GREER, Elkanah Brackin

Affiliation:  Union

Born: October 11 1825, Paris TN

Died: March 25 1877, DeVall's Bluff AR

Pre-War Profession: Mexican War, planter, merchant

War Service: July 1861 Col. of 3rd Texas Cavalry, Wilson's Creek, Elkhorn Tavern (w), October 1862 Brig. Gen., chief of Conscription Bureau in Trans Mississippi, commanded reserve forces in 1864.

Post War: After the war, Greer resumed his civilian career as a planter and merchant.