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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Marshall K. Ragsdale

(c. 1839 - 1862)

Home State: Georgia

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: Cobb's (GA) Legion, Infantry Battalion

Before Sharpsburg

Son of a prosperous farmer, in 1860 he was a 21 year old student living with his father, 5 siblings, and 10 slaves on their place near Flat Rock in DeKalb County, GA. He enlisted at age 22 on 1 August 1861 in Decatur, GA and mustered on 5 August as a Private in Company C of the Infantry Battalion, Cobb's Legion.

On the Campaign

He was killed in action at Crampton's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862.

The rest of the War

His father Francis Asbury “Berry” Ragsdale filed a claim for his (and brother Warner's) final pay on 13 January 1863.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1850 & 1860.

His brothers James, Elijah, Warner, and William were all in Confederate service; none survived the war. James, a Lieutenant in the 21st Mississippi Infantry, was killed at Malvern Hill in 1862. Elijah, William, and Warner were in Company C of the Legion and with Marshall in Maryland.

Birth

c. 1839; DeKalb County, GA

Death

09/14/1862; Crampton's Gap, MD

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 33887]

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