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Confederate (CSV)

Captain

H. Bain Ritchie

(? - 1862)

Home State: Louisiana

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 6th Louisiana Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

He was a farmer from Big Cane in June 1861 when he enrolled as 2nd Lieutenant of Company C of the 6th Louisiana Infantry. He was promoted to Captain on 26 May 1862.

On the Campaign

He was senior officer present at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862 after the regiment pulled back from the Miller Cornfield to regroup near the Dunker Church about 9 AM, and was briefly in command. He was killed in action soon afterward when he led them back on to the field about noon.

The rest of the War

Originally buried "East of J. C. Grove's warehouse, on hill near a new house". Probably reinterred at Hagerstown in about 1874.

References & notes

Burial information from Pruett,1 with service data from Booth.2. His command at Sharpsburg from Gannon,3 citing Captain Ring's Diary.

Birth

Date not known in LA

Death

09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD; burial in Washington Confederate Cemetery, Hagerstown, MD

Notes

1 Pruett, Samuel, and Poffenberger & Good, Greg Farino and Western Maryland Regional Library (WMRL), Washington Confederate Cemetery, possible burials, Hagerstown (MD): WHILBR, 2010 [AotW citation 4512]

2 Booth, Andrew B., Records of Louisiana Confederate Soldiers and Louisiana Confederate Commands, 3 Volumes, New Orleans: State of Louisiana, 1920, Vol. 3, pg. 331 [AotW citation 5051]

3 Gannon, James P., Irish Rebels, Confederate Tigers: A History of the 6th Louisiana Volunteers, 1861-1865, Mason City, IA: Savas Publishing, 1998, pg. 137, 139 [AotW citation 27356]

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