Kammala wannan jumla: Elias ya shiga aikin soja a ranar 18 ga Yuni, 1861 a matsayin Private a Kamfanin A, 6th Ohio Infantry. Ranar 5 ga Oktoba, 1861, an ci gaba da shi zuwa Mataimakin Mataimakin kuma an canja shi zuwa Kamfanin F, 75th Ohio Infantry. Daga bisani an ba shi izinin zama na farko na wannan kamfani a ranar 15 ga Mayu, 1862 da kuma Kyaftin din a ranar 12 ga Janairu, 1863. Ya shiga cikin 20 alkawurran, daga cikinsu akwai masu zuwa: Phillipi, Laurel Hill, Carrick's Ford, Monterey, Shaw's Ridge, McDowell, Franklin, Strausburg, Cross Keys, Cedar Mountain, Freeman's Ford, Waterloo Bridge, Sulfur Springs, na biyu Bull Run,
Chantilly, Chancellorsville, Fredericksburg, da kuma Gettysburg. A cikin yaƙin ƙarshe, an ji rauni mai haɗari, 2 ga Yuli, 1863, wanda ya zama dole a gare shi ya miƙa wuya ga maimaita ayyukan tiyata, na ƙarshe ya faru a watan Yuni 1911.