George Parker Ring

He enlisted as a Private in Company D, 3rd Tennessee Volunteer Infantry in Nashville on 24 September 1847 for Mexican War service and mustered out on 24 July 1848, then listed at 19 years old.

From New Orleans he enrolled 4 June 1861 at Camp Moore, LA as First Lieutenant of Company K - the Violet Guards - of the 6th Louisiana Infantry.

He was with Colonel Strong when that officer was shot at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862 and later remembered:

I was struck with a ball on the knee joint while I was kneeling by Col. Strong's body, securing his valuables. I got another ball on my arm and two on my sword in my hand, so you see I have cause to thank God that he has protected me in this great battle.

He was promoted to Captain of the Company on 7 November 1862 when Captain Manning was commissioned Major of the regiment. He was on detached duty in January and February 1863, and on detail in Nolasulgo, AL from July 1863 to February 1864. He was wounded, place not given, on 19 October 1864. On 28 March 1865 he was issued the following order from the Secretary of War:

You are hereby authorized to raise a company of negro troops in the State of Alabama, under the provisions of the act of Congress approved March 13, 1865, as promulgated in General Orders, No. 14, Adjutant and Inspector General's Office, current series. The authority will expire sixty days from this date, if the company be not raised within that time.

His Mexican War service from his Compiled Service Records at the US National Archives via fold3. Civil War service information from Booth.1. His Sharpsburg recollection quoted in Gannon,2 from the Ring letters in the Association of the Army of Northern Virginia Papers. The order about negro troops from the OR.3 Personal details from family genealogists. His memorial is on Findagrave.

He married Suzanne Virginia Micou (1836-1895) in New Orleans in February 1857 and they had 2 children.

c. 1829 in TN

06/09/1867; New Orleans, LA