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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Ransom Edwards

(c. 1840 - 1864)

Home State: North Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 15th North Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

Age 20, from Wayne County, he mustered as Private, Company I, 15th North Carolina Infantry on 15 July 1862 in Wake County, NC.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was disabled by his wound and died of pneumonia at Raleigh on 23 June 1864.

References & notes

Service information from Moore1 and the Roster.2

Birth

c. 1840; Wayne County, NC

Death

06/23/1864; Raleigh, NC

Notes

1   Moore, John Wheeler (compiler), and State of North Carolina, Roster of North Carolina Troops in the War Between the States, 4 volumes, Raleigh: Ashe & Gatling, State Printers and Publishers, 1882, Vol. 1, pp. 571 - 579  [AotW citation 7566]