The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-08-05

for four years the South was Ma ton in Camp" Her bravest were '.garnered i'm wars harvest of death"
 Yet. the south's rapid recuperation from the ruin, and scourage of war
 was as phenomenal as the achieve ments of her matchless soldiery. and marks an era of Southern industrial and domestic history, a fitting com
 panion chapter to that which records the splendor of its military triumphs. Thus. whether in war or in peace the South has been true to its ancient faith and worthy of its Anglo-Saxon lineage.
 Such Is the incomplete history of the military organizations from Alabama, and the other Confederate Soutnern States Who can tell how much Is known of the history or fate of the men either living or dead, who were Confederate soldiers from Autauga county7 It must pc sadly admitted that we know but little. This ad- mission is a reproach. which we should promptly remove. Will not the mem bers of this Chapter bestir themselves to obtain the facts so that the history of the Confederate soldiers of Autauga county can be written and preServed2 | So far as have been able to obtain information Autauga county furnished | the armies of the Confectionery eight l full companies and part of com | pany, raised conjointly with Mont gomery county But little. if any of the history Of these commands is in an enduring form. The most l nave Dragoons," were Company H.. Sd Aia- bama Calvary, J. J. Cox was captain, | & D. Oliver, 1st Lieutenant. A. '. Smith, 2nd Lieutenant. and Wm. Mont I gomery, Brevet 2nd Lieutenant. This company was organized April, 1Sos. Company F., Tth Alabama Cavalry ore ganized December, 1882. H. J. Livings- ton, Captain Dalton Yancey, fst Lieu l tenant; c. 4. Northington, 2nd Lieu 1 tenant: Murdock Mcqueen. Brevet 2nd Lieutenant.
 Company K, lst Alabama reorganized Regiment of Heavy Artillery, February. l 1862
 l.. J. F. whitfield, Captain.
 | Merrill F. Pratt, 1st Lieutenant. 1 ID s. Hall. 2nd Lieutenant. Charlie F. Futile. Brevet 2nd Lieu-
 tenant.
 l Alabama Regiment Infantry, Col John 1 J. Seibels commander, organized at Autaus aville, May 1st, 1881, went nrst first battle of Manassas 1t was a part ,of R. g. Euwell Brigade, D. H. HliI | Division. The regiment was reorgan- | ized in 1862 at Yorktown. Va, ana Tohn B. Gordon became Colonel, k IE. Rodes became Brigade Commander,
 D. H. Hill. Division Commander ana | gtonewaIl Jackson, Corps Commander. This company carried out in the be- l ginning IF men, rank and file. It's oficers were Thos. A. Davis, Captain | Wm. Davis, 1st Lieutenant, H. L. Col | son. End Lieutenant and l.. A. Fou' Brevet End Lieutenant and James M. Thompson Iof Autaugavtlle, oredery I .tm VsAr the war as many recruits as US orig I inal membership, so that all told tnis company had 234 names of officers ana men upon It's rolls during the war. Tn ISs3 there was formed company or sharp shooters from the Sth regiment now of Montgomery, Ala, was made nrdarIy Sergeant of the company or shsrn shooters. Of the Autauga Guards a company raised by Gen. DeRardelaben of Robinson Springs and a company by Col. Hodgson, ! have been unable to obtain any taotS whatever.
 Time is fast removing from us those os our heroic soldiers who survived inc war, so that 1t will soon pc too Hate to get any facts from those who
 were members of these various com , mands. These facts should be collect-
 ed while there is yet time to obtain
 them from the few survivors ana put In enduring form. While the history o9 Indiyiduals. and of individual conn
 mands may be incomplete, yet, the
 achievements. the valor, the endurance land heroism of the Confederate armies
 will live as long as the history or
 man Is read The four years wnlcn
 the Confectionery lived were years oA
 fadeless splendor Compressed witnan
 that period Is a history as glorious
 aa was ever written by humanity In
 any age or country, so that no neglect
 on our part to preserve the recoFos
 of local commands. can consign to
 dumb forgetfulness the record which
 the Confederate soldiers of all the
 States unitedly made.
 ''Nor shall their glory be forgot
 while Fame her Record keeps
 Or honor points the hallowed spot : Where Valor proudly sleeps"
 felt I could be of more and greater
 service to the cause we all nave at
 heart and discharge a duty to the
 memory of our soldier heroes living
 and dead by calling attention to the
 neg1ect into which their history has
 fallen than by making this paper
 aorid and suited eulogium. upon theiI achievements. Alabamians contributed
 much to make glorious the record or
 the Confederate armies, and Immortal
 the short, and spotless life of the Con fPdHFaIe states ~t { may have been the faults, or failures
 of its politicians or its statesmanship [ the genious of it's generals and the } valor of its soldiery has earned for II . the love of it's own people, and the admiration of the civilized world. Let us write, and preserve the history or Alabama's soldiers in that greatest of all Civil Wars. Many of them have ! crossed the river to their rest be- the trees"
 Upon fame's Eternal Camping Ground Their silent tents are spread. While glory guars with solemn round , The bivouac of the dead" James Cantey Chapter. } Accepting the invitation of Mrs w. H. Holland. James Cantey Chapter, met at her hospitable home at Scale Friday morning, July eth. A full attendance of members and several visitors were I present