Robert McMillan
Wirt Adams Co. M
Tue Jan 23 19:40:06 2001


I would also like to add Capt. T. A. Nettles company to the list. He also served in Wirt Adam's Regiment. Here is a story from him to the "Confedera"CONFEDERATE VETERAN" MAGAZINE July 1908 pages 349-350
T. A. Nettles, Tunnel Springs, Ala., writes: "I was nineteen years old September 24, 1861, and started to war next
day. I was detailed with my company to guard a boat load of Yankee prisoners to Mobile, Ala. We thwarted
their plot to run the blockade below Mobile, and turned them over safe when we reached the city. My company, M,
Wirt Adams's Cavalry, went to Memphis and from there to Bowling Green. After Shiloh we detached, doing
active scout duty, but later joined the 3d Alabama Cavalry, under Gen. Joe Wheeler. I was captured at Shelbyville
in June, 1863, imprisoned at Nashville a few days, and from there was carried to Camp Chase, where we hoped for
speedy exchange. In about two months we were placed on some box cars and in August were imprisoned in Camp
Douglas. On the night of our arrival, August 24, there was a big frost. We were first guarded by Chippewa Indians
and Michiganders. We fared tolerably well for a time as to rations, but most of us were thinly
clad and in poor shape for the approaching winter. By spring they reduced our rations, as they thought they had
learned how little it took to keep a man alive, but they failed on their calculation, for several who had been hearty
eaters died for want of nourishment. -Robert McMillan

• Co. I, Wood's Regiment, Cavalry — Jackie Feldman, Mon Feb 5 18:55
• Wirt Adams ===> 3rd Ala. Cav. Regt. — Alan Pitts, Tue Jan 23 20:24
• Company I, Wirt Adams' Regiment — Robert McMillan, Tue Jan 23 21:11
• Company "I" — Alan Pitts, Tue Jan 23 21:34