Here's a little something from the Moulton Advertiser, 11 Aug 1871. Maybe you can use it:

"William B. Figures, editor and proprietor of the Huntsville Advocate, has been in our town a couple of days making arrangement to pay loyalists for property stolen, by the Federal Soldiers, during the war. He was assisted by our worthy townsman, William McDonald, who swallowed a whole regiment of Yankees and captured a fleet of gunboats (by his lone self) during the late unpleasantness. William was for Mr. Smith, at the State election and for that he has obtained a big (lucrative) fat Office, out of which he will come richer than the Rothchilds. Oh! that we had stuck to our hollers, and we would get pay for the chickens, turkeys, meal, flour, bacon, the soap grease and old butter, that Mr. Streight and Mr. Phillips borrowed from us, and forgot to pay back, while they were looking after Uncle Sam’s interest in North Alabama."