Alonzo Ridley
Alonzo Ridley, (June 3, 1826 – March 25, 1909) was a 49er, trader, Indian agent, engineer, Undersheriff of Los Angeles County, and Confederate Army officer from California, who led the Los Angeles Mounted Rifles on their march across the Southwestern deserts from California to Texas in 1861.[https://archive.org/details/historyoftularek00mene Eugene L. Menefee and Fred A. Dodge, History of Tulare and Kings Counties, California (Los Angeles: Historic Record Co., 1913).]Robert P. Perkins, [http://members.tripod.com/~azrebel/page14.html Heroes and Renegades: A History of the Arizona Brigade, C.S.A.], accessed March 22, 2011.Wallace E. Smith, This Land was Ours: The Del Valles and Camulos (Ventura, California: Ventura County Historical Society, 1978).
Early life
Ridley was born in 1826 in Bowdoin, Maine. He lived in New England until 1849, when he left Massachusetts for California.[http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fri57 Handbook of Texas Online, Aragorn Storm Miller, "Ridley, Alonzo," accessed January 02, 2017]
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External links
- [http://www.militarymuseum.org/LosAngelesMountedRifles2.html Gene C. Armistead, "California's Confederate Militia: The Los Angeles Mounted Rifles," California and the Civil War, The California Military Museum].
- [https://books.google.com/books?id=as8KfFBoEW0C&dq=alonzo+ridley+california&pg=PA252 Albert Sydney Johnson: Soldier of Three Republics].
- [https://books.google.com/books?id=aOkLAAAAIAAJ&dq=alonzo+ridley+california&pg=PA333 The Confederate Veteran Magazine].
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