Ferguson joined Mosby's Rangers at the age of 17, enlisting as a private in Co. B of the 43rd VA Battalion Cavalry on November 21, 1863. He is credited with capturing Union Captain Richard Blazer in Jefferson County, WV in November, 1864 after knocking him on the head with a pistol. Ferguson was paroled on April 22, 1865 in Winchester, VA.
After the war, he returned home to Fauquier County, VA and finished his schooling. He preached in the Hillsboro Circuit of the Baltimore Conference for a year and a half and then entered Randolph-Macon College in 1869. He remained a Methodist minister in the Baltimore Conference for the rest of this life, serving circuits in Virginia and in West Virginia, except for a single year in Baltimore. He died March 7, 1904 and is buried in Edge Hill Cemetery in Charles Town, WV.
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