Southern Freedom Fighter John Elbert Elliott, Sr. (Pvt. 46th Alabama Infantry, Company I) related the stories of his life during the war and his life as a POW in the hellish Camp Chase to his oldest granchild Vassie Elliott, daughter of Alabama native James Warren "Jimmy" Elliott and Texas native Eula McNeely--Jimmy being the only son of J. E. Elliott and wife Nancy Roney, both natives of Henry County, Alabama and the Camp Springs Community.

Vassie Elliott later married James W."Jimbo" Bacon of the Bacon Community in Smtih County in East Texas. To add to the confusing of the Elliott family, Mary Cordelia Elliott, only daughter of John Elbert Elliott, Sr. married the the senior widower J.w. Bacon, father of James W. "Jimo" Bacon. J. W. Bacon's first wife was Nannie Harnage the granddaughter of the famous Englishmen Ambrose Harnage that was the leqwqYoung Vassie Elliott Bacon now had a mother-in-law that was also her aunt!

All this was in the Bacon Community that is along today's FMRD850 (2008)--The Old Tyler to Overton Road--that the Elliotts settled circa 1890 as settlers from Henry County, Alabama in the very Southeastern corner of the
State of Alabama bordered by the Chattahoochee River and the Georgia State line.

John Elbert Elliott, Sr. talked with his granddaughter Vassie this story that happened at Camp Chase until his death in 1926. We placed a Comfederate grave a short few years ago in the Williams Cemetery.

The Scottish Elliott Clan were once amonmg the Steel Bonnets that guarded the Middle March of Scotland as well as the Hermitage Castle. They wore there honor on their shoulder as well as their hot temper.

John Elbert Elliott told this story to his granddaughter Vassie Elliott Bacon:

There was another Cofederate POW that was a bullyzopkinto a tussle with another prisoner and ended the foreray when he hit his opponent in the head with a seasoned pine knot, known in South Alabama as a "lighterd knot" while others call it a "lightwood" knot. Regardless of its name John Elbert Elliott knocked out his fellow Southern compatriot cold.

An exceptionally hard nosed Yankee officer had two mem place a horridly heavy pole across Elliott's shoulder. John Elbert was then to march back and forth all day with this pole on his shoulders all day.

At the end of the day, the Yankee officer asked Confederate Pvt. John E. Elliott if he had anything to say. John Elbert Elliott with a glare focused into the grim face of the Yankeew and said, "Well, Capt., I have toted wood for you at day and all I have is this one damn log!" He was made to carry the pole for another day.