My brother's name is Richard Ross IV. my father is Richard Ross III. his father is II. it skipped a few generations, but the first Richard Ross was a Scotsman and civil war veteran. He fought in the Crimean War as well as the Civil. He was in Scott's 900, and fought and survived Antietam. Not sure what other battles he saw. He was captured on two separate occasions and escaped both times. When he was initially captured, he was taken away and allowed to stay in the home of a relative of President Polk. This Polk was a Mason, and invited Sergeant Ross to stay at his home because he saw Ross had a Mason pin on his uniform. We have a document hanging in our home, I think its an official note of his promotion to sergeant. He has a small mention in this book, wherein i found his picture (my avatar pic): https://www.amazon.com/Story-Cavalry...=UTF8&qid=&sr=
my mother was interested in genealogy and found this all a while ago