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08-06-2012, 11:50 PM (This post was last modified: 08-06-2012 11:54 PM by Craig Hipkins.)
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RE: Mortimer Bainbridge Ruggles
An interesting post here. Lt. Mortimer Bainbridge Ruggles was actually half-yankee! His father Daniel Ruggles was from Barre Massachusetts (where I went to high school)
Daniel Ruggles married a southern lady, and took up the cause of the Confederacy. He was one of only a few Confederate Generals who was born in the north. Another one of note was General John C. Pemberton who surrendered Vicksburg to Grant. He was from Pennsylvania.
The Ruggles were a prominent family in Barre. The elementary school there is called Ruggles Lane, has been for as long as I remember. A cousin of Daniel Ruggles married my G-G-G Grandparents in Barre back in 1852!
Just a little tidbitSmile

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Mortimer Bainbridge Ruggles - Laurie Verge - 08-06-2012, 03:22 PM
RE: Mortimer Bainbridge Ruggles - Craig Hipkins - 08-06-2012 11:50 PM
RE: Mortimer Bainbridge Ruggles - Gene C - 08-09-2012, 09:04 AM
RE: Mortimer Bainbridge Ruggles - RJNorton - 08-09-2012, 11:54 AM
RE: Mortimer Bainbridge Ruggles - RJNorton - 08-09-2012, 12:34 PM

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