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

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in 1864 by Rufus Henry Ingram in

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. They committed the

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and planned other raids before being broken up by the Union authorities. Newspapers of the time reported that Ingram had been a member of Quantrill's guerrilla band, but modern research has failed to confirm that. He came to California via Mexico with the intent of forming a Confederate guerrilla band on the Pacific Coast. After the gang was broken up in several bloody gunfights, Ingram fled California and vanished forever.

Members

* Rufus Henry Ingram, Captain *

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, 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. ohn Boessenecker, Badge and Buckshot: Lawlessness in Old California, pg. 137-138/ref>

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Captain Ingram's Partisan Rangers Bushwhackers Units and formations of the Union Army from California History of Santa Clara County, California Irregular forces of the American Civil War

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