Captain Ingram's Partisan Rangers
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Captain Ingram's Partisan Rangers was the name given by the Sacramento Union
to a band of about fifty Confederate
Bushwackers organized from local Copperheads
and members of the Knights of the Golden Circle
in 1864 by Rufus Henry Ingram
in Santa Clara County, California
. They committed the Bullion Bend Robbery and planned other raids before being broken up by the Union authorities.
Sacramento Union
The Sacramento Union was a daily newspaper founded in 1851 in Sacramento, California. It was the oldest daily newspaper west of the Mississippi River before it closed its doors after 143 years in January 1994, no longer able to compete with The Sacramento Bee, which was founded in 1857, just six...
to a band of about fifty Confederate
Confederate States of America
The Confederate States of America was a government set up from 1861 to 1865 by 11 Southern slave states of the United States of America that had declared their secession from the U.S...
Bushwackers organized from local Copperheads
Copperheads (politics)
The Copperheads were a vocal group of Democrats in the Northern United States who opposed the American Civil War, wanting an immediate peace settlement with the Confederates. Republicans started calling anti-war Democrats "Copperheads," likening them to the venomous snake...
and members of the Knights of the Golden Circle
Knights of the Golden Circle
The Knights of the Golden Circle was a secret society. Some researchers believe the objective of the KGC was to prepare the way for annexation of a golden circle of territories in Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean for inclusion in the United States as slave states...
in 1864 by Rufus Henry Ingram
Rufus Henry Ingram
Rufus Henry Ingram was a bushwhacker that led Captain Ingram's Partisan Rangers that operated in California in 1864.In 1863, Rufus Henry Ingram met George Baker from San Jose, California, who had just come east to join the Confederate Army. Baker complained because the secessionists in California...
in Santa Clara County, California
Santa Clara County, California
Santa Clara County is a county located at the southern end of the San Francisco Bay Area in the U.S. state of California. As of 2010 it had a population of 1,781,642. The county seat is San Jose. The highly urbanized Santa Clara Valley within Santa Clara County is also known as Silicon Valley...
. They committed the Bullion Bend Robbery and planned other raids before being broken up by the Union authorities.
Members
- Rufus Henry Ingram, Captain
- Thomas Bell PooleThomas Bell PooleThomas Bell Poole, Under-sheriff of Monterey County, member of the Knights of the Golden Circle serving as a crewman of the Confederate privateer J. M. Chapman. He was later a leader of Captain Ingram's Partisan Rangers and was captured and tried for killing a Deputy Sheriff following the Bullion...
, Lieutenant - George Baker
- John Creal Bouldware
- John Clenndenning
- Wallace Clenndenning
- George Cross
- James Frear
- Thomas Frear
- Joseph W. Gamble
- John Gately
- Alban H. Glasby
- Jim Grant
- Preston C. Hodges
- John Ingram
- Henry I. Jarboe
- Washington Jordan
- John A. Robinson
- James Wilson.