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Col. O. M. Roberts, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 12.1, Alabama (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 4: (search)
roll of honor of the killed and wounded at Chickamauga, given below; Col. Edwin C. Bullock, one of the leading citizens of Alabama, died in November, 1861: Col. Eli S. Shorter, distinguished at Shiloh; Col. James T. Holtzclaw, who was wounded at Shiloh and afterward became distinguished as a brigadier-general, and Col. James Straw to Corinth, Miss., February 26, 1862. Vol. X, Part I—（383) J. K. Jackson's brigade, Second corps, army of the Mississippi, General Bragg, April 6-7, 1862; Colonel Shorter commanding regiment. (533) Marched Prentiss' captured division to Corinth (General Withers' report). (553-555) Referred to in Gen. J. K. Jackson's report. (557) Colonel Shorter's report, Shiloh, gives 20 killed, 80 wounded. Lieut.-Col. Holtzclaw dangerously wounded while gallantly discharging his duty. (789) Assignment as above, June 30th. Vol. Xv—（850) Army of Mobile, Slaughter commanding; district of the Gulf, commanded by General Forney, October 31, 1862. （1069) Cumming's bri
Col. O. M. Roberts, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 12.1, Alabama (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 5: (search)
e close of the war. Extracts from official war Records. Vol. XVI, Part 1—（257) Mentioned by General Negley (Union) as in the neigborhood of Atlanta, fall of 1862. Vol. XVI, Part 2—（717) Telegram of July 2, 1862, secretary of war to Governor Shorter, Montgomery, says: I will order the Fifty-first Alabama regiment to Chattanooga. （792) Telegram from Governor Shorter, September 2d, to secretary of war, asks for the Fifty-first regiment cavalry to be sent to the southern part of the StateGovernor Shorter, September 2d, to secretary of war, asks for the Fifty-first regiment cavalry to be sent to the southern part of the State. (795) Regiment sent to south Alabama as requested, September 4th. （802) Ordered by Gen. Sam Jones to proceed to Bridgeport and report to General Maxey, September 8th. （857) Gen. Sam Jones says, September 20th: Protection no longer needed in Alabama. Regiment ordered toward Nashville to cooperate with Forrest. （862) Sent to Tullahoma, September 21, 1862. （890) Ordered up near Nashville to cooperate with the troops there, in harassing the enemy and cutting off foraging parties, S
Col. O. M. Roberts, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 12.1, Alabama (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Biographical. (search)
the Alabama convention he voted against secession, and refused to sign the ordinance, which had been printed on parchment; but when it became necessary to raise an army to maintain the position taken by his State he accompanied and assisted Governor Shorter in organizing the cavalry. In the winter, when recruiting became a drag, he raised and organized a company, and went into camp at Loachapoka. With his assistance a regiment was raised. When it was organized he failed to be made colonel anch Alabama held this gallant soldier and honored citizen. Major-General Henry DeLamar Clayton was born in Pulaski county, Ga., March 7, 1827. He was graduated at Emory and Henry college, Virginia, after which he read law under John G. and Eli S. Shorter in Eufaula. In 1849 he was licensed as an attorney, and began the practice of law in Clayton. He devoted himself so completely to business that he kept entirely out of politics until 1857, when he was chosen to represent Barbour county in t