Andrew was the son of Sarah and Harrison Ramsey and moved to Illinois with his parents after 1830.
He enlisted as a volunteer with his father, Harrison, at Alton, Illinois on 21 June 1847.
He served as a Private in Colonel Bissell's Company B 2 IL Foot as a musician and later in Co B 6th IL Foot.
Andrew died of disease contracted while serving in Puebla and was buried in a mass grave outside of Puebla, Mexico.
In 1851, the US Government purchased land for a cemetery in Mexico City and the remains of those buried in Puebla were transferred and reinterred in a common grave in the Mexico City National Cemetery along with about 750 other unidentified soldiers who perished while serving their county.
He enlisted as a volunteer with his father, Harrison, at Alton, Illinois on 21 June 1847.
He served as a Private in Colonel Bissell's Company B 2 IL Foot as a musician and later in Co B 6th IL Foot.
Andrew died of disease contracted while serving in Puebla and was buried in a mass grave outside of Puebla, Mexico.
In 1851, the US Government purchased land for a cemetery in Mexico City and the remains of those buried in Puebla were transferred and reinterred in a common grave in the Mexico City National Cemetery along with about 750 other unidentified soldiers who perished while serving their county.
Andrew was the son of Sarah and Harrison Ramsey and moved to Illinois with his parents after 1830.
He enlisted as a volunteer with his father, Harrison, at Alton, Illinois on 21 June 1847.
He served as a Private in Colonel Bissell's Company B 2 IL Foot as a musician and later in Co B 6th IL Foot.
Andrew died of disease contracted while serving in Puebla and was buried in a mass grave outside of Puebla, Mexico.
In 1851, the US Government purchased land for a cemetery in Mexico City and the remains of those buried in Puebla were transferred and reinterred in a common grave in the Mexico City National Cemetery along with about 750 other unidentified soldiers who perished while serving their county.
He enlisted as a volunteer with his father, Harrison, at Alton, Illinois on 21 June 1847.
He served as a Private in Colonel Bissell's Company B 2 IL Foot as a musician and later in Co B 6th IL Foot.
Andrew died of disease contracted while serving in Puebla and was buried in a mass grave outside of Puebla, Mexico.
In 1851, the US Government purchased land for a cemetery in Mexico City and the remains of those buried in Puebla were transferred and reinterred in a common grave in the Mexico City National Cemetery along with about 750 other unidentified soldiers who perished while serving their county.
Inscription
TO THE HONORED MEMORY
OF 750 AMERICANS
KNOWN BUT TO GOD
WHOSE BONES COLLECTED
BY THEIR COUNTRY'S ORDER
ARE HERE BURIED
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