Alan Pitts
Brewer's Cavalry Battalion
Wed Dec 27 22:04:27 2000


Don't have as much as you want. The organization included five companies. Bowie's was original "A" and Faulkner's was original "B". This unit merged with Baskerville's 4th Mississippi Cav. Battn. on March 28, 1862, Purdy, Tenn., becoming Cos. "D" and "F". Incidentally. Capt. C. S. Robertson's "Hardin County Yankee Hunters" served as Co. "G" for a short time before transferring to the 1st Confederate Cav. Regt. The other three companies were J. Warren Cole's "Louisiana Mounted Rangers", Charles C. Clay's "Forked Deer Rangers" and H. C. McCutchen's company. The last named became Co. "H", 7th Tenn. Cav. and Clay's Co. "F", 7th Tenn. Cav.

As far as POW's go, they often moved from collection points at Chattanooga, Nashville and Louisville on to specific POW camps at rail stations north of the Ohio River. However, men from units such as Abbay's that had been assigned to posts along the Mississippi River were shipped up the Mississippi River to St. Louis, thence to Alton, IL or some other POW destination in a northern state. It's possible a sick prisoner might have been dropped off at Columbus and sent to a camp hospital at old Beauregard. Can't prove it.

• Walker's/Baskerville's Cav. Battalion — Hayes Lowe, Fri Dec 29 11:39