Elkanah B. Greer | |
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Born | Paris, Tennessee, US | October 11, 1825
Died | March 25, 1877 DeValls Bluff, Arkansas, US | (aged 51)
Allegiance | United States of America Confederate States of America |
Service | United States Army Confederate States Army |
Years of service | 1861–1865 |
Rank | Private Brigadier General |
Commands | Greer's Brigade |
Battles / wars | Mexican–American War American Civil War |
Other work | planter, merchant, lawyer |
Elkanah Brackin (or Bracken) Greer (October 11, 1825 – March 25, 1877) was an antebellum cotton planter, merchant, and then a general in the Confederate States Army who served in the Western Theater of the American Civil War.