Andrew J. Ansell
Updated August 8, 2013.
KNOTTS ISLAND CIVIL WAR SOLDIERS
From Jane Brumley.
| Andrew J. Ansell Jonathan Ansell Samuel Ansell William Ansell Caleb Beasley Joachium Beasley, Merrimac Jesse Bowden John Bowden Tully Capps Walter V Dudley William J Simpson William G. Simpson William Smith Caleb Spratt |
Thomas Spratt Allan Waterfield Alexander Waterfield Corey Waterfield David Waterfield Henry Waterfield Jarvis Waterfield Jesse Waterfield John Waterfield John E Waterfield John J Waterfield Joseph Waterfield Leaven Waterfield |
Malachi James Waterfield Martin Waterfield Samuel J Waterfield Walter A Waterfield James Ward Edward Ward Caleb White Edmond White Henry White Jesse C White, SGT, Rangers William H White John H Whitehurst Christopher Wicker W Wicker |
August 8, 2013. Andrew J. Ansell (1843-1907) son of William Ansell and Ann Beasley (sister of Sarah Ann Ansell Bowden) enlisted on Aug 8, 1861, Oak Grove, Norfolk Co for one year as a pvt with Capt. John W.M. Hopkins, Wilson's Battalion, Virginia Infantry. One year later mustered out and transferred to Company B. Virginia 61st Infantry Regiment. By Nov 1862 he was in Chimborazo hospital, Richmond, Va, with bronchitis and dysentery. Returned to duty and was taken prisioner in Petersburg, Va. He was exchanged Mar 28, 1865, returning to Co. B. At the end of the war he was paroled Apr 25, 1865. This means he signed the oath to United States.
July 6, 2013. The Pungo Rangers. From the book "Princess Anne County, Virginia: Its Contributions and Sacrifices to The War Between The States" by Kenneth Harris
In the Fall of 1862, John T. Caffee and David H. Bright had been
in Princess Anne County with a company of about fifty or so men
known as the Pungo Rangers. They were acting as a Partisan Home
Guard unit wreaking havoc on patrolling Yankee regiments in the
County. However, they were not yet mustered into the Confederate
army. This would soon change. Caffee’s company consisted of such
men as, Caleb and William White of Knotts Island, Virginius Land
who resided near Kempsville, Solomon and Jesse Caffee of Pungo
Ridge, Jesse and James Caffee of Nanneys Creek, Gideon Willkerson,
Johnathan, Samuel, and William Ansell, Tully Capps, William J. and
William G. Simpson, William Smith, Jarvis, Corey, John, David, and
John J. Waterfield, along with James and Edward Ward, all from
Knotts Island. Martin Grimstead, and Wilson Dudley both from Back
Bay, Elzy Morse of Morse Point, William Munden of Princess Anne,
William Shipp who resided near the Princess Anne Courthouse,
Theophulas Bartee who lived between Kempsville and the Princess
Anne Courthouse, Theoderic Moore of Pungo Ridge, William Carroll
of Blackwater, James Brinson, William “Bill” Parker, and Luke Hill
also from Princess Anne. All of these men were by conscript either
too old or too young to enlist in the regular Confederate army,
and would later become part of Burroughs’ Battalion Partisan
Rangers Company A.