Hayes Lowe
Bartow Rangers
Fri Jun 29 14:37:49 2001


While none of the companies of this regiment may be formally credited to Cherokee County, I think that Lt. Col. Weeden's writing must be given credence that enough of the men were from Cherokee to name that county in his article. ["to the brave men from the counties of Madison, Jackson, Marshall, DeKalb and Cherokee, who composed the Forty-ninth Alabama Regiment, that this error should be corrected".]

The entire purpose of his writings was to correct errors in the history of the 31st/49th, and I don't think that he would have included any statement of which he was not absolutely sure. He was very adamant that the history of the regiment be correct.