[no picture yet]

Confederate (CSV)

Private

Andrew Thornton Ray, Jr.

(1840 - 1904)

Home State: Alabama

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 13th Alabama Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

An unmarried 20 year old farmer from Randolph County, AL, he enlisted there on 2 July and mustered in Montgomery, AL on 19 July as a Private in Company D of the 13th Alabama Infantry.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was captured at Gettysburg, PA on 1 July 1863 and was a prisoner at Fort Delaware from 6 July 1863 to 14 June 1865 when he took an oath of allegiance to the United States and was released.

References & notes

His service from his Confederate Compiled Service Records1 online from fold3, and the Alabama Archives.2 His memorial is on Findagrave.

He married Martha Elizabeth Pesnell (1850-1936) in August 1870 and they had 6 children.

Birth

12/18/1840; Arbacoochee, AL

Death

04/11/1904; Cleburne County, AL; burial in Cedar Creek Cemetery, Heflin, AL

Notes

1 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 32853]

2 State of Alabama, Dept. of Archives & History, Alabama Civil War Service Database, Published 2004, first accessed 01 January 2010, <https://archives.alabama.gov/research/CivilWarService.aspx> [AotW citation 32854]

« Search for another Person