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Enlisted in Co. C, 152nd Indiana Infantry at Kendallville, Noble County, Indiana on February 22, 1865; his enlistment was credited to Smith Township, Whitley County, Indiana; company was organized at Indianapolis and mustered in March 16, 1865; Regiment left the state for Harper's Ferry, West Virginia, on March 18. Was on duty at Charleston, Stevenson's Station, Summit Point, and Clarksburg, West Virginia, until August. The regiment was mustered out August 30, 1865 after losing 49 men by disease. McDonald was recorded as absent at the time of the May and June musters. He served as a private and sergeant major (field and staff)
--letter: 3-page letter of July 24, 1865 written to his family from Camp Piatt, Kanawha County, West Virginia [10 miles below Charleston, West Virginia on the Kanawha River]; letter also names: Summit Point [Jefferson County, West Virginia; 5 miles WSW of Charleston]; Harpers Ferry, Virginia [7 miles ENE of Charleston]; Grafton, Virginia [Taylor County]; Parkersburg, Virginia [on Ohio River 12 miles SSW of Marietta, Ohio]; Gallipolis, Ohio [Gallia County]; Charleston, West Virginia [Kanawha County]; refers to having traveled on steamship “Golden Era”; No pension file has been found for Ranald McDonald. He was born about 1847 in Allegheny County, PA. A sister was Mary J. (McDonald ) Miller, who lived in Custer County, NE after 1883 until her death in 1916.
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