Alan J. Pitts
Re: Pension for widows
Thu Apr 26 11:00:09 2001


Even if a pension wasn't granted, I'd still check for an application. It may well contain much information, family and military, which would be useful today.

The man named Loggins that you mention served in Capt. John McCaskill's Cavalry Company, recruited around a small town called Arkadelphia. That community appears on a detailed map of Alabama in Cullman County, just west of the Mulberry Fork of the Warrior River. Anyone who has visited Rickwood Caverns has some idea about this area. At the time of the war Cullman County didn't exist and Arkadelphia would have been near the junction of the Walker, Blount and Jefferson county lines. Arkadelphia Road still exists beside Birmingham-Southern college here in our city.

Here's a good web page by a local physician on an ancestor who eventually became captain of this interesting command.

http://www.archaeology.org/online/features/civil/words/robinson.html

This company eventually became part of the 11th Alabama Cavalry Battalion which later joined the 3rd Confederate Cavalry Regiment. Readers familiar with Willis Brewer's work on Alabama units might note that he describes McCaskill's company as being from Wilcox County. Perhaps Brewer meant Walker and his editor just misread his writing.