Bruce and Susan Ingram are direct descendants of James Kinsella through their mother. On their father’s side, they are directly descended from John Hicks Ingram of Alabama who volunteered for service to the Confederacy on April 20, 1862, and was mustered into service as a private in Company F, Second Regiment of the Alabama Cavalry at Camp Stone on April 29, 1862.
John Hicks Ingram was married to Emily Gardner whose two brothers also served in the Confederate Army.
Ben Gardner was a captain in the 15th Alabama Volunteer Infantry. Jefferson Gardner was in the 19th Arkansas Infantry (Dockery’s)and was wounded in his right foot, causing which caused him to limp afterwards.
It is possible that the 71st Pennsylvania and the 15th Alabama regiments were in the same battles at some point during the Civil War.
John Hick Ingram’s son John Shepherd Ingram married Ida Bickerstaff whose brothers Robert Abner and Reuben Bickerstaff served the Confederacy.
Her three cousins also served. Jefferson Bickerstaff, with the 34th Alabama Regiment, was killed at the Battle Murfreesboro, January 1862. Robert Bickerstaff, Jr. served with the 23rd Arkansas Infantry. The son of a third brother, Warren Bickerstaff, also enlisted.
Source: The Ingram Family History. Researched and compiled by Corinne Ingram Burney, deceased, of Savannah, Georgia. Member: Daughters of the American Revolution, Daughters of the American Colonists, Colonial Dames of the XVII Century.
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Regimental Histories
2nd Alabama Cavalry Regiment
The Second Alabama Cavalry Regiment was organized at Montgomery on 1 May 1862. It proceeded to West Florida and operated there about ten months, engaging in several skirmishes. Ordered to north Mississippi, the regiment was placed with Brig. Gen’l Daniel Ruggles. It then lost 8 men in a skirmish at Mud Creek. It was then placed in Brig. Gen’l Samuel W. Ferguson’s Brigade and operated in the Tennessee Valley, taking part in numerous skirmishes.
The 2nd fought Union Gen’l Benjamin H. Grierson at Okolona with a loss of about 70 men killed and wounded; then it harassed Union Gen’l William T. Sherman on his march to and from Mississippi. Joining Gen’l Joseph Wheeler, the 2nd performed arduous duty on the flank of the army in the Dalton-Atlanta Campaign, losing a number of men in the battle on the 22nd of July at Atlanta. Having accompanied Gen’l John Bell Hood to Rome, the 2nd then fell on Sherman’s rear and skirmished almost daily with some losses. The regiment tracked Sherman to Greensboro, NC, then escorted President Jefferson Davis to Georgia. At Forsyth, in that state, the regiment surrendered its arms, about 450 men.
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15th Alabama Volunteer Regiment
The Fifteenth Alabama Volunteer Infantry was one of the regiments that went up against the 20th Maine and Chamberlain on Little Round Top on the 2nd day at Gettysburg. The 3rd day they were still posted on the right flank of the Confederate line beyond Devils Den and had a hand in repulsing the Farnsworth cavalry charge and killing Col. Farnsworth. The regiment was organized at Fort Mitchell, Alabama, in August, 1861, with eleven companies. With over 900 men, the regiment was moved into East Tennessee and then Virginia. It joined the main army near Manassas and was brigaded with the 21st Georgia, 21st North Carolina, and 16th Mississippi Regiments under Maj. Gen’l G. B. Crittenden of Kentucky.
When the army moved over to Yorktown, the 15th remained on the Shenandoah in Maj. Gen’l Thomas J. ‘Stonewall’ Jackson’s Division to participate in the Valley Campaign. It was engaged with slight loss at Front Royal and Winchester, but it lost 9 killed and 33 wounded out of 425 engaged at Cross Keys. Moving over to Richmond in Jackson’s flank attack against Union Maj. Gen’l George B. McClellan, the 15th entered the first battle of Cold Harbor with 412 men and lost 34 killed and 110 wounded. The regiment suffered slightly at Malvern Hill on 1 July. It was engaged at Hazel River and at Manassas Junction with a loss of 6 killed and 22 wounded. The 15th Alabama participated in the 2nd Battle of Manassas, losing 21 killed and 91 wounded out of 440 men engaged. At Chantilly, the regiment lost 4 killed and 14 wounded and took part in the investment of Harper’s Ferry, with trivial loss. At Sharpsburg, of 300 men engaged, 9 were killed.
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19th Regiment, Arkansas Infantry (Dockery’s)
The Nineteenth (Smead’s-Dockery’s) Infantry Regiment was assembled at Devall’s Bluff, Arkansas, in April, 1861, and moved to Memphis, then Fort Pillow, Tennessee.The unit participated in the Battles of Corinth and Hatchie Bridge, and reported 129 casualties.
Later it was attached to General M. E. Green’s Brigade, Department of Mississippi and East Louisiana. It fought at Port Gibson, then was part of the garrison captured at Vicksburg in July, 1863. After being exchanged, the regiment was reorganized and mounted. It was placed in Dockery’s and Roane’s Brigade, Trans-Mississippi Department, and saw action at Marks’ Mills. After some minor skirmishing the unit disbanded.
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34th Alabama Volunteer Regiment
The Thirty-fourth Alabama Infantry was organized at Loachapoka on 15 April 1862. It was sent to Tupelo, MS, and was placed with the 24th and 28th Alabama regiments, and two South Carolina regiments, in Gen’l Arthur M. Manigault’s Brigade, Gen’l Jones M. Wither’s Division. The regiment moved into Kentucky but was not in action during the campaign. It was with the main Army of Tennessee when it fought at Murfreesboro, and it sustained heavy casualties. The remainder of the winter was spent near Tullahoma, and the regiment then withdrew with the army to the Chattanooga area.
At Chickamauga, the 34th again lost heavily, and at Missionary Ridge, a large number were captured. The regiment, numbering 388 men and 281 arms, wintered and recruited for the campaigning of 1864 at Dalton and began the “Hundred Days’ Battle” in the spring. From Dalton to Atlanta, the 34th shared fully in the operations of the Army of Tennessee. It lost heavily in the battles of 22 and 28 July, at Atlanta. At Jonesboro, casualties were light. At the Battle of Franklin, the 34th escaped the severest part of the fighting, but at Nashville, the remainder of the unit was nearly decimated.
With the wreck of the Army, the regiment passed into the Carolinas where it skirmished at Kinston and again at Bentonville. Ultimately consolidated with the 24th and 28th regiments, about 100 of the original 1,000 members of the regiment were surrendered at High Point, North Carolina, 26 April 1865.
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23rd Arkansas Volunteer Regiment
The Twenty-third Arkansas organized near Corinth, Mississippi on April 25, 1862 by the consolidation of Adams’ and Hughes’ Infantry Battalions and Adair’s Infantry Company. The individual companies and battalions were reorganized on May 27, 1862, but the regiment itself was not organized until September 10, 1862. The regiment was reorganized after the battle of Shiloh. The 23rd Arkansas was heavily engaged in the battles of Iuka and Corinth. It was then united in a brigade with the 15th, 16th, and 18th Arkansas and Colonel Batt. Jones’ battalion and was sent to the defense of Port Hudson, LA under Colonel Lyles, going through the long siege of that strongpoint.
The regiment was surrendered with the garrison of Port Hudson on July 9, 1863, and was paroled later that month and eventually exchanged. After exchange, the survivors returned to Arkansas where they were reorganized as mounted troops in Fagan’s Cavalry Division in August, 1864. The regiment participated in Price’s Missouri Raid in September and October of 1864, then served in northeast Arkansas for the remainder of the war. The regiment surrendered at Jacksonport, Arkanas with Brigadier General M. Jeff Thompson’s troops on May 11, 1865.
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