The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-02-02

ed the Federal stockade in Madison County, capturing eighty prisoners and an immense quantity of provistons. In July the Federal General. Rousseau, passed down the Coosa River with nearly two thousand men, tore up the railroads and burned the drpots about Loachapoka Auburn and Opelika, but the citizens and youth who formed the State reserves drove him away into Georgia.
 In September. General Forrest captured Athens with many horses and fourteen hundred Federals under Colonel Camp bell. and defeated the detachment sent for relief. he captured Sulphur Trestl, two days later with eight hundred and twenty men and large number of horses and wagons.
 To direct attention and troops from
 Mobile, General James H. Wilson started
 from Lauderdale County in 1865 with thir-
 teen thousand five hundred troops In
 three divisions. under Generals McCook.
 Long and Upton. Generals Roddy ano
 Forrest were to harass and check him.
 Several engagements failed to stop the
 overwhelming Federal forces. The rolling
 mills and collieries, with much other
 property about Montevalio were destroy
 ed. Colonel Croxton turned aside to Tus-
 caloosa, entered it April A. burnt the
 University. destroyed the foundries and
 factories and all other public property
 turned west and was whipped Dy Gen
 eraf Wirt Adams at Pleasant Ridge in
 Greene County. General Adams. misin-
 formed, proceeded to Columbus. Miss,
 where he hoped again to encounter Crox-
 ton. Croxton, however, marched north- east to the capture of Talladega, and then on toward Jacksonville, skirmishing here and there with such struggling forces as the Confederates could muster.
 General Wilson reached Selma April and threw his veterans against the city Forrest was in command of the defenses, but he had less than seven thousand men, and many of these were inexperi- enced recruits. The Federals swept away all opposition and captured Selma; brave hearts bravely resisted, but to no avail; CTS were taken. Here again indiscriminate pillage was permitted. The Confederate arsenal and foundries were destroyed and General Wilson marched on to Mont gomery. which he entered without Oppo- sition. on April 12. Among the wrecks of his visit is to be numbered the burn ing of the files of The Montgomery Ad-
 vertiseE thus trying to blot out the glorious records of the people of Alabama during the most gigantic struggle of the century.
 On April 16. General LaGrange with three thousand men attacked the small and convalescents in Fort Tyler. near West Point. on the edge of Chambers County. General Tyler in command of the fort was slain, Captain Gonzalez. his successor. was mortally wounded; Captain Parhan, the next in command, displayed equal courage. but the Fed erals scaled the walls and tore down | the Confederate flag from its last strong hold, the attack on ColuInbus Ga., of | the same date having closed a little ear | fer in the day. Thus Alabama cradfed | the birth and watched the last struggle | If the Confederate States of America.
 The young artillerist, the gallant Pel- | nam" who was killed by a shelf at Kel- | v's Ford on the Rappahanpock, March F, | S63. was Aabama's beloved soldier boy.
 Of Confederate Generals 1t may be said | hat John B. Gordon enlisted as Captain | # the Highland Dragons, the "Raccoon | Roughs" of Jackson County. R. E. Rodes | led one division of Jackson's corps at | Chancellorsville sending panic into the | ines of Hooker; commanded the troops If D. H. Hill after the death of Hill, | md was complimented by Lees sending | special officer 70 commend his conduct | at Gettysburg; ne died from a shcr | wound at Winchester.
 James Longstreet, Josiah Gorgas, W. W. Allen. Daniel Leadbetter. Cullen A. Battle, James Cantey. J. G. Hoitzciaw, ames H. Clanton. Henry D. Clayton, | md many other AlHbamians won the yeneraPs star. and led their vaiient ie- :ion into the battles of Manassas. Seven Pines. Chancellorsviile. Snarpsburg, Get ySburg. Cold Harbcr, Fre6ericksburg, Chickainauga, New iop6 Atlanta, Shiloh, Nashville and Franklin, Hardly an important battle of he war failed to evidence the vaior of Alabama soldiers.