Randolph, Mrs. John. Jly. 26. Warrenton.   R. R. Aug. 6, 1804
(Marriages and Death Notices in Raleigh Register and North Carolina State Gazette 1799-1825. Contributed by Barb. Z.)

Ransom, Mrs. James, Mar., Warren county.   R. R. Mar. 9, 1802
(Marriages and Death Notices in Raleigh Register and North Carolina State Gazette 1799-1825. Contributed by Barb. Z.)

Ransom, Mrs. Robert of Halifax County. June 3. Warren County. R.R. June 10, 1848
(Marriages and Death Notices in Raleigh Register and North Carolina State Gazette 1846-1855)

Name of Deceased: Charlie S. Riggan
Newspaper: The Warren Record
Date: 28 March 1947
Submitters Name: Amy Robbins-Tjaden

Obit: Charlie S. Riggan Dies at Norfolk

Funeral of Confederate Veteran to be held this afternoon at Vaughan, Friday, March 28, 1947. Burial Services for Charlie S. Riggan, last Confederate Veteran of Warren County, will be held at the Vaughan Cemetery this afternoon at 2 o'clock. He would have been 105 years old next October.

Mr Riggan died on Wednesday at Norfolk where he had been spending some time with a son and receiving treatment at a Norfolk hospital. His remains were brought to a Rocky Mount funeral home where services are to be held this morning.

Mr Riggan was born in Warren County and spent nearly all his life near Vaughan, leaving the county only about two years ago to make his home with a son in Nashville. He has been engaged in farming practically all his life.

In October 1942, a celebration was held at Hotel Warren by the United Daughters of the Confederacy in celebration of Mr Riggan's 100th birthday. At that time he was quite active and his hearing and sight were good. A short time after that, his eyesight began to fail and other infirmities set in, although he was able to get about for quite a while fairly actively. For the past several months he had been totally blind.

Three sons, Tom of Castalia, Charles Allen of Norfolk, Va. and Johnnie of Hamlet, one daughter, Mrs Rosa Harper of Richmond, Va., two sisters, Mrs Laura Neal of Embro, and Mrs Emma Dickerson of near Macon, several grandchildren and great-grandchildren, and many nephews and nieces survive Mr Riggan.

Mr Riggan entered the Confederate Army in 1861 at the age of 19. He went to Weldon to enlist with the 30th N.C. Regiment under the command of Col. F.M. Parker of Enfield. After staying at Weldon for six weeks, Mr Riggan went with his command to Wilmington where his training was continued. From there he went to Richmond when the seven days battle started and joined Anderson's Brigade. He served two or three days in this battle, known as the Battle of Cold Harbor, and later participated in the fight at Malvern Hill. He was in the battle of Chancellorsville where Stonewall Jackson was fatally wounded and was near the place where Jackson was shot. He was in Rhodes' Division in Anderson's Brigade, and was with Rose's earlier corps.

Two years before the war ended, Mr Riggan was wounded in the right arm while in the picket line around Richmond and came home and stayed for 30 days. He was also wounded on October 19, 1862, and in 1864, at Cedar Run near Winchester, Virginia. He was shot through the shoulder, the ball striking the back of his neck and ranging downward. This put him out of the service and he came home to remain until about ten days before the surrender at Appomattox. He went back to Richmond and obtained a gun, but could not carry it on account of his wound; the Doctor forbade his going, but he marched on to Appomattox, where the surrender took place.

After the end of the War, Mr Riggan, with thousands of other Confederate soldiers, returned home to begin a new way of life with the fortitude that had been the admiration of the world.

Characterized by the later Confederate John W. Allen of Warrenton as a "human lightning knot", Mr Riggan had attended all the Confederate Reunions except a few at the beginning and won Mr Allen's appellation by his vim and vigor at these reunions, often dancing and frolicking with the ladies at the reunions while more and more of his comrades sought a softer mode of entertainment.

Note: Charlie S. Riggan was laid to rest at the Vaughan Cemetery, Vaughan, North Carolina.