Hayes Lowe
Ala. Cav. units in N. Ala. at the end of the war.
Wed Jun 20 10:36:55 2001


"I stayed at home awhile and then went off to the Calvary up in North Alabama and stayed with them until the war was about over."

It is unclear from this statement where the cavalry unit moved, if anywhere, but I take it to mean that this unit stayed in North Alabama until the war was about over. I think that he would have mentioned where he ended up at the end, if it was not the same place that he had just mentioned in his sentence.

If this is so, all but one Alabama cavalry unit is ruled out. That would be Johnston's 25th Alabama Battalion, which was surrendered at Huntsville on May 11,1865.

All other Alabama cavalry units (that I know of still in existence at that time) are accounted for in other areas at the end of the war (i.e. the Petersburg area, the Carolinas, resisting Wilson's raid in Central Alabama/Georgia, or the Mobile area.) This includes the 9th Ala. Cav., which ended up in the Carolinas. Now the problem with this comes in with the fact that he does not state (at least in what has been presented here) that the unit that he joined was an Alabama unit.

The 10th Texas was in Mobile from early March until the fall of Fort Blakely. However, they would have likely passed through North Alabama between the middle of Dec. 1864 ( known to be at Nashville, Tenn.) and early March 1865 (in the Mobile area), as the unit moved from Nashville to Mobile. That does make this unit a possibility [if I am interpreting the veteran’s statement wrong]. However, the roll that I have found on the internet for the 10th Texas shows only a Corpl. John Deacon (with a “c”), not Deason. You should probably order this mans record from NARA and see when it shows that he enlisted and where (be aware though, that it may not show this information in the record).