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Confederate (CSV)

Private

William A. Ragsdale

(c. 1837 - 1863)

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 23 year old farmer living with his father, 5 siblings, and 10 slaves on their place near Flat Rock in DeKalb County, GA. He enlisted 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 wounded in action at Crampton's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was on furlough home into November 1862, then back with his company. He was killed at Chancellorsville, VA on 3 May 1863.

His father Francis Asbury “Berry” Ragsdale filed a claim for his final pay on 3 July 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, Marshall, and Warner 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, Marshall, and Warner were in Company C of the Legion and with William in Maryland.

Birth

c. 1837; DeKalb County, GA

Death

05/03/1863; Chancellorsville, VA

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 33889]

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