Henry Hope Ridgeway

An unmarried 32 year old farmer from Millville, AL, he enlisted in Montgomery, AL on 19 July 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company G of the 13th Alabama Infantry.

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

He was wounded by a gunshot to his foot which broke bones and was captured at Gettysburg, PA on 3 July 1863 and treated at US hospitals in Chester, PA then, from 4 October, at Point Lookout, MD. He was paroled there and transferred for exchange on 3 March 1864 and was in a hospital in Richmond, VA by 7 March. He was retired to the Invalid Corps "totally disqualified" for field service on 16 September 1864.

In 1900 he was a day laborer in LaFayette County, FL and he was farming his own place there by 1910.

His service from his Confederate Compiled Service Records1 online from fold3, as Henry H Ridgway, and the Alabama Archives.2 Personal details from family genealogists, the US Census of 1900 & 1910, and his widow Elizabeth's Florida Confederate pension application of September 1920.

He married Rebecca S. Parker in September 1864 and they probably had at least 2 children. He married again, Elizabeth A Fuquay (1858-) in February 1898.

12/10/1828; Butler County, AL

07/02/1920; LaFayette County, FL; burial in New Prospect Baptist Church Cemetery, Cross City, FL