Alan J. Pitts
Re: Microfilm of the C. of I.
Tue Jul 3 12:46:02 2001


You are correct; microfilm doesn't include all the men that passed through that camp. Enlistment data for other units which refer to Talladega or Notasulga -- particularly when Camp Buckner or Camp Watts is listed as a place of enlistment -- specify that the individual in question had been enrolled there and later assigned to a front-line unit. As you know, there are men who later belonged to the City Guards who were collected at Talladega and eventually assigned to various Alabama companies in the Army of Tennessee when that unit was broken up in early 1864.

You may also recall an earlier post concerning General Bragg's intentions with regard to Camp Buckner. He sent an officer to Talladega with orders to dismount Lewis' Cavalry and return with every man that could be found in camp there, which would have effectively shut that place down. Fortunately a directive from the War Department countermanded Bragg's orders.