Burgess Ransom Reeves

A married 29 year old farmer, he enlisted at Yorktown, VA on 10 April 1862 and mustered as a Private in Company K of the 13th Alabama Infantry.

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

He was admitted to a Richmond, VA hospital on 18 October and furloughed home on 22 October 1862. He was permanently disabled by his Sharpsburg wound and discharged on 10 March 1864.

By 1870 he was a farmer in Paulding County, GA, but in 1880 was farming in Lamar County, AL. He moved to Texas about 1897 and in 1900 was a farmer in Navarro County. He'd retired there and was living with his daughter Etta Jane and her family by 1910.

His service from his Confederate Compiled Service Records1 online from fold3, and the Alabama Archives.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1870-1910. His gravesite is on Findagrave; his stone has his birth in 1833.

He married Ellenore H. Ward (1843-1910) in 1860 and they had 9 children.

His brothers Archibald (1816-1881, and Archibald's sons Archibald and William B.), William, Thompson, Loftin (1836-1922), and James (1845-1864) were also in Company K.

01/27/1832; Decatur County, GA

11/02/1914; Navarro County, TX; burial in Dawson Cemetery, Dawson, TX