Ward, of Randallstown, Maryland, was killed by the 6th Massachusetts Militia in the Baltimore Riot of April 19, 1861.

[3] After abandoning his studies at Georgetown University, he traveled to South America and the West Indies.

Upon his return to the United States he taught English literature at Poydras College in Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana.

[8] The Randall Memorial Committee of Chapter "A" United Daughters of the Confederacy Augusta, Georgia, dedicated a statue to him there in 1936.

[9] James Ryder Randall Elementary School in Clinton, Maryland, bears his name.