Alfred F Elcock Jr, Landsman, US Navy, Civil War

Pension Records show service on board USS North Carolina and USS Itasca

Connecticut, Deaths and Burials Index, 1650-1934about Alfred F Elcock
Name: Alfred F Elcock
Birth Date: abt 1842
Age at Death: 65
Death Date: 8 Oct 1907
Death Place: Connecticut
Burial Place: Connecticut
Cemetery: Old Hazardville Cemetery
Gender: Male
FHL Film Number: 3333

American Civil War Soldiersabout Alfred Elcock
Name: Alfred Elcock
Residence: Windsore Locks
Enlistment Date: 6 Sep 1861
Side Served: Union
State Served: U.S. Navy
Service Record: Enlisted as a Landsman on 6 September 1861.
Enlisted in Navy Regiment U.S. Navy on 6 Sep 1861.
Discharged from Navy Regiment U.S. Navy on 26 Jul 1864.
Sources: 5

U.S. Navy Pensions Index, 1861-1910about Alfred Elcock
Name: Alfred Elcock
Publication: M1469
Pension Approval: Approved
File Number: 77251
Certification Number: 38811
Fiche Number: 38000

USS Itasca was a Unadilla-class gunboat built for the U.S. Navy during the American Civil War. She was used by the Navy to patrol navigable waterways of the Confederacy to prevent the South from trading with other countries.

Itasca was a wooden screw steamer launched by Hillman & Streaker at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1 October 1861; and commissioned there 28 November 1861, Lt. C. H. B. Caldwell in command.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Itasca_%281861%29

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