. History of the Fifth West Virginia Cavalry, formerly the Second Virginia Infantry, and of Battery G, First West Va. Light Artillery . a descendant of the Philadelphia Quakers,was killed on the railroad between Johnstown and HoUidaysburgh, Pa.,in 1837. His mother was a native of Stoystown, Pa., and soon afterthe death of her husband migrated with her two little boys to the south-eastern part of Maryland, where she married a Airginia carpenter, withwhom she followed up the construction of the Chesapeake and Ohiocanal, and then the extension of the B. & O. railroad, west of Cumber-land. Mr. Rin
. History of the Fifth West Virginia Cavalry, formerly the Second Virginia Infantry, and of Battery G, First West Va. Light Artillery . a descendant of the Philadelphia Quakers,was killed on the railroad between Johnstown and HoUidaysburgh, Pa.,in 1837. His mother was a native of Stoystown, Pa., and soon afterthe death of her husband migrated with her two little boys to the south-eastern part of Maryland, where she married a Airginia carpenter, withwhom she followed up the construction of the Chesapeake and Ohiocanal, and then the extension of the B. & O. railroad, west of Cumber-land. Mr. Ringler learned the printing trade before reaching hismajority and applied himself to the improvement of his education. Hegrew up a strong pro-slavery Democrat, and held a military commissionunder Governor Henry A. Wise, of Virginia, but with the first acts ofsecession, he took a decided stand for the Union and was probably thefirst man in Harrison county, \a., to procure names for the Union ser-vice. He sought the first opportunity of becoming a soldier, a desirethat had haunted him from boyhood, and became a member of Captain. JACOB G. MATLICK.
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