Hayes Lowe
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Mon Feb 19 22:35:42 2001


From the O.R.'s:

MARTIN'S DIVISION - Maj. Gen. William T. Martin

First Brigade - Brig. Gen. John T. Morgan
1st Alabama, Lieut. Col. D.T. Blakey
3d Alabama, Lieut. Col. T.H. Mauldin
4th Alabama [Russell's], Lieut. Col. J.M. Hambrick
Malone's (Alabama) Regiment,
Lieut. Col. James C. Malone, Jr.
51st Alabama, Capt. M.L. Kirkpatrick

The 51st Alabama is obviously the Kirkpatrick's Ky. Cav. Battalion listed in the microfilm records (shown not just once as "Kirkpatrick's Ky. Cav. Batn.", but several times, in several different rolls of film!). I'd bet that there is a roll of film for Kentucky units that has info on the 51st Alabama Cavalry!

Also note that the 4th Alabama is in the same brigade, which ties in to Col. Goldsby.

Now what is still mysterious, though, is that W.M. Weaver appears to have given the information that he was in the 2nd Brigade, 2nd Battalion of Morgan's Cavalry. Could the 51st have been a battalion called "Kirkpatricks" at some earlier point in the war? The above is from 1863. And, apparently W.M. Weaver is not found on the rolls of the 51st, as there is no possible listing for him in Broadfoot's in that regiment.

• No. Try this...... — Alan Pitts, Tue Feb 20 10:04
• my apologies for the sloppy post n/m — Alan Pitts, Tue Feb 20 10:06
• Re: Kirkpatrick Batn. and Lt. Weaver — Hayes Lowe, Tue Feb 20 10:43
• Kirkpatrick's Kentucky Cav. Battalion — Jim Martin, Tue Feb 20 09:45
• 51st was a red-herring! — Hayes Lowe, Tue Feb 20 10:25
• Goldsby's Co. reel 36 — Alan J. Pitts, Tue Feb 20 15:00
• After looking at your references.... — Alan J. Pitts, Tue Feb 20 23:24
• The various William M. Weavers — Hayes Lowe, Wed Feb 21 11:20
• Each one different — Alan J. Pitts, Thu Feb 22 16:33
• Do I understand you correctly... — Hayes Lowe, Thu Feb 22 19:07
• One bit at a time.... — Alan J. Pitts, Fri Feb 23 00:07