H. Stinson
We're Getting Close, One More Thing Please!!!!
Mon Jul 16 11:27:30 2001


Dear Friends
Thank you for all your responses. There is a lot of confusion concerning the 5th Battalion, but two questions please.
No 1.- What would have happened to My GG Uncle if he were, "transferred to SharpShooters Battalion." Would he have stayed in Comp I of the 18th?
No 2.- According to pension application, my GGUncle stated that he was "captured at Kingston GA in 1863,...paroled but not exchanged about April 24th, '63 in Louisville and remained in Indiana until the war was over." He applied in 1916, and may have been mixed up on the dates, for I cannot find that the army was near Kingston GA in the spring of 1863.
What say you, fellows? Prison records are next, and so far my foraging has come up empty with the National Archives and microfilm. I need to know where to look next.

Mr. Lowe, as to your finding no record of Col Blount and the 5th Battalion, may I offer this:

Captain J.M. Mickle (of Comp I 18th Ala.) filed a "Report from Camp Beulah," in his Muster Roll from Dec 31st to Aug 31st 1862, which I found at the Shiloh Military Park library. The paragraph which mentions the 5th Batallion reads like this,...
"By special order to that effect, Co. I Eighteenth Regiment of Alabama Volunteers was blended with Captain Thomason's Company of Lieut. Colo. Blount's Fifth Alabama Battalion on April 26, 1862. By this blending 71 men were added to the Muster Roll of the company." (Comp I)

Once again, thanks everyone for your help!
H. Stinson