Andrew Nathan Ribble

Son of a store clerk, in 1860 he was a 16 year old living with his parents and 3 siblings near Selma in Delaware County, IN. He enlisted in Delaware County, IN and mustered on 29 July 1861 as a Private in Company K, 19th Indiana Infantry.

He was wounded by a gunshot to his chest in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862. Another soldier, Robert Patterson of Company E later remembered:

A boy about my age on my left was moaning piteously and I thought myself lucky when I saw the blood oozing from a bullet wound in his breast with every breath. I tried to encourage him, and when he turned his pallid face toward me I saw he was Andrew Ribble of Company K of our regiment. He could only wisper [sic], "O, Bob, I'll soon be gone."

He recovered sufficiently to go home and was discharged for disability from wounds on 6 December 1862. He began receiving a disability pension in January 1863.

He was a brakeman on the Bellefontaine Railroad and was killed on the job on 19 January 1865 while walking on top of a train car in a tunnel. It was the day after his 21st birthday.

Service basics from the Adjutant General.1 The quote above from the Muncie Morning Star of 18 September 1912, transcribed online by John Banks. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860, as A.N.S. Ribble. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Christena Cook (later Moore, 1845-1886) in October 1863 and they had a son N. Washington Ribble (1864-1870).

Andrew's brother Geroge Washington Ribble (b. 1843) was also in Company K and died of disease in Washington, DC on 12 January 1862.

01/18/1844; Delaware County, IN

01/19/1865; Delaware County, IN; burial in Mount Tabor Cemetery, Muncie, IN