the Army of the Ohio.
He was killed while leading his regiment at the Battle of Utoy Creek on August 8, 1864 near Atlanta, Georgia when he was 22 years old. He received a brevet promotion to Brigadier General of U. S. Volunteers on the same day that he was killed.
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