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Confederate (CSV)

Private

William P. Ramsaur

(1834 - 1896)

Home State: Arkansas

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 3rd Arkansas Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

He was in Mississippi as a child, and a farmer in Ashley County, AR by about 1857. He enlisted in Company A, 3rd Arkansas Infantry, at Portland, Arkansas, May 20, 1861.

The rest of the War

He was wounded in action at Chickamauga, GA on September 19, 1863. He was paroled at Charlotte, NC at War's end on May 19, 1865.

After the War

He moved to California in 1869 and married Florence Walker in 1874.

References & notes

Basic information from Howerton1. Details and his presence at Sharpsburg from family genealogists in Julius H. Shuford's A Historical Sketch of the Shuford Family (1901).

Birth

06/28/1834 in NC

Death

10/13/1896; burial in Angelus Rosedale Cemetery, Los Angeles, CA