Ann
33rd Infantry Company E-23rd BN. S.S. Company F-1st BN. Hill
Wed Jul 18 18:10:40 2001


Homer,
Do you happen to have anything on Paul M. Meads, he was my 3rd gr-grandfather.
Paul M. Meads served with Clanton's Battery organized at Pine Level in Montgomery, Alabama in June of 1863.
McWhorter's (Clanton's) Artillery Battery
This command was organized at Pine Level, in Montgomery County, March 1863. It was composed of men from that and adjoining counties. Attached to Gen'l James H. Clanton's brigade, Department of the Gulf, the battery was at Pollard and Mobile for some time, then in northeast Alabama and north Georgia. One section was engaged in a fight at Rome, and the battery fought at Girard, where the guns were captured. The surrender of the men soon followed, 16 April 1865.
Officers: Capts. Eliphat McWhorter; N. H. Clanton (Macon); Lts. R. J. Swearingen (Macon); Henry Goldthwaite (Montgomery); and Charles Howard (Macon)
Armaments: one 12-lb. Howitzer, and three 6-lb. Smoothbores (on 11 Jan 1864); one section armed with one 10-lb. Parrott, and one 12-lb. Howitzer (on 21 Feb 1865)
Thanks, Ann