2nd Alabama Cavalry Regiment The Second Alabama Cavalry Regiment was organized at Montgomery on 1 May 1862. It proceeded to West Florida and operated there about ten months, engaging in several skirmishes. Ordered to north Mississippi, the regiment was placed with Gen’l Ruggles. It then lost 8 men in a skirmish at Mud Creek. It…
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George Washington Haile–CSA
George Washington “Jolly” Haile Company A, 11th Regiment Tennessee Infantry This company was known at various times as Captain White’s Company, Company G and Company A, 11th Regiment Tennessee Infantry. The 11th Regiment Tennessee Infantry was organized for State service June 1, 1861, transferred to the service of the Confederate States in August, 1861, and…
Leonard Travis Cranford – CSA
12th Regiment of Alabama Infantry L. T. (Trav) Cranford actually had two enlistment’s in the 12th Alabama. The first started in March 12, 1862. He enlisted at Coosa County, Alabama to serve 3 years and was paid a bounty of $50.00. It indicates he was born in Perry County, Alabama, in October of 1862 he…
Civil War Ancestors
Alabama Cranford, Leonard Travis Co B, 12th Alabama Infantry, Rode’s Brigade (Battle’s Brigade), D.H. Hill’s Division (Rodes Division), Stonewall Jackson’s Corps (II Corps, Richard S. Ewell, Commanding), Army of Northern Virginia, Gen Robert E. Lee, Commanding Coosa County, AL, served 4 years, discharged once for illness, enlisted again and was wounded twice (Winchester and Petersburg),…