Ebenezer P. Ferguson

In 1860 he was an unmarried 20 year old farm hand living with his parents and 6 younger siblings on their modest farm at Rockford in Coosa County, AL. He enlisted at Montgomery, AL on 19 July 1861 and he mustered as a Private in Company C of the 13th Alabama Infantry.

He was with his company in action at Turner's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September and at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

He was promoted to Corporal on 1 March 1863 and was wounded by a gunshot to his head at Gettysburg, PA on 1 July 1863. He was on furlough and in Richmond, VA hospitals in July, August, and September 1863, and briefly listed as a deserter afterward, but was back with his company in May 1864. He was again on furlough by October 1864, with no later record with his company. He was probably paroled by members of the 10th Michigan Cavalry at Newton, NC about 19 April 1865.

By 1870 he was a farm worker at Wetumpka in Elmore County (from Coosa in 1866), AL but in 1880 was a farm worker in Independence County, AR. In 1900 he was a farmer in the Chickasaw Nation, Indian Territory (now Oklahoma) and by 1910 in what was by then Pontotoc County (created with statehood in 1907), OK.

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3, and the Archives.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1910. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Elmina C. Sanford (1843-1910) in November 1866 and they had 6 children.

12/1840 in AL

1910; in OK; burial in Rosedale Cemetery, Ada, OK