after several months recovering from his wounds, which in fact had not healed properly, elliott joined general joseph e. johnston's army of tennessee in north carolina, where he led a brigade of former charleston defenders and largely untested soldiers. from january 2, 1865 through march 1865, the brigade was in taliaferro's division of hardee's corps. for the few remaining weeks of the war, the brigade was in anderson's division of stewart's corps.