Reuben House
Enlisted as a Private
"D" Co. AL 15th P Rangers Cavalry
15th AL Cavalry Battalion Organized: on 8/25/62 Mustered Out: 6/8/63
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Reubin House
Enlisted on 6/1/1863 as a Private.
On 6/1/1863 he mustered into "D" Co. AL 56th P Rangers Cavalry
Organized: on 6/9/63 Mustered Out: 4/26/65 at Durham Station, NC
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- Index to Compiled Confederate Military Service Records
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The Fifty-sixth regiment of mounted infantry, known as
Partisan Rangers, was organized in the summer of 1863, by the
union of Hewlett's and Boyles' battalions of cavalry, both of
which had done good service in the army of the Gulf as scouts
and pickets, and had fought gallantly at King's Creek and
other points in Mississippi.
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My guess is this is the record of Reuben Jr. as father was above the age of Conscription and may have been drafted into the home guard late in the war
Reuben/Reubin House, Private, Company D, 1st Battalion Alabama Partisan Rangers,* enlisted September 1, 1862 at Mobile, Ala. for the war, last recorded May 1, 1863 as on detached service from April 10, 1863
* The 15th (also known as the 1st) Battalion Alabama Partisan Rangers was organized on August 15, 1862. The battalion was consolidated with additional companies June 8, 1863 to form the 56th Regiment Alabama Partisan Rangers
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Reubin House, Private, Company D, 1st Regiment Alabama Partisan Rangers [56th Regiment Alabama Partisan Rangers], enlisted September 1, 1862 at Mobile, Ala. for the war, present at the Jul/Aug, 1863 at Pontatac, Miss. muster dated August 31, 1863, last recorded present at the Sep/Oct, 1863 muster, dated December 25, 1863,** last paid August 31, 1863 by Capt. Dashiels
** His file contains one card for R. H. House, Private, Company D, 56th Regiment Alabama Cavalry, enlisted October 8, 1861 in Brazas County, Texas, attached sick to Loring’s Division Hospital, Macon, Miss. July 12, 1863, last paid by Maj. Fort, August 30, 1863
Note, I believe there is a misfiled card
Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Alabama