Contributed by L. Danley
Source: History of Clarke County, AL, by John Simpson Graham 1923
old veterans records in their own words
FENDLEY,
Joseph Harvey; Fulton, enlisted Mar 28 1862 at Bethel in Co B, 38th
Al Reg. Was in the following battles; Chicamauga, Lookout Mt, Missionary
Ridge, Dalton, Resaca, New Hope Church, Jonesboro, Peach Tree Creek, Atlanta,
Franklin, Nashville, Spanish Fort, & Blakely. slightly wounded at Chicamauga;
never taken prisoner; made Lt after battle od Chicamuaga; paroled at Meridian,
Ms, home on May 17 1865;Was Married on Jul 6th to Harriet De Witt; bought
a home on 20th July 1865 on Bassett’s Creek, ordained in 1869 as Baptist;
had 9 children- 4 boys 5 girls;; now in 88th year, wife in 79th.(born
Dec 26 1836 Pine Hill, Al)
BURGE, Charles
Woodwin, near Thomasville; enlisted in Mar 1862 in Al State Troops,
Co, A Derusha Daffin was Captain; Isaac Grant, 1st Lt; John C Foscue 2d Lt;
George F Fountain 3d Lt; John H Highley Colonel; was honorably discharged;
Sep 1863 enlisted in Wirt Adam;s Cavalry, served until the surrender. Was
in the Battles Of Brownsville, Franklin, Decatur, Bear Creek, Yazoo City,
Port Gibson, Little Sypsy River. Born Apr 4 1846 near Jackson, Clarke Co,
AL.
HENLEY Louis
Benjamin; Fulton, Born May 12 1845 in Grove Hill, Clarke Co, Al; Enlisted
in Co $ 21st Al Reg at Point Clear, Baldwin Co. D C Anderson was Colonel;
was with regiment at Ft Gaines when the Yankee fleet ran into Mobile Bay.
Col. Anderson surrendered the fort and his men, they were taken to New Orleans
and kept there 2 mos, then taken to Ship Island, kept there 2 mos; was exchanged
in Mobile Bay on January 1 1864, given 75 day furlough; after furlough expired
went back to Mobile; regiment reorganized and send across the bay and joined
to Holtzclaw’s brigade; went down to Holloywood and met the Yankee army,
then fell back to the breastworks at Spanish Fort; fought the Yankees 12
days & nights, when the place was evacuated; waded through the marsh
up to Blakely, thence to Mobile by steamer; remained in Mobile a few days,
then went to Meridian, Miss, and there paroled.
MCCASKEY,
T H, Fulton - born in Clarke Co May 22 1838; age now 85 yrs. Enlisted in
March 1861 in Natchitoches La, in Co 5, 3d Louisiana Reg; was in the following
battles; Springfield Mo; Elkhorn Ark; Iuka Miss; where wounded and taken
prisoner; was in battle at Vicksburg, Miss and Spanish Fort; was in several
skirmishes; was paroled at Meridian Miss May 10 1865
BREWER,
J W, Coffeeville - was born in Wilcox Co on Nov 24 1840. Will be 83 yrs on
24 of next month. Joined Joe Robins’ cavalry co. Co C, 3d Ala Reg at
Clifton, on the Alabama river; company met at Choctaw Corne, went to Grove
Hill and ate dinner, then to Jacksn, crossed the river there and went to
Mobile, and were sworn into service, then sent to Grand Bay; stayed there
until March, went to Corinth and stayed awhile, then to another place (forgotten
name); then to Shiloh, where we had our big fight; was in battle of Chicamauga;
was wounded at Rocky Fall Mountain Feb 24 1864 and was not sent to front
anymore, was put on provost duty at Macon Ga and remained there until the
close of war. (Mr Brewer says he lived 2 yrs in Wilcox Co, (Pine Hill) after
the war, coming to Clarke Co in 1867, and has lived here since. He also states
that he was in Wheeler’s brigade; got transferred to Co B 38th Al Reg.
Rip Welch was captain of Co B and he was killed in the Chicamauga fight.
Brewer says that he had a brother killed and one wounded at the battle of
Chicamauga)
OTT, Richard,
Campbell- was born in Dale co in 1844; moved to Clarke Co when about 14 yrs
and has been here since. Enlisted in the war in 1864; went to Mobile with
Captain Girard, and from there was send to Montgomery; stayed there awhile
and took erysipelas in his arm and was sent home two months before war
closed.
DRINKARD,
G W Thomasville - was born in Marengo Co Apr 23 1837; lived there until 1857;
them moved to Clarke Co; volunteered inCapt Powers’ company, Co K, 23d
Al Inf; served through the war; was taken prisoner at Port Gibson on May
2 1863 and was carried to Alton, Ill and kept there until last of June 1863,
enchanged at City Point, near Richmond, Va; was in the following battles;
Port Gibson, Holly Springs, Missionary Ridge, Lookout Mountain, Chattanooga,
Rock Face Mt, Atlanta, Ga; Franklin, Tenn; Nashville, Tenn; Bentonvile, N
C.
BEDWELL,
John D Coffeeville - was born in Mississippi Feb 5 1841 and lived there 13
yrs, then moved to Clarke where he has since resided. Enlisted in Mobile
in Co B, 22d Ala Reg; was in service 4 yrs; never wounded or taken prisoner,
served until surrender
ROCKER,
W E, Alma- enlisted in Sep 1862, in Co A, 38th al Reg; W J Herrin was Captain
of the company. His service was in Tenn, Ala & Ga; was in following battles,
Chicamauga, Missionary Ridge, Rock Face Mt; in the big battle of Atlanta;
after that the army divided, some going ease, some going west. Rocker went
west, crossed the Chattahoochee river below Rome, Ga and marched through
the northern part of Ala crossed the Tenn river at Florence Ala and started
north to Nashville, Tenn; went from there to Franklin; having numerous skirmishes
on the way and a fierce but short battle at Franklin, but Rocker says they
routed the Federal army and chased them to Nashville. Then came a heavy snow
and the could not move the artillery and wagons. The enemy reinforced their
army and made fight again, and we retreated, falling back to Corinth, Miss.
From Cornith they went to Mobile, then Blakely and then to Spanish Fort;
was at Spanish Fort at its downfall. He was not wounded or taken prisoner.
Rocker was born Sept 12 1843;
SMITH, C
L, Chance, was born in northern part of Clarke Co, where the PO Chance now
is; enlised under Ben Anderson of Whatley on Apr 15 1862 at age of 15 yrs
afterward put in the 38th Reg, Co D; was drilled around Mobile for abt 10
mos. and then sent to Tenn, where they began to fight immediately, under
General Braxton Bragg. Mr Smith says they were afterward put under command
of Gen. Joseph E Johnston, who, with great skill & dauntless courage,
led them to bictory in many places . The reached Atlanta and had some hard
fighting. Smith was wounded in head on Aug 5 1864. He says he did not do
anymore soldiering. He says the Gen Hood took army from Atlanta to Franklin,
Tenn and thee the south lost thousands of brave and good men. At Resaca our
colors were twice shot down and picked up by Colonel R A Lankford of 38th
Ala Reg. and there we lost some of the best blood of the south. I
have lived in Clarke Co all my life. Mr Smith says he was 15 yrs when he
joined the army in 1862, therefore he must have been born in 1847.
BRANDENBURG,
Martin E Scyrene- enlisted in Co A 38th Ala Reg at Suggsville, Mar 22 1862.
William Herrin was captain of Co A and _____Ketchen was colonel of regt.
was n following battles, Chacamauga, Atlanta, Dalton, Resaca, Jonesboro,
Missionary Ridge, Nashville, Franklin, Lookout Mountain, and New Hope church;
was captured at Nashville and carried to Camp Chase, Ohio prison and kept
there until close of war; was born in Clarke Co in 1843 and now lives within
a mile of where he was born; was married in 1866; his wife is still living;
they have 13 children all of whom are married and away from home.
WIGGINS,
John Collins, Dickinson - enlised in Home Guards in May 1861 at Tallahatta
Springs, and drilled under Col Ben Foster, then joined the Dickinson Guards
at Grove Hill Oct 15 1861, which was Co E 24th Ala Reg (known as Thomas I
Kimbell’s Co); in May 1862 joing as Confederate soldier, the second
time belonging to State troops, and last time in regular army; first battle
was Murfreesboro, Tenn; then Resaca, Ga, then captured at Atlanta Ga off
the picket line together with Lut Stephen, P Chapman, Sergeant Billy Calhoun,
Duge Stewart, Pink H Pogue, Lane & Ben Bumpers and Billy Hall, and carried
to Camp Chase; there released Jun 11 1865; never wounded; born 6 miles above
Lower Peach Tree, Oct 5 1842 and moved to Clarke Co in 1859.
PIPPIN E
(now in Baldwin Co) enlisted in 1862, town called Skipperville, Dale Co Ala
in Co E, 59th Ala Reg; I was first under Gen. Grace, who was the bigadier
general and Gen Buckner was division general; stayed in East Tennessee for
nearly a year; then the battle at Chicamauga, the 19,20,& 21st of Sep
1863; then back under Gen Longstreet to Va; then battle at Knoxville, Tenn;
we wintered in Bristol, Tenn; early 1864 went to Richmond Va; Next fight
at Drewry’s Bluff, Va; on Jun 17 to fight at Petersburg, VA; then into
the ditches for nearly 9 mos on the 17 day of June 1864, and came out on
14th of March 1865; on March 25 1865 to battle at Hatcher’s Run, Va;
there I was captured and takend to Pine Lookout, Md and paroled on June `
27 1865; never wounded; came to Clarke Co in 1874 lived there until 1922,
then moved to Baldwin Co, Ala
HOLDER,
Willis, Jackson - was born in Clarke Co Sept 16 1846; worked on gunboats
at Oven Bluff in Cl Co from Jun 1863 until Jan 10 1865, Lt Blackford being
in charge of the work.
TUCKER,
William S, Whatley - was born Dec 30 1846 in Warren Co, N C; enlisted at
Lower Peach Tree, in Wilcox Co about 10 Apr 1864; went from there to dalton
Ga, joined Co B, 38th Al reg; was with his command in all the battles; was
wounded at Marietta Ga and in hospital about 10 days; then went into siege
at Atlanta Ga for month, was flanked out of that place by the Yankess and
went with Hood to Tenn where they were defeated, returned to Tupelo, Miss;
then to Mobile; then to Spanish Fort, captured there and paroled at Vicksburg
abt May 1 1865.
DEWITT,
R J W, near Jackson - born in Dec 11 1840 in Pine Hill, Wilcox Co, Ala; moved
to Clarke in 1857; enlisted in Co E, 32 Ala Reg in 1862; Alexander McKinstry
was colonel and Harry Maurrey was lt col; Bandy Kilpatrick was captain; was
in every battle which his regiment was engaged from enlistment to close of
war; Chicamauga, Murfreesboror, Lookout Mountain, Missionary Ridge, Luverne,
Resaca, Dalton, New Hope Church, Stone Mountain, Atlanta, Jonesboro, Franklin,
Nashville, & Spanish fort; he surrendered in Lauderdale Springs, Miss
FRIDDLE
Daniel Louis, Jackson - was born 13 miles south of Greenville, Ala (Butler
Co) Jan 11 1845; joined in Dec 1861 at Greenville Ala; joined the cavalry
in 1862 at Montgomery, Ala under Capt Sanderson in 1863 in Co I, Ala Reg;
according to records kept by Adam C whetstone of his brigade, he fought in
117 battles; in Ala, Ga; Tenn; & Miss, was shot 11 times, though wounds
were slight, and was captured in service. paroled Apr 25 1865
GRAYSON
A H, Bashi- was born Nov 25 1844 near Springhill, Marengo Co, Ala; enlisted
in Clarke Co 1863, in 6th Ala Cav, Co H; W G Campbell was captain; C H Colven,
colone; Gen James H Clanton’s brigade; never wounded or captured.
PRITCHETT,
G Thomasville - born in Wilcox Co Jan 25 1848; enlisted at Greenville, Ala
Jan 23 1865 in state troops; wounded at Columbus, Ga on Apr 16 1865; taken
prisoner and in hospital at Columbus for 4 weeks PUGH Joh Elijah, Grove Hill
- born 2 1/2 miles NW of Grove Hill Ala Apr 4 1844; enlist in summer of 1862
at Montgomery; served with Co I 5th Al Reg; struck by bullet onece; during
battle of Gettysburg a bullet struck his pack, went thru his blanket, fly
tent, and lodged in his oilcloth, it knocked him down; never taken
prisoner.
SMITH H
H, Salitpa - born in 1846 Dale Co; enlisted in Co A Ala Reg in 1862; captain
McCray; George Newman 1st Lt; Mile Holmes 2nd Lt; later transferred to Co
E, Capt Vaughn; was in battle of New Hope Church, at New Hope Ga and shot
through clothes & blankets; also in battle of Spanish for, Tensaw River
Landng; was captured at Tensaw river landng and sent to Vicksburg, Miss and
from there to his old command at New Hope Ga until the surrender.
ANDERSON,
T J Dickerson - was born near Dixon’s Mills, Marengo Co, Jan 29 1844;
came to Clarke when very young; enlisted in Apr 1862; was wounded at Chicamauga
Sep 20 1863; battles Rocky Face Mountain, Resaca, New Hope Church, captured
at Atlanta Ga Jul 22 1864; was in Co E 38th Ala Reg, Gen Holtzclaw’s
brigade, Stuart’s division of Tenn; discharged at Camp Chase, Ohio June
12 1865
DAVIS William
Moses, Nettleboro-born on line between Clarke & Wilcox (was reared in
Clarke) Aug 14 1841; enlisted in Co K, 23d Al Reg, commanded by Col Frank
Beck; was never wounded or taken prisoner; was in about 10 battles the last
being at Bentonville, NC; stacked arms at Salisbury NC abt Apr 6 1865
SHEPARD,
J W Coffeeville- born near Eufaula, Barber Co, Ala Oct 23 1843; enlisted
in Co K (Poe’s Co), Col Beck’s reg. Pettus’ brigade,
Stephenson’s division; and Johnston’s corps,near Atlanta,
Ba; was wounded at Missionary Ridge and taken prisoner at Nashville, Tenn.
LITTLE O
M near Jackson - was born Sep 10 1845 in Dale Co; reared in Clarke enlisted
in Co J (38th Ala Reg) Rufus Lankford Colonel; Charles Bursey captain; in
March 1864; was wounded slightly in leg and head; was in battles at Rocky
Face Mountain, Spanish Fort, Jonesboro and Franklin; paroled in May 1865
STRINGER
A R, Grove Hill - born abt 10 miles north of Jackson, near Old Union Feb
14 1845; enlisted in Co F, 21st Ala Reg, May 20 1861; his captain was Benjamin
Franklin Dade from Baldwin Co; battles Shiloh, Fort Morgan and Spanish Fort
PUGH, Walter
S, Grove Hill; enlisted at age 16 yrs in Co E 24th Ala Reg in Mobile on Oct
181861; served 13 months in Gen Bragg’s army and being a non conscript
was honorably discharged; was not engaged in any battles while a member of
this command. Enlisted in Co I, Woods’ cavalry on Sep 21 1863; and served
until close of war; was surrendered by Gen Dick Taylor near Gainesville,
Ala where he received his parole; was engaged in quite a number of little
cavalry fights, nearly all being in Miss.
BURROUGHS,
Dr Bryan, Jackson - early in 1863 I considered volunteering in Va army, I
was 16 yrs; Those having authrity over me thought it best I have some training
in art of war; sent to University of Ala which was officers’ training
camp; in June 1864 sent to Montgomery; camped on the Coosa; we were ordered
to Blakely, Spanish Fort & Saluda Hills where Gov Thomas Watts ordered
the entire militia of state; we drilled this large body of boys 16-18 and
men from 45-50 during Jul, Aug & Sep; The Yankees did not land an army
to march to Montgomery, but mosquitoes invaded our camp, nearly all cadets
had malarial fever and typhoid fever. we were 285 strong; reduced by 30-40
by sickness; ordered back to Montgomery, given furloughs home and to report
back to Tuscaloosa for service and we served until Apr 1; exchanged volleys
with Yankees during Claxton’s raid; withdrawn and marched to Marion,
Ala and disbanded as the university had been burned and Gen Lee had
surrendered.
ODOM J B,
Allen - says his record is same as Dr Burroughs.
MATHEWS
Elijah, Grove Hill - born 3 miles SW of Grove Hill on Dec 13 1841; enlisted
Mar 4 1861 in Co I, Wirt Adams’ cavalry; never wounded or taken
prisoner
DAVIS, H
C Chance- born in Clarke Co 1843 on Nov 29 near lower peach tree; enlisted
in Co B 38th Al Reg under Captain W R Welch at Yellow Bluff on the Ala River;
Col Ketchman in command; was in battles, Chicamauga, Sep 19-20 1863; Missionary
Ridge; Resaca, Ga; New Hope Church, Atlanta, Ga; Columbus, Tenn; Nashville,
Tnn; Spanish Fort; was never prisoner; slightly wounded once at Spanish Fort
Apr 1865; discharged May 15 1865 at Livingston
MONK, Angus,
Grove Hill- born in Henry Co Aug 7 1847; enlisted in army at Pollard Ala
in Co A 4th Ala Reg; slightly wounded in forehead
CHAPMAN
E M, Grove Hill- born near Grove Hill Dec 20 1846; enlisted in State Troops
Aug 6 1864; stationed at Mobile & Blakely for 2 mos; had pneumonia and
was sent home; Enlisted again Co I, Wirt Adams’ cavalry, Woods’
regiment and was with that command until laid down arms, never wounded or
taken prisoner.
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