Henry Seale
James Wiley Horton, etc.
Fri Dec 15 19:33:01 2000


Hayes, Well, to be exact, there are a total of 10 paragraphs in the Bloomquist book, but I only considered 5 or 6 of them to actually pertain to the history of the regiment.

As to James Wiley Horton, this is quite interesting as to the inscription on the grave. Obviously someone was terriably mistaken that placed the toombstone, which I doubt, or this was another Horton and not the one in Co. B,40TH Ala. I checked my Broadfoot roster and found no other Horton listed that I suspected that this may be, however as you are well aware, not all soldiers have records listed with the National Archives. If this soldier did die at Manasas, there very well may not have been any records for him that survived the war. Also remember that is was somewhat common at the early days of the war for a soldiers body to be returned home for burial. I would conclude that these are two different men as there is too much documentation to conclude otherwise. The one in the 40TH I would conclude was wounded in the leg at Bentonville on 19 March 1865, had leg amputated and died 30 March 1865, burried at Oakwood Cemetery, Raleigh, North Carolina.

What is the name inscription on the toombstone at Pleasant Ridge? I have a good friend that is from Pickens County named Horton that I inquired as to his relationship to this James Wiley Horton and he was not familiar with him, but was interested in him and Confederate history.

• I'll check into it and let you know. n/m — Hayes Lowe, Fri Dec 15 20:11