Son of a (reportedly but undocumented) Ira Baker and a Delilah DeBord/Deboard.
DOB taken from 1900 Census
DOD taken from tombstone application
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Private: CO A, 26th North Carolina Infantry (Confederate).
From 10 May 1862 – 20 July 1863. He fought with 26th NC Infantry at the Battle of Gettysburg 1-3 July 1863, including in the so-called "Pickett's Charge." He then deserted from the Confederate Army on 20 July 1863.
Private: CO K, 18th Pennsylvania Cavalry (Union).
Enlisted on 29 February 1864 in Johnstown, PA, and then traveled to Harrisburg, Dauphin County, PA, where he was originally assigned there to CO K, 18th Pennsylvania Calvary.
Because of his former Confederate service, Ambrose was detached to the Department of the Northwest, CO F, 1st U.S. Volunteer Regiment, for eventual duty in the Dakota Territories. He arrived there, via Camp Douglas near Chicago, IL, Milwaukee, WI, Minneapolis, MN, Fort Ridgely, MN, sometime in the late summer or early fall of 1864. Along with about 80 other former Confederate soldiers, they built, using local stone and materials, what was then called Fort Wadsworth, Dakota Territories. The fort is now called Fort Sisseton, South Dakota, and is a South Dakota State Park.
Following the 9 April 1865 surrender at Appomattox Courthouse, VA, on 14 August 1865, Special Order 170 was issued under authority of Brigadier General Sibley, Department of the Missouri, which returned Ambrose to Harrisburg, PA, and where he was mustered out (discharged) on 28 August 1865.
Above info furnished by: T. Klingensmith and D.R. Baker.
After his discharge, he did not return to his home in Ashe County, NC. Sometime in about 1869, Ambrose married a Mary E. Oden in Montgomery County, MD. Ambrose and Mary had two known children, a son, James Alfred, in about 1874, and a daughter, Gertrude, in about 1878. Mary passed away in September 1882, and while nothing more has been found about these two children, by December 1883, Ambrose had returned to Ashe County, NC, where he married a Charity Francis on 25 December 1883 in Helton, Ashe County, NC, and with whom he had four children, listed below.
Along with thousands of other Civil War veterans, Ambrose filed for a Civil War Veteran's pension on 22 August 1890, Application # 906,830, certificate # 870,095 from Virginia. Upon his death in 1903, his widow, Charity Baker, filed for a widow's pension on 12 April 1903, Application # 712,532, Certificate 566,333 from Virginia.
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Contributor/Maintainer 48280046 is a paternal great-grandson.
DOB taken from 1900 Census
DOD taken from tombstone application
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Private: CO A, 26th North Carolina Infantry (Confederate).
From 10 May 1862 – 20 July 1863. He fought with 26th NC Infantry at the Battle of Gettysburg 1-3 July 1863, including in the so-called "Pickett's Charge." He then deserted from the Confederate Army on 20 July 1863.
Private: CO K, 18th Pennsylvania Cavalry (Union).
Enlisted on 29 February 1864 in Johnstown, PA, and then traveled to Harrisburg, Dauphin County, PA, where he was originally assigned there to CO K, 18th Pennsylvania Calvary.
Because of his former Confederate service, Ambrose was detached to the Department of the Northwest, CO F, 1st U.S. Volunteer Regiment, for eventual duty in the Dakota Territories. He arrived there, via Camp Douglas near Chicago, IL, Milwaukee, WI, Minneapolis, MN, Fort Ridgely, MN, sometime in the late summer or early fall of 1864. Along with about 80 other former Confederate soldiers, they built, using local stone and materials, what was then called Fort Wadsworth, Dakota Territories. The fort is now called Fort Sisseton, South Dakota, and is a South Dakota State Park.
Following the 9 April 1865 surrender at Appomattox Courthouse, VA, on 14 August 1865, Special Order 170 was issued under authority of Brigadier General Sibley, Department of the Missouri, which returned Ambrose to Harrisburg, PA, and where he was mustered out (discharged) on 28 August 1865.
Above info furnished by: T. Klingensmith and D.R. Baker.
After his discharge, he did not return to his home in Ashe County, NC. Sometime in about 1869, Ambrose married a Mary E. Oden in Montgomery County, MD. Ambrose and Mary had two known children, a son, James Alfred, in about 1874, and a daughter, Gertrude, in about 1878. Mary passed away in September 1882, and while nothing more has been found about these two children, by December 1883, Ambrose had returned to Ashe County, NC, where he married a Charity Francis on 25 December 1883 in Helton, Ashe County, NC, and with whom he had four children, listed below.
Along with thousands of other Civil War veterans, Ambrose filed for a Civil War Veteran's pension on 22 August 1890, Application # 906,830, certificate # 870,095 from Virginia. Upon his death in 1903, his widow, Charity Baker, filed for a widow's pension on 12 April 1903, Application # 712,532, Certificate 566,333 from Virginia.
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Contributor/Maintainer 48280046 is a paternal great-grandson.
Son of a (reportedly but undocumented) Ira Baker and a Delilah DeBord/Deboard.
DOB taken from 1900 Census
DOD taken from tombstone application
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Private: CO A, 26th North Carolina Infantry (Confederate).
From 10 May 1862 – 20 July 1863. He fought with 26th NC Infantry at the Battle of Gettysburg 1-3 July 1863, including in the so-called "Pickett's Charge." He then deserted from the Confederate Army on 20 July 1863.
Private: CO K, 18th Pennsylvania Cavalry (Union).
Enlisted on 29 February 1864 in Johnstown, PA, and then traveled to Harrisburg, Dauphin County, PA, where he was originally assigned there to CO K, 18th Pennsylvania Calvary.
Because of his former Confederate service, Ambrose was detached to the Department of the Northwest, CO F, 1st U.S. Volunteer Regiment, for eventual duty in the Dakota Territories. He arrived there, via Camp Douglas near Chicago, IL, Milwaukee, WI, Minneapolis, MN, Fort Ridgely, MN, sometime in the late summer or early fall of 1864. Along with about 80 other former Confederate soldiers, they built, using local stone and materials, what was then called Fort Wadsworth, Dakota Territories. The fort is now called Fort Sisseton, South Dakota, and is a South Dakota State Park.
Following the 9 April 1865 surrender at Appomattox Courthouse, VA, on 14 August 1865, Special Order 170 was issued under authority of Brigadier General Sibley, Department of the Missouri, which returned Ambrose to Harrisburg, PA, and where he was mustered out (discharged) on 28 August 1865.
Above info furnished by: T. Klingensmith and D.R. Baker.
After his discharge, he did not return to his home in Ashe County, NC. Sometime in about 1869, Ambrose married a Mary E. Oden in Montgomery County, MD. Ambrose and Mary had two known children, a son, James Alfred, in about 1874, and a daughter, Gertrude, in about 1878. Mary passed away in September 1882, and while nothing more has been found about these two children, by December 1883, Ambrose had returned to Ashe County, NC, where he married a Charity Francis on 25 December 1883 in Helton, Ashe County, NC, and with whom he had four children, listed below.
Along with thousands of other Civil War veterans, Ambrose filed for a Civil War Veteran's pension on 22 August 1890, Application # 906,830, certificate # 870,095 from Virginia. Upon his death in 1903, his widow, Charity Baker, filed for a widow's pension on 12 April 1903, Application # 712,532, Certificate 566,333 from Virginia.
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Contributor/Maintainer 48280046 is a paternal great-grandson.
DOB taken from 1900 Census
DOD taken from tombstone application
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Private: CO A, 26th North Carolina Infantry (Confederate).
From 10 May 1862 – 20 July 1863. He fought with 26th NC Infantry at the Battle of Gettysburg 1-3 July 1863, including in the so-called "Pickett's Charge." He then deserted from the Confederate Army on 20 July 1863.
Private: CO K, 18th Pennsylvania Cavalry (Union).
Enlisted on 29 February 1864 in Johnstown, PA, and then traveled to Harrisburg, Dauphin County, PA, where he was originally assigned there to CO K, 18th Pennsylvania Calvary.
Because of his former Confederate service, Ambrose was detached to the Department of the Northwest, CO F, 1st U.S. Volunteer Regiment, for eventual duty in the Dakota Territories. He arrived there, via Camp Douglas near Chicago, IL, Milwaukee, WI, Minneapolis, MN, Fort Ridgely, MN, sometime in the late summer or early fall of 1864. Along with about 80 other former Confederate soldiers, they built, using local stone and materials, what was then called Fort Wadsworth, Dakota Territories. The fort is now called Fort Sisseton, South Dakota, and is a South Dakota State Park.
Following the 9 April 1865 surrender at Appomattox Courthouse, VA, on 14 August 1865, Special Order 170 was issued under authority of Brigadier General Sibley, Department of the Missouri, which returned Ambrose to Harrisburg, PA, and where he was mustered out (discharged) on 28 August 1865.
Above info furnished by: T. Klingensmith and D.R. Baker.
After his discharge, he did not return to his home in Ashe County, NC. Sometime in about 1869, Ambrose married a Mary E. Oden in Montgomery County, MD. Ambrose and Mary had two known children, a son, James Alfred, in about 1874, and a daughter, Gertrude, in about 1878. Mary passed away in September 1882, and while nothing more has been found about these two children, by December 1883, Ambrose had returned to Ashe County, NC, where he married a Charity Francis on 25 December 1883 in Helton, Ashe County, NC, and with whom he had four children, listed below.
Along with thousands of other Civil War veterans, Ambrose filed for a Civil War Veteran's pension on 22 August 1890, Application # 906,830, certificate # 870,095 from Virginia. Upon his death in 1903, his widow, Charity Baker, filed for a widow's pension on 12 April 1903, Application # 712,532, Certificate 566,333 from Virginia.
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Contributor/Maintainer 48280046 is a paternal great-grandson.
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