Elias Gustave Gamache

1840 - 1863  (23 years)

• Name	Elias Gustave Gamache
  Birth	ca. 1840	Missouri
  Gender	Male
  Death	16 May 1863	Battle of Baker's Creek
  Person ID	I6846	King/Roy | Ancestors and relatives of Alphonse Gamache
  Last Modified	19 Jan 2015

  
  

  Father	Dr. Louis David Gamache,   b. 9 Mar 1808, St. Louis, ST. LOUIS, Missouri d. 8 May 1897, Rock Creek, JEFFERSON, Missouri (Age 89 years)
  Mother	Elizabeth Dahmen (Diamond),   b. 6 Jun 1812, Tennessee d. 9 Mar 1889, Maxville, JEFFERSON, Missouri (Age 76 years)
  Marriage	7 Nov 1831
  Documents		Federal Census 1850, Louis Gamache and Elizabeth Dahmen family Rock Twp.,JEFFERSON, Missouri
  Family ID	F1807	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - ca. 1840 - Missouri Death - 16 May 1863 - Battle of Baker's Creek  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Notes

  private in Company F, 2d Missouri Infantry, CSA Died: The Battle of Champion Hill, fought May 16, 1863, was the pivotal battle in the Vicksburg Campaign of the American Civil War. Union commander Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant and the Army of the Tennessee pursued the retreating Confederate Lt. Gen. John C. Pemberton and defeated his army twenty miles to the east of Vicksburg, Mississippi, leading inevitably to the Siege of Vicksburg and surrender. The battle is also known as Bakers Creek.