Hayes Lowe
Plow Boys
Sun Apr 8 08:05:19 2001


Thanks for that information. I'll update my database.

It is quite common to have men reported as killed in action, and it be wrong. It is much more unusual for them to be reported as having died in camp, but it not be true. There must be an interesting story behind that. On the other hand, in the 19th Century it was so common to be pronounced dead, then the "dead" returns to life, that all sort of signals were marketed so that the "dead" could get assistance when they were buried alive.

It seems likely that you ancestor may have been pronounced dead, then the regiment moved on from the camp, and then he revived...so the regiment didn't know that he had revived. My information of his death is taken from a record of wounded & killed made postwar from memory by J.D. Thomas, so it also may just be a case of faulty memory. However, if your ancestor was living in Tuscaloosa County, it seems that Mr. Thomas would have known that!

I have visited Moore's Bridge Cemetery. I have relatives buried there, too. I'll look for Mr. Beams' grave next time that I'm there. Most of my Doughty relatives are buried at Big Creek, where this company was formed, and at Concord Baptist Church.

However, my direct ancestor moved to Pickens County less than a year after the end of the war, just after taking the Amnesty Oath in Tuscaloosa on 8/31/1865. Many of the men of this company went to Pickens County to live. Joseph Jasper Doughty was wounded at Shiloh and in North Georgia. He died 1/2/1915, and is buried at Liberty Church Cemetery. Reverand J.A. Mitchell, also of the Plow Boys, was the pastor there.