Hayes Lowe
Where and when?
Thu Feb 22 13:37:26 2001


Where and when did the 2nd surrender? I have searched every source in which I expected to find this information with no luck.

Looking at the microfilm, all the paroles that I found were in Talladega and Montgomery.

I did find confirmation that most of Davis's escort parted ways with him quite sometime before Wilson's Corps captured him. On the other hand and somewhat contradictory to your statement, I found a reference that the 2nd Ala. Cav. "laid down arms in Forsyth [Ga.] in May 1865". That would indicate that they had neither been captured nor surrendered as a unit before that time. And, we have the "testimony" of N.B. McAlpine that he was with Davis when he was captured.

For those of you looking for "lost" members of the 2nd Cav., I found where two of them were. These two men were captured at Tuscaloosa by Croxton's Brigade, in early April 1865.

E.D. Coliler (sic, probably should be Collier), Co. D
J.W. Parsons, detailed conscript