Ingram's Partisan Rangers

HISTORICAL NOTES:
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.

Ingram had been a member of Quantrill’s command in Missouri. He left Missouri and when travelling in Mexico met George Baker, a farmer from San José on his way to join the Confederate Army. Ingram convinced Baker to return to California and help recruit soldiers for the Confederacy. Ingram’s brother John also lived in San José. FIELD OFFICERS:
Rufus Henry Ingram, Captain
Thomas Bell Poole, Lieutenant
BATTLES: ROSTER: 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.

These men formed the nucleus of Ingram’s unit. The unit operated only during the summer of 1864 in the Santa Clara Valley. In July many of the men were arrested after an attempt at capturing a large payroll from the New Almaden Mines. Poole was indicted for murder and treason, sentenced to death and executed in September 1865. The others were set free. Captain Ingram and George Baker escaped and the California authorities believed they went to Missouri to join the Confederate guerrillas there. BIBLIOGRAPHY:


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REF: https://grayguerrillas.wordpress.com/2011/12/07/no-51-ciw-ch-3-california-ingrams-company-partisan-rangers/