Biography of Andrew L. Ingles - Pulaski Co. VA


ANDREW L. INGLES-son of Thomas and Catharine C. (McCLENAHAN) INGLES, was born in 
Montgomery county, Virginia, February 16. 1846. He entered the Virginia Cavalry, 
Twenty-Fifth Regiment, in March, 1863, and was sent to Fisherville, then 
Lynchburg, where they had a skirmish with the enemy, then to Salem, and down the 
Shenandoah valley, and into Maryland by way of Shepherdstown. He took part in 
the raid on Frederick City, and the retreat, destroying bridges, tearing up 
railroad track, etc., capturing horses and mules, and then marched on Washington 
City. At the time of Lee's surrender he was engaged in Montgomery county in 
beating back Stoneman's men and so continued till the war ended. In Montgomery 
county, November 18, 1874, the marriage vows were recorded of Andrew L. INGLES 
and Julia HARVEY, and the children born to them are five: Thomas, August 1, 
1875; William, November 27, 1877 ; Mary D., August 16, 1879 ; Elrica H., May 17, 
1881 ; Andrew, July 22, 1883. Nathaniel B. and Elrica (ROER) HARVEY were the 
parents of Julia, wife of Mr. INGLES, and she was born in Montgomery county 
March 3, 1851. Mary Ingles, great-grandmother of Andrew L., was captured by the 
Indians at about the time of the French and Indian war, and at the age of 
seventy years taken to one of their villages at the mouth of Kanawha river, She 
was kept prisoner eight months, and then made, her escape, traveling back to 
civilization with a German woman, also escaping. They had for a time an old 
horse, on which they rode alternately, and when they had lost that by accident 
they journeyed on foot. They subsisted on the wild grapes that they could find, 
on corn and on roots, and when Mrs. Ingles came within sight of her battle she 
was so much reduced by starvation and exposure that she could go no further, and 
was found prostrate on the ground. She lived eighteen years after this 
adventure. The occupation of Andrew L. INGLES is farming, and his address is New 
River, Pulaski county, Virginia.


Submitted by Tami Ramsey

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