Alan J. Pitts
Seventeen and under only....
Thu Feb 15 00:14:56 2001


It's real simple guys: First Reserve Regiment, Col Daniel E. Huger (Junior Reserves);
Second Reserve Regiment, Col. Olin F. Rice (Junior Reserves);
Third Reserve Regiment, Col. William M. Brooks (Senior Reserves);
Fourth Reserve Regiment, Col. William M. Stone (Senior Reserves);
Third Reserve Battalion, Maj. Solomon T. Strickland (Senior Reserves).

Note Confederate Military History 7:232, which includes the following from the OR: "Captain Pitts' company of boys on post duty at Talladega, July 13 to 15, 1864." Also note a Union report which describes the First Reserves as "a regiment of boys, about six hundred strong...."

Captain Pitts was from Harpersville and his letters are quite readable and informative:

First Reserve Regiment,
Company “C” of Shelby and Talladega Counties “Bridge Guards”
Captains:
John W. Pitts. Appointed Major [March 1,] 1865; formerly Captain of Company “K”, 31st Alabama Infantry Regiment.
Wailes W. Wallace. Promoted Captain to rank from [March 1,] 1865. Paroled at Talladega, Alabama, May 26, 1865.

Accepted in Confederate service at Wilsonville, Alabama, December 7, 1863, this company mustered nearby on December 19, 1863. It served at Coosa Bridge as Company “C” of Lockhart’s Infantry Battalion prior to August 16, 1864.

The age of enlisted men is shown on most of the muster rolls for these companies. You'll need to add three of them together to get to forty-five.






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