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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 33. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), The Twelfth Alabama Infantry, Confederate States Army. (search)
mother and sisters good-bye, I joined the company at La Grange, as it passed there on its way to Richmond, reaching that city on the 10th of June. On the 12th day of June, 1861, the company was sworn into service for a period of twelve months. For several days the company was drilled regularly by our accomplished First Lieut., whoand painfully shows how dreadfully this noble band of heroic soldiers had diminished from the eleven hundred and ninety-six which formed the regiment on the 12th of June, 1861. These names deserve to be emblazoned forever on the rolls of fame, and to go down in history with the brave Spartans who fought at Thermopylae. Of thos is heartless and cruel in the extreme. He looks upon his soldiers as mere machines, not human beings, and treats them accordingly. Three years ago to-day, June 12, 1861, my company—The Macon (County, Ala.) Confederates—were enlisted as soldiers in the Provisional Army of the Confederate States, and I became a sworn in voluntee