Alan J. Pitts
Re: Cahaba
Thu Aug 2 17:15:57 2001


Broadfoot's has been wrong before, but so have I. Still questioning the identity of the 1st Confederate Regiment. The 1st Battalion was often called the 1st Regiment; the only other I can recall at the moment was the 1st Georgia Confederate, which was stationed at Mobile until the spring of 1864 and included an Alabama company from Butler County. In any case, I'd expect this man transferred from that regiment to Dent's Battery.

I've been through all the records of Companies "D" and "E" of the 2nd Reserves in an attempt to match names to 1860 census records for Barbour County. Never found anyone much over the age of seventeen in the couple of hundred names that I searched. However, in the 'early' days (spring of 1864) some of these reserve companies evidently included both seniors and juniors. At some point in the summer of 1864 a determination was made that a company was either junior or senior, and members who didn't fit transferred to an age-appropriate unit. Companies "I" and "K" of the 2nd Reserves were created out of junior transfers from the 3rd Reserve Regiment. Note that all the officers of these two companies were members of the class of '64, University of Alabama.