Warner L. Ragsdale

Son of a prosperous farmer, in 1860 he was a 13 year old living with his father, 5 siblings, and 10 slaves on their place near Flat Rock in DeKalb County, GA. He enlisted at age 15 on 8 March 1862 in Atlanta, GA and mustered as a Private in Company C of the Infantry Battalion, Cobb's Legion.

He was mortally wounded, shot through the body in action at Crampton's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862 and captured. He died there that day or the next.

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

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3. Wound detail from a partial casualty list in the Atlanta Southern Confederacy of 16 October 1862. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1850 & 1860.

His brothers James, Elijah, Marshall, 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 Marshall were in Company C of the Legion and with Warner in Maryland.

c. 1847; DeKalb County, GA

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