Ramseur, Stephen Dodson

Ramseur, Stephen Dodson

(1837–64) soldier; born in Lincolnton, N.C. A West Point graduate (1860), he joined the Confederate army and fought in the Seven Days' Battles and Malvern Hill. He led a North Carolina brigade at Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, the Wilderness, and Spotsylvania, where his attack drove Union forces from the famous "Bloody Angle." He was mortally wounded in action at Cedar Creek, Va., having learned of the birth of his daughter only the day before.