
W.D. Ballantine |
May 25, 1861 to April 9,
1865
Roll Company A (Pensacola Rifle Rangers) - 2nd Florida Infantry
Promoted to Captain May 10, 1862, Major then Lt. Colonel in
1864. He was wounded at Seven Pines on May 31, 1862. Twice
at Sharpsburg on September 17, 1862. Twice at Chancellorsville
May 1863. Again at Gettysburg July 3, 1863. He was captured at
Gettysburg in July of 1863. Sent to Ft. Delaware. One of the "immortal Six
Hundred" Confederate prisoners of war confined on
Morris Island, South Carolina under fire of their own guns
shelling that island. |