As an occasional contributor to this board, I would like to humbly call attention to a series of books I have compiled on Blount, Cullman, and Winston County Confederate soldiers. The books were published a year or so ago and I was recently honored by having the entire five volume set accepted for the shelves of the Alabama Department of Archives and History in Montgomery. The books contain hundreds of pages of liberal abstracts from the soldiers' service records and pension files, extensive area newspaper articles and obits, as well birth, marriage, and death records, plus dozens of pictures of the old soldiers and a full name index. This labor took me most of ten years of my spare time to accomplish. In addition to the ADAH, the books can be reviewed at Wallace College at Hanceville, Nichols Library in Gadsden, Huntsville Public Library, and the Double Springs Archives in Winston County.
Blount County outfits (entire rosters) include: (Infantry) 19th Alabama infantry, B and K; 28th Alabama Infantry, B and C; 29th Alabama Infantry, B, C and F; 48th Alabama Infantry, A and F; 49th Alabama Infantry, I; 50th Alabama Infantry, D, and 54th Alabama Infantry, I. (Cavalry) 12th Alabama Cavalry, Companies B and C; 2nd Kentucky Cavalry, Company G; Lewis Battalion Alabama Cavalry, Companies B and E; Blount soldiers who served in Graves, Barbiere, and Stewart's Alabama Cavalry; Holloway's Escort; and the 3rd Confederate Cavalry, Company D. A third volume in the Blount County series contains miscellaneous soldiers from other Confederate outfits and those old soldiers who moved to Blount after the War.
The Cullman County book contains some overlap with Blount since half the county came from Blount and half from Winston, but contains not only the remaining native soldiers, but accounts for all the ex-Confederates from other states (primarily Georgia) who moved there after the War. It also contains a long series of war remembrances from two old Georgia soldiers (George Martin Holcombe and Elijah Wilson Harper) which were published in the Cullman Tribune.
The Winston County book contains my thesis in the introduction that states and seeks to prove just as many men from the Free State of Winston served the Confederacy as did the Union. In fact, at least five Confederate Captains at one time lived in pre-War Winston County as well as several Lieutenants.
These books will be a valuable resource for those seeking information on old Confederates from those counties. This much information on the old soldiers has never before been so thoroughly researched and collected in one place.
These books (as well as other works) can be page previewed and are available for purchase here: http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/Robin_Sterling_Books