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Military Records
From the Columbus City Directory 1873-1874 The Late War between the States February, 1861, Georgia feeling aggrieved at the sectional aspect of the General Government, assembled in Convention and resolved to withdraw from the Union and join a Confederacy of Southern States. The North uprose, and with an immense army confronted and ordered the South to cease further demonstration; the South refused to recoil; then the old and young of the South assembled together for the defense of their homes, and in no State or City in the South was a more heroic or determined spirit evinced than among our citizens of Columbus, Ga; old and young came forward and freely gave of their means and laid down their lives in the cause. The following list, we regret to say, is not as perfect as we would desire of our Heroes, but a more satisfactory statement could not be obtained, owing to the loss of record matter during and at the close of the war; we having but little material at hand to work upon, and in some instances been compelled to resort to every individual member within reach, of the remnant of whole companies.
-------To Obtain a Military Marker for Grave of
Veteran--------
Elbert Cleghorn Ramsay of Midway, Baldwin
County,Georgia.
Other records indicate:
Enlisted as a private in Co. A, 20th Batallion, Georgia Cavalry
, Dec. 25, 1862. Admitted to Richmond , Virginia Hospital with
debility 19 June 1864. Transferred to Co. H, 62d Regiment, Georgia
Infantry; Transferred to Co., I, 8th Regiment Georgia cavalry, 11 July
1864. Paroled at Thomasville, Georgia, 18 May 1865.
He was a graduate of Oglethorpe
University. He went on to become a Judge in Baldwin County after the
war. He was also Superintendant of "the Little Church Under the
Pines" at Midway for many years. He was married to Mary
Screven of LaGrange,Georgia, but they had no children. Elbert died 23
Dec. 1890. Parents were Randolph Hassell Ramsay and Mary Ann Monroe
Cleghorn.
Submitted by Carolyn
F. Ramsay Grady
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