Alan J. Pitts
Re: Pike County soldiers
Tue Jun 26 08:34:49 2001


W. T. Hubbard's name appears on a list of "light duty men" who received clothing at Camp Watts (Notasula) AL, Sept. 14, 1864. They belonged to Capt. Charles Gachet's company, which may have been state reserves or exempts, since nothing else is known about them.

T. F. Hubbard's name appears on a list of paroles issued by the Federal XVI Army Corps at Montgomery AL May 24, 1865. His parole was #2031, and the Federal clerk wrote the word "conscript" on the back side. His description is 5 feet, 10 inches tall, darks hair, eyes and complexion. He signed as belonging to Co. "B", 1st Battalion, Alabama Militia. The name of this unit is utterly unfamiliar to me and frankly doesn't sound right, unless the regimental number was left out. If we knew where he lived in 1860, it might be possible to identify the militia regiment designated for his county.

Allow me to close by saying that militia assignements like these were common to virtually all males between the ages of 18 and 45. However, since the Confederacy required military service of the same group of men, the state militia was almost non-existant. For that reason, the only men who could be paroled as militiamen were those holding exemptions or discharges from regular Confederate service. Previous posts have reviewed exemptions based on Confederate military law in some detail.