From Military History Online 14th North Carolina Infantry.
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Sgt. Ivy Ritchie has the distinction of being the last Confederate soldier killed on the day of Robert E. Lee surrendered on April 9, 1865. Imagine fighting the entire war and being killed on the last day of it for your unit. That is hard to take.
About the sergeant:
** Born 1839 to Charles and Margaret Ritchie in Montgomery County, N.C., (now Stanly County) and was a framer prior to 1861.
** Enlisted as a private in the Stanly Marksmen, the first unit from Stanly County, on May 5, 1861. Marched out of Albemarle as young women stood on the second floor hotel balcony singing the state song, "The Old North State."
** Assigned to the 14th North Carolina Infantry Regiment, Company H and remained in that unit for the duration of the war.
--Old Secesh
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