Hugh Madison Ross

(1831 - 1916)
Home State: Georgia
Command Billet: Battery Commander
Branch of Service: Artillery
Unit: Sumter (GA) Artillery, Battery A

Before the Antietam Campaign:
He was appointed Lieutenant in Captain Cutts' Sumter Flying Artillery battery (later Ross's) 15 July 1861, and Captain (on Cutts' promotion) 23 May 1862.1

The remainder of the War:
Also commanded the battery at Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, to Petersburg as late as August 18642. Was promoted to Major of Artillery 1 March 1865.1

Birth Date: 12/19/1831
Death Date: 04/06/1916

Notes

1 Jones, Charles Edgeworth, Georgia in the War, 1861-1865, Atlanta: Foote and Davies, printer, 1909, pp. 67-68 [AotW citation 873]

2 US War Department, The War of the Rebellion: a Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies (OR), 128 vols., Washington DC: US Government Printing Office, 1880-1901, various pages [AotW citation 874]

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