Russell Ross

In 1860 he was a 25 year old miller at Redbone in Monroe County, GA. He enlisted at Camp Stephens in Griffin, GA on 9 September 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company G of the 27th Georgia Infantry.

He was wounded by a gunshot in the back in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862 and captured there.

He was treated in a US field hospital on the battlefield, paroled on 27 September, then admitted to US Army General Hospital #5 in Frederick, MD on 12 (or 15) October. He was sent as a prisoner to Fort McHenry in Baltimore on the 16th and transferred to Fortress Monroe, VA for exchange on 18 October. He was admitted to a hospital in Richmond, VA on 24 October and furloughed home for 30 days on 10 November 1862.

He was in Atlanta, GA in March 1863 and furloughed for 30 days on 12 March due to his gunshot wound. He was on furlough or on detached service from April into December 1863, and was listed as absent without leave as of 22 December 1863, but was then in a hospital in Macon, GA. He was again furloughed on 8 January 1864 and returned to be issued clothing in April 1864 with no later military record.

In 1880 he was a farmer at Plantersville in Grimes County, TX. He was at Central Point/Forsyth, Monroe County, GA at his death of pneumonia at age 63 in 1897.

His service from his Compiled Service Record,1 online via fold3. Wound and hospital details from a casualty list in the Atlanta Southern Confederacy   of 18 November 1862 and from the Patient List.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860 & 1880. His gravesite is on Findagrave. His picture from a retouched photograph contributed to the FamilySearch database by Linda Weltz.

He married Elizabeth J. Varner (1838-1862) in December 1852 and they had 2 sons; the second, Sidney, died in 1862 at age 2. He married again, Mary Ann Amanda Powell (1841-1919) in January 1863 and they had 7 children together.

02/16/1834; Monroe County, GA

02/03/1897; in GA; burial in Woodlawn Cemetery, Eastman, GA