Alan J. Pitts
Re: Homer
Tue Jun 26 15:06:22 2001


Thanks -- wartime rolls of 1st & 2nd class militia from Pike County may indeed carry the name in question. However, I had supposed Mr. Hubbard might've been making reference to the beat (company), battalion and regiment for his residence. If a citizen never enrolled in a Confederate command, a state reserve unit or a local defense company, he could always offer his antebellum militia designation and it 'sounds' as if he's in the military.

If memory serves, the two regiments for Barbour County were the 35th and 89th A.M. Their geographic boundaries conformed exactly to the two census divisions for the county. There were seventeen beats in the county, so each regiment was divided into two battalions, usually of four beats each. The free population of Pike County was roughly the same as Barbour's, so I'd have to assume a similar arrangement for militia had been made in that county during antebellum times.