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Conecuh Guards, Co. E., 4th Alabama (1)

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Conecuh Guards, Co. E., 4th Alabama (1)

Posted: 5 Jul 2006 1:26PM GMT
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History of Conecuh County, Alabama by B.F. Riley 1881

May or may not be complete.

Organized at Sparta on 1 April 1861: mustered at Sparta Depot 24 April 1861; received flag from Ladies of the county; embarked on train with the following commissioned and non-commissioned officersand privates; mustered into the Confederate States Army at Lynchburg, Virginia on 9 April 186?

Bowles, P.D. - Captain, promoted to Major 22 August 1862; Lt. Colonel 30 September 1862; Colonel 3 October 1862; Brigadier Commander C.S.A. 3 April 1865.

Lee, William - Promoted to Captain from 1st Lt. 22 August 1862; wounded at Gaines Farm, Virginia 1862; killed at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania 3 July 1863.

McInnis, Archibald - Promoted to Captain from 1st Lt. 3 July 1863; retired from wounds received at the battle of First Manassas July 1861, and at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania 3 July 1863, and at Cold Harbor, Virginia 1864. Died in Mobile, Alabama since the war.

Darby, James W. - Promoted to Captain from 1st Lt. 1864. Wounded at Gaines Farm 1862, resides in Butler County, Alabama.

Guice, John G. - Promoted 1st. Lt. 22 August 1862. Wounded at First Manassas, Virginia 21 July 1861. Wounded at Gaines Farm, Virginia July 1862. Wounded twice at the second Battle of Manassas August 1862. Lost leg, honorably discharged; resides in Conecuh County, Alabama.

Christian, Alfred - 1st. Lt., wounded second Battle of Manassas, Virginia August 1862. Died in Conecuh County since the war.

Taliaferro, Charles T. - 2nd Lt. Resigned 1862; promoted to assistent surgeon in 1862; promoted to full surgeon 1864; resides in Conecuh County.

Stearns, John S. - 2nd. Lt.; wounded at Knoxville, Tennessee November 1863; wounded at the Wilderness, Virginia 6 May 1864. Died at his home in 1880.

Gatch, Louis - 1st. Sergeant; killed at the First Battle of Manassas, Virginia 21 July 1861.

Green, William - 1st. Sergeant; honorably discharged 1862 on election to the Alabama Legislature, resides in Washington County, Alabama.

Mosley, Andrew J. - 1st. Sergeant, wounded First Battle of Manassas in head and arm; wounded at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania July 1863; wounded at Chickamauga, Georgia September 1863; wounded at Spotsylvania Court House, Virginia 9 May 1864; resides in Falls County, Texas.

Downs, George - 2nd. Sergeant, killed at Chickamauga, Georgia September 1863.

Cotton, James - 4th Sergeant, taken prisioner at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania; remained in prison till the end of the war. Died in the State of Texas since the war.

Richey, Robert - 3rd Sergeant, killed at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania July 1863.

Stinson, Jasper Newton - Promoted to coloe Sergeant July 1862. Killed at the second Battle of Manassas August 1862.

Boulware, Gil R. - Promoted to color Sergeant; wounded at the Battle of Fredricksburg, Virginia September 1862, wounded in side and arm. Right arm amputated at Chickamauga, Georgia September 1863. Resides in Conecuh County.

Spence, Ingram - Sergeant, recruited November 1861. Wounded at Knoxville, Tennessee September 1863. Resides in Conecuh County.

Clark, William D. - Sergeant, recruited November 1861. Wounded at Gaines Farm July 1862. Wounded at Spotsylvania Court House, Virginia 10 May 1864. Resides in Conecuh County.

Dunham, John Q. - Sergeant, wounded at Chickamauga, Georgia September 1863. Died in Madison County, Florida in 1878.

Andrews, James M. - Sergeant, wounded at the first Battle of Manassas, Virginia. Resides in Conecuh County.

Floyd, Alfred H. - 2nd. Sergeant, recruited November 1861. Wounded at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania July 1863. Wounded (lost leg) at the Wilderness, Virginia 6 May 1864. honorably discharged, resides in Texas.

Stahl, Louis - 3rd. Sergeant. Wounded and arm resected at Petersburg, Virginia October 1864. Resides in Marlin, Texas.

Thomas, William - 1st. Corporal. Killed in the first Battle of Manassas, Virginia 21 July 1861.

Briley, Thomas - 1st. Corporal. Killed at Chickamauga, Georgia September 1863.

Richey, James - 1st. Corporal. Killed at Knoxville, Tennessee October 1863.

Roach, Fred G. - 2nd. Corporal. Killed at Petersburg, Virginia 1 April 1865. Last man killed from Company E.

Crosby, William S. - 1st. Corporal. Resides in Conecuh County.

Thomas, Joseph A. - 4th Corporal. Wounded in the first Battle of Manassas, Virginia 21 July 1861. Wounded at Eltham's Landing, Virginia April 1862. Wounded at Gaines Farm, Virginia 1862. Wounded at Fredricksburg, Virginia 1863. Wounded at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania 1863. Resides in Conecuh County.

Anderson, W.F. - 2nd. Corporal. Wounded at Fredricksburg, Virginia. Died at Sparta, Alabama since the war.

Robertson, James - 3rd Corporal. Wounded three times at Sharpsburg, Maryland September 1862. Wounded at the Wilderness, Virginia 6 May 1864. Resides in Conecuh County.

Anderson, George - Recruited in the fall of 1861. Killed in the Battle of Lookout Mountain, Tennessee October 1863.


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