Stephen Ramsay

Stephen Ramsay was a Confederate cavalryman during the Great War.

At the outbreak of the war in 1914, Ramsay's unit was posted to Sequoyah. His first taste of combat was a raid into Kansas in August, where his company was successful in demolishing railway tracks but lost a third of its strength to a single armoured car.

During the slow retreat through northern Sequoyah in 1915 Ramsay's unit fell back into Okmulgee, the capital of the Creek nation. The resident Indians persuaded Captain Hiram Lincoln to stand and fight; the Confederate Cavalry and local Creek warriors beat off the US attack. Shortly after, Ramsay found himself a captain in the Creek Nation Army and a mentor of sorts to his new soldiers.

Despite holding off the under-resourced Americans throughout most of 1915, the Creek leaders wanted all their prewar territory back, and ordered the Creek Army to retake US positions. The resulting offensive saw Ramsay and most of his men killed by machine-gun fire.