Ransom Plyler
Enlisted as a Private
"I" Co. SC 12th Infantry
Other Information:
born in 1840
died in 1917
Buried: Ebenezer Cemty, Nevada Co., AR
Sources used by Historical Data Systems, Inc.:
- Index to Compiled Confederate Military Service Records
- Various Cemetery listings on the internet
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Ransom Plyler, Private, Company I, 12th Regiment South Carolina Vols., enlisted March 24, 1864 at Lancaster, Court House by Capt. Storer for the war, admitted to the Receiving & Wayside Hospital, Richmond, Va. May 15, gunshot (Minie Ball) wound right arm*, transferred the next day to the Jackson Hospital, Richmond, transferred to C. S. A. General Hospital, Danville, Virginia May, 1864, furloughed May 23, at the 2nd N. C. Hospital, Columbia, S. C. on the July 23, 1864 , receipted for an issue of clothing, recorded on August 31, 1864 as absent, at home on wounded furlough, recommended for light duty October 18, 1864, no further records
* Probably wounded at the Spotsylvania Court House May 12
M267: Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of South Carolina
See also: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~york/12thSCV/I.html
http://www.mosocco.com/southcarolina.html
http://www.petersburgbreakthrough.org/12thSC.htm
http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=12th+south+carolina+infantry&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8
The U. S. Army Military History Institute, Carlisle Barrack, Penn., hold these pertinent documents in their unit bibliography:
U.S. Army Military History Institute
950 Soldiers Drive
Carlisle Barracks, PA 17013-5021
30 Jul 2010
12th South Carolina Infantry Regiment
Bigham, John M. “The 12th South Carolina Volunteer Infantry.” Military Images Magazine
(May/Jun 2001): pp. 23-24. Per.
Caldwell, J.F.J. The History of a Brigade of South Carolinians Known First as "Gregg's," and Subsequently
as "McGowan's Brigade." Dayton, OH: Morningside, 1984 reprint of 1866 edition. 326 p. E577.4.M3.C34.
Crute, Joseph H., Jr. Units of the Confederate States Army. Midlothian, VA: Derwent Books, 1987.
pp. 258-59. E546.C78. (Concise summary of the regiment's service).
Confederate Military History, Extended Edition. Vol. 6: South Carolina. Wilmington, NC: Broadfoot,
1987. 931 p. E484.C65.1987v6. (Contains numerous, scattered references to South Carolina units).
McCrady, Edward. "Formation, Organization, Discipline and Characteristics of the Army of Northern
Virginia," An Address Delivered in the Hall of the House of Delegates, Richmond, VA., Thursday, Oct. 21, 1886. Richmond, VA: Wm Ellis Jones, 1886. 41 p. E173.P18no287.
_____. "Gregg's Brigade of South Carolinians in the Second Battle of Manassas, an Address Before the
Survivors of the Twelfth Regiment South Carolina Volunteers." Southern Historical Society Papers 13 (1885): pp. 3-40. E483.7.S76v13.
_____. "The Twelfth Regiment." Southern Historical Society Papers 16 (1888): pp. 18-22 E483.7S76v16.
Seigler, Robert S. South Carolina’s Military Organizations During the War Between the States. Vol. 3.
Charleston: History Press, 2008. pp. 143-54. E577.4.S45.
Sifakis, Stewart. Compendium of the Confederate Armies: South Carolina.... NY: Facts on File, 1995.
pp. 85-86. E577.S53. (Unit organizational history).
The following pertinent personal papers are in the Institute's Manuscript Archive:
Thomas, W. H., Letter, 1864 – Lewis Leigh Collection (Box C-10)