| Summary: | (In the photograph, he has a colonel's collar, but the button arrangement of a brigadier general.) Graduated from West Point, 1837; Seminole War and Mexican War veteran. In charge of the Augusta, Georgia, arsenal in 1861, but resigned his U.S. Army commission in April 1861 after returning his men safely to Washington. Commissioned as a colonel in the 1st Maryland Infantry. Promoted to brigadier general in July 1861 and major general in December 1862. Major campaigns and battles include First Manassas, the Shenandoah Valley campaign, and Gaines Mill (wounded). After recovering from his wound, he became the commander of the Department of Richmond. Elzey returned to Maryland after the war. He died in Baltimore in February 1871 and is buried there. Sources: Boatner, Mark M. The Civil War Dictionary. New York: Vintage Books, 1988. Davis, William C., ed. The Confederate General. Vol. 2. National Historical Society, 1991.
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