18. Ralph W. YOUNG
(3) was born on 2 May 1824 in Lincolnville,
Maine. He died on 1 May 1863 in Fredericksburg, VA. !Civil War Records - On
May 3, 1863 at 11:00 am the 6th Infantry were positioned in front of the strongest
part of the Confederate works on Marye's Heights at Fredericksburg. Lt. Col.
Harris wrote, "Silent. cool, and determined ... my men rushed steadily on,
and routing the
enemy from behind the stone wall, at the point of the bayonet, pressed on for
the rifle pit without a halt and without firing a shot. Hotter and hotter waxed
the fire of the enemy. As we neared the rifle-pit the fire of the enemy reached
its greatest fury and did the most fearful
execution. It was here that those gallent officers -- Captains Young, Ballinger,
and Gray -- fell, fighting like brave and true men, as they were ..." He
was married to Martha E. HOWARD on 2 Feb 1851 in Rockland, Knox, Maine. Pension
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19. Martha E. HOWARD was born in 1835
in Boston, Suf.(4) Children were:
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Charlotte Bartlett E. YOUNG.
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George W. YOUNG was born in 1858.