The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-06-05
FINE OLD CITIZEN
 OF MOBILE
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ftfully. The dogs of the Indians had roamed about in the battlefield and found the dead bodies of their masters ing and in the distance the wolves who had caught the smell of fresh blood, gathered and added their flesh moving hoWls to the savage Sanoemo- nium of this memorable scene.
 A Terrible Rattle.
 T lay there wounded nigh to death Close by me was the body of my best friend slain in battle. With all this weird and savage things that I forgot my own misfortunes and my own griefs and watched the scene whose like I never afterwards saw. By mid night the lamenting women and the exulting warriors had become so ex- hausted on that they had sunk sunk ito to the penetrating howls of the wolves and dogs, broken now and then by the sud den cry of sorrow of one of the wo- men who would wake, and; remember quivering cry of grek"
 The wounded and the captives wera painfully and slowly, moved eastward. prevented Captain Alba from losing, his limb and his life from the serious wound he had sustained.
 He was discharged from the cavalry in 1860 and given official commenda ton and praise for his honorable ser vice, the papers of which Captain Alba now jealously preserves in the safety deposit vault where he Keeps his most valuable papers.
 The Civil War broke out. Captain Alba became an officer in the Confed- crate cavalry and went West with his command. He was called home by se- rious family trouble brought on by a brother officer and close personal tense, the hatred so irreconsilable that the word passed between them,. "The world Is too small for both of us"
 Duel With His Friend.
 This incident formed the most sor- rowful chapter in the old soldiers llte, He tells of 1t today with grief and with unsteady voice. he says. "We met and
 He was in prison in Mobile two years waiting trial, at which he was imme- and the prison was filled with a ,piestu- a sea captain, a midshipman a pira te, a London pickpocket, a beatuiful young woman who had eloped from her home in North Alabama and was held On the charge of theft. Prison life. was en- iivened by two desperate adventures, which are W ell worthy of another sto- ry, a mutinY and an attempted escape.
 The troubloas days which followed the war and came with reconstruction also had for him tragic Incident for and desperate leader of the negroes. And of this duel he might also have said, We met and he fell"
 A mob of maddened negroes attempt ed to lynch him, but he held them of with a pistol and voluntarily surren- dered to be acquitted by an unfriendly jury on the ground of self-defence and
 Herein ia outlined only one or two of the exciting adventures of a stren- uous life. In all of them there is meat for a volume that would read with the interest of a romance. A remarkable career it is all the way through, from the duieter years after the war spent in Mobile. where Captain Alba attain ed a reputation as horse tanner as wide as the South and was believed to have some occult power over tho most saw age animals
 Nor should his humanitarism be for gotten. his labors early anu late, for his friend the horse, a continual cru sade against the cruelty of the check rein. IA. ,.- property of value. a handsome old home in Mobile and 2, bea,Ttifuls little snends the lntr days of his full lite
 He has served on the staff Of Govern ors of Alabama, has always been act i've in the development of his sectiica and is a patriotic citizen with wide circle of loyal and devoted friends.