Alan J. Pitts
Should any Yankee be trusted?
Wed Mar 14 09:46:40 2001


Taken from William P. Howell's history of the 25th Alabama, at the URL given below. This site was generously provided by Steven L. Driskell.

http://home.earthlink.net/~sdriskell/25th/25th.htm

At the time Howell was a lieutenant in this company.

"One little incident I will record here which occured while at Corinth. Company I which I commanded (Capt. Alexander had gone home one leave of absence) was detailed for provost guard in the town. Among other things, we gaurded some Yankee prisoners who had been captured by our scouts. Among them was a young man above the average in point of intelligence and culture and who was very communicative and gave his name of Frank Sullivan and a Kentuckian. He expressed an attachment to me and a willingness to take the oath of allegiance and join our army if he could be allowed to join my company. So after submitting his request and desire to Colonel Loomis he was mustered into the service of the Confederate Army and assigned to my company and soon after the Battle of Shiloh he behaved and fought so gallantly that he was made Orderly Sergeant and was one of most efficient non-commissioned officers the company ever had while he remained with us. In the summer following when General Bragg started to move his army around to Chattanooga, preparatory to making his Kentucky Campaign, we left Mississippi and traveled by rail by way of Mobile, Montgomery and Atlanta to Chattanooga."

"On the way we stopped in Montgomery for a day or two and while there Frank Sullivan our Orderly Sergeant one day got a pass to go in the city and borrowed my watch and hat (I was wearing a citizens summer hat) and he went off to town and from that good (evil) day I have not heard from hat, watch nor Sullivan."







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