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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Christopher Columbus Ross

(1830 - ?)

Home State: Texas

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 4th Texas Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

A 32 year old farmer at Salt Hill in Jack County, TX, he enlisted in Athens, TX as a Private in Company K, 4th Texas Infantry on 29 March 1862.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was court-martialed in about May 1863, charges and outcome not given, and he was slightly wounded in the hand at the Wilderness, VA on 6 May 1864. He was captured, probably after deserting his unit, at Beverly, WV, on 29 September 1864, and was released on 5 October 1864 after takin an oath of allegiance to the US at Clarksburg, WV.

After the War

By 1870 he was a farmer at Augusta in Houston County, TX.

References & notes

Service information from Davis 1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 via fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860 (as Columbus Ross) and 1870 (as C C).

He married Permelia (?, b. 1828), probably in Mississippi, and they had 5 children between 1849 and 1859.

One geneaolgist noted that he'd been murdered, but I have found no details.

Birth

06/21/1830; Chickasaw County, MS

Notes

1 Davis, Rev. Nicholas A., The Campaign from Texas to Maryland, Houston: Telegraph Book and Job Establishment, 1863, pp. 164 - 165 [AotW citation 1938]

2 US War Department, Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers, Record Group No. 109 (War Department Collection of Confederate Records), Washington DC: US National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), 1903-1927 [AotW citation 26946]

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