Alan Pitts
No. Try this......
Tue Feb 20 10:04:41 2001


You're not finding a Kentucky organization under the name "Kirkpatrick" because Kirkpatrick and his command were from Tennessee. See the following web sites:

http://www.tngenweb.org/civilwar/csacav/csa9cav.html">
http://tennessee-scv.org/Camp1513/9th.htm

Morgan consolidated survivors of his cavalry in May 1864 and assigned them as follows:

http://members.aol.com/jweaver301/nc/7csahis.htm

John Hunt Morgan's Division - Spring 1864

John Hunt Morgan's command was organized into three brigades for the expedition:

First Brigade - commanded by Colonel Henry Liter Giltner - totaled about 975 men. Subelements were:

4th Kentucky Cavalry Regiment - Colonel Tandy Pryor
10th Kentucky Cavalry Battalion - Colonel Edwin Trimble
1st Battalion Kentucky Mounted Rifles - Major Holliday
2nd Battalion Kentucky Mounted Rifles - Colonel Thomas Johnson
10th Kentucky Mounted Rifles - Major Tom Chenoweth
6th Confederate Cavalry Battalion - Lieutenant Colonel George M. Jessee
7th Confederate Cavalry Battalion - Lieutenant Colonel Clarence J. Prentice

Second Brigade - commanded by Colonel D. Howard Smith - totaled about 500 men. Subelements were:

1st Battalion Kentucky Cavalry - Colonel Bowles
2nd Battalion Kentucky Cavalry - Colonel Kirkpatrick
3rd Battalion Kentucky Cavalry - Colonel Cassell

Third Brigade - commanded by Colonel Robert Martin - totaled about 900 men. This brigade was dismounted.
Subelements were:

1st Battalion - Lieutenant Colonel Robert Alston
2nd Battalion - Major George Diamond.

Notice that Capt. John D. Kirkpatrick, the senior captain of the 9th Tennessee, appears as "Colonel" Kirkpatrick. If you read the 2nd URL given above, it seems possible that your Mr. Weaver could've joined Kirpatrick's "Kentucky" survivors anytime during the year following its appearance in north Georgia in September 1863.

What was he doing prior to that time? Have you looked at his records in M331? as a P.A.C.S. officer? I've seen his records as Adjutant of the consolidated 37th Ala. and wondered about his origin. The 42nd Ala. was used to form this unit and included some west Alabama men. Is that a possibility?

I'd be astonished to find a senior reserve assigned to duty as an adjutant. Goldsby's mounted company was a local defense company (six months only), and I'd expect that this individual was connected to the 3rd Reserves as you mentioned earlier.

Bottom line: you're talking about units that are in different places at the same time. Therefore, you're probably talking about two diiferent people by the same (or very similar names).
Barbiere's Alabama Cavalry Battalion, 1st Sgt., Goldsby's Company [Dr. Jones page shows this as a reserve unit formed in 1864.]

37th Alabama Infantry, Adjutant [with this unit at the surrender in North Carolina.]

A local (Selma, Ala.) bio of William Minter Weaver shows that he was with Morgan's Cavalry, 2nd Brigade, 2nd Battalion, and with the 37th.

Another local bio says he was with Gen. John H. Morgan's Cavalry. [Note that Gen. John T. Morgan was from the Selma area and he had his own Alabama brigade, which confuses the matter.] Gen. John T. Morgan's [mostly Kentucky] Brigade did have one Alabama unit, the 53rd Alabama Cavalry/Partisan Rangers.

And, finally, Broadfoot's shows a William Weaver in the 3rd Ala. Regiment of Reserves, Company H. The 3rd Alabama Reserves were organized at Selma.







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