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To All my dear cousins, does any one have any information on a Henry
Childress.
That in Sep. 27, 1799 was a warrantee in a land transaction in Ohio with 5
other men named Bishop, Howard.ONeal, Walker, Hill . This was for 1000
acres. Measured in Metes and Bounds. Also, it was under the Virginia
Military Warrant Act. Having got this land thru this military warrent act
does this imply that hes was in the Rev. war or ? Also, why the multiple
warrantees?
One more Item, any thing on a henry childres that held a land patent on Peggs
Creek both sides of 400 acres? received this Dec. 1 1779, Amherst Co.,Va.
Dear Jack,
Just returned from vacation today and found your e-mail. I would
love to have a list of the Alabama Civil War Family.
THANK YOU!!
Peggy
PEKIPAN(a)aol.com
Thought I would share this with all my family members that are in search
of---
Below is a listing of what units were recruited from the different counties
in alabama.
Every state pretty much had the same system. So if you know where grandpa
lived in county A , he more than likely be found in the units recruited
from county A. This is not absout however. For exalmlpe if he lived two
miles away from a large town that was in another county or state for that
matter he could be in their units. It is important to know the location of
his home!! Rare, but some times he could be in the national goverment army
rather than the state regiments. Also, forgive me southern family members,
he could have been in the union rather than the confederacy. No matter what
the state! There were union units from every state. Even in the deep south!
Mountain folks tended to be more union in their feelings.
Then there are the border states ky, md, mo, where any thing goes but the
county recuitment still holds here, just that some areas were union and some
where southern.
Well I hope I helped someone, and didn;t confuse anyone. REMEMBER I'M
COLLECTING ANY INFO ON FAMILY MEMBERS AND THE CIVIL WAR FOR A FUTURE CIVIL
WAR REFERANCE GUIDE!!! Anyone seeking info on AL,AK,IN,IL Civilwar famly
members drop me a line. INDIANA JACK
Civil War Confederate Regiments from Alabama Counties
The following Alabama counties were established before 1860 and furnished
companies (100 men, ideally) to the numbered Confederate regiments
identified, except one. Often, a county would furnish several companies to
the same regiment; or, more than one county was required to recruit
sufficient men to form a company. Occasionally, too, companies originated
outside of Alabama (from Georgia or Mississippi, for example), and some
Alabama companies served outside the state (in the 1st Mississippi Cavalry,
for example). No attempt has been made to identify how many companies were
provided to a single regiment, and no attempt has been made to identify where
more than one county was used to make up a company.
COUNTY NAME COMPANIES PROVIDED TO: BRANCH / REGIMENT
Autauga Cavalry: 1; 3; 8; 56 Infantry: 1; 3; 6; 7; 53; 58; 59
Baldwin Infantry: 21; 23; 32
Barbour Artillery: Barbour Art'y; Eufaula Art'y Cavalry: 4 Battalion; 6
Infantry: 1; 5; 7; 15; 29; 37; 39; 45; 57; 59
Bibb Cavalry: 8 Infantry: 11; 20; 29; 44; 62
Blount Cavalry: 12 Infantry: 19; 26-50; 28; 29; 48; 49; 54
Butler Artillery: Jeff Davis Art'y Cavalry: 1; 2; 56 Infantry: 7; 8; 9; 13;
17; 18; 33; 58; 59; 60
Calhoun Cavalry: 1; 2; 3; 5 Battalion; 12 Infantry: 2; 7; 10; 22; 25; 30;
31; 44; 48; 51; 55; 58; 62
Chambers Cavalry: 8; 23 Battalion Infantry: 7; 14; 37; 47; 60; 61
Cherokee Cavalry: 4 (Russell); 9; 12 Infantry: 7; 19; 22; 31; 47; 48; 55
Choctaw Cavalry: 3; 8 Infantry: 22; 23; 32; 40; 54
Clarke Infantry: 2; 5; 11; 22; 23; 24; 32; 38
Coffee Cavalry: 1; 6 Infantry: 12; 18; 25; 33; 53; 54; 57; 61
Conecuh Cavalry: 23 Battalion Infantry: 4; 16; 23; 29; 38; 42; 65
Coosa Cavalry: 2; 6 Infantry: 3; 8; 12; 13; 17; 18; 34; 46; 47; 53; 59; 60;
65
Covington Infantry: 18; 25; 33; 40
Dale Cavalry: 1 Infantry: 15; 33; 53; 57; 59; 65
Dallas Artillery: 1 Battalion; Gid. Nelson Battery; Jeff Davis Art'y
Cavalry: 2; 3; 8 Infantry: 4; 5; 7; 8; 20; 28; 44; 51; 53; 58; 62
DeKalb Cavalry: 9 Infantry: 10; 12; 48; 49; 54
Fayette Cavalry: 5; 8; 11 Infantry: 11; 26; 26-50; 32; 36; 38; 41; 42; 58
Franklin Cavalry: 4 (Roddy); 5; 8 Infantry: 2; 16; 27; 35
Greene Cavalry: 2; 7; 8 Infantry: 5; 11; 20; 36; 36; 41; 43; 62
Henry Cavalry: 6 Infantry: 6; 15; 37; 39; 46; 57; 60; 61
Jackson Cavalry: 4 (Russell); 12; 18 Battalion Infantry: 2; 4; 6; 7; 9; 12;
26-50; 49; 55
Jefferson Cavalry: 12 Infantry: 10; 18; 19; 20; 28; 30; 43; 58
Lauderdale Cavalry: 4 (Roddy); 9; 11 Infantry: 4; 7; 9; 16; 26-50; 27; 35
Lawrence Cavalry: 4 (Roddy); 4 (Russell); 5; 9 Infantry: 9; 16; 27; 35
Limestone Cavalry: 9; 11 Infantry: 9; 26-50; 35; 54
Lowndes Artillery: Jeff Davis Art'y Infantry: 1; 3; 5; 6; 14; 17; 23; 44;
45; 53; 60
Macon Artillery: Hardaway's Battery Cavalry: 6 Infantry: 1; 3; 4; 6; 12; 13;
15; 23; 37; 45; 46; 53; 54; 61; 65
Madison Artillery: Ward's Battery Cavalry: 4 (Russell); 9; 12 Infantry: 4;
7; 27; 35; 49; 55
Marengo Artillery: Gid. Nelson Battery; Jeff Davis Art'y Cavalry: 8; Jeff
Davis Legion Infantry: 4; 11; 21; 23; 43
Marion Cavalry: 5 Infantry: 16; 26; 42
Marshall Cavalry: 4 (Russell); 8 Infantry: 9; 28; 48; 49; 55
Mobile Artillery: 1 Battalion; 2 Battalion; Gage's Battery; State Art'y;
Waters' Battery Cavalry: 3; 5 Battalion; 56 Infantry: 1; 2; 3; 8; 9; 12; 21;
22; 24; 32; 36; 38; 42; 51; 65
Monroe Cavalry: 1; 2; 3; 4 (Russell) Infantry: 2; 5; 17; 23; 36; 42; 53
Montgomery Artillery: 1 Battalion; Marks Battery; McWhorter's Battery; True
Blues Battery Cavalry: 1; 2; 6; 7; 8; 23 Battalion; 56 Infantry: 1; 3; 6; 7;
17; 22; 31; 33; 34; 46; 51; 53; 58; 60
Morgan Cavalry: 1; 5; 9; 11 Infantry: 9; 12; 27; 54
Perry Artillery: Gid. Nelson Battery; Jeff Davis Art'y Cavalry: 3; 8
Infantry: 4; 8; 11; 20; 28; 40; 41; 51; 62
Pickens Cavalry: 7 Infantry: 2; 5; 11; 19; 24; 25; 40; 41; 42
Pike Cavalry: 1; 4 Battalion; 6 Infantry: 1; 7; 15; 17; 18; 22; 25; 37; 39;
46; 51; 53; 57; 59; 60
Randolph Cavalry: 7 Infantry: 13; 14; 17; 22; 25; 30; 31; 44; 46; 59; 62
Russell Artillery: Hardaway's Battery Cavalry: 8 Infantry: 6; 15; 17; 34;
37; 39; 45
St. Clair Cavalry: 8; 12 Infantry: 10; 25; 30; 51; 58; 62
Shelby Artillery: Gid. Nelson Battery Cavalry: 2; 7; 8 Infantry: 10; 18; 20;
24; 25; 29; 30; 31; 44; 62
Sumter Cavalry: 8; Jeff Davis Legion Infantry: 5; 36; 40
Talladega Infantry: 1; 5; 10; 14; 18; 24; 25; 29; 30; 31; 42; 51; 58; 62
Tallapoosa Artillery: Hardaway's Battery Cavalry: 1; 6 Infantry: 1; 13; 14;
34; 36; 47; 53; 59
Tuscaloosa Artillery: 2 Battalion; Fowler's Battery Cavalry: 2; 5; 8
Infantry: 5; 11; 18; 20; 26-50; 32; 36; 41; 43; 51
Walker Cavalry: 4 (Roddy); 8; 56 Infantry: 22; 26-50; 28; 43
Washington Infantry: 11; 32; 38
Wilcox Cavalry: 3; 4 (Russell) Infantry: 1; 6; 7; 13; 23; 32; 38; 42; 44; 53
Winston None
The following was written in the October 1900 edition of Confederate Veteran Magazine by L. S. Ferrell who apparently was alive during the Civil War and recollects this story of the death of a Childress.
"MORGAN'S SCOUT CHILDRESS AND HIS DEATH
Comrade L. S. Ferrell writes an interesting story of Gen. Morgan's
Scout Childress and his fate
Cooper's Island is up the Cumberland river forty-five (eighteen "as
the crow flies") miles from Nashville. Just above the island is a
large eddy on either side of the river, with a thread of current
between, known as Cooper's Eddy. On the north side of the river, in
Sumner County, is Cage's Bend, in shape of a horseshoe, with the toe
resting at the Eddy. It is said that in early times fourteen white men
were killed by Indians on a sand bar just above this point. The
deepest hole in the river was at Cooper's Eddy. In my boyhood I gauged
its depths at sixty to seventy-five feet, low water. I saw a catfish
caught there that weighed over ninety pounds. Early in the forties I
saw my father and Rev. A. W. Douglass, tutor in the Old Nashville
University, take at one time, from one trot-line, four catfish
weighing twenty-five, thirty-two, forty-seven, and fifty-four pounds.
My grandfather, Thomas Hunt, owned a ferry there, known yet as Hunt's
Ferry. A road led from the ferry through the bend to the Gallatin and
Nashville Pike near Pilot Knob. The first house on the road from the
ferry was grandfather's; the next, the "old roof tree" that sheltered
me in infancy, and it now protects my old gray head; the homes of
Judge James Anderson, the Cage family (owned in the sixties by Thomas
Miller), the old Bender place, Rev. B. F. Ferrell's home, which is
near the old Rehoboth Church, and then the home of the late Rev. W. G.
Dorris. Up the river two and one-half miles from Hunt's Ferry, and we
are at Bender's Ferry. Descend the same distance from the same point,
and we are at the Miller farm. Let us keep these places in mind while
we speak of a murder that occurred in 1863.
While Col. Boone with his Federal command occupied Gallatin, a man
entered his quarters in haste and hatless, telling the Colonel that he
had just escaped the clutches of the Rebel conscript officers, and
begged his protection. This was generously given, to which was added a
new hat and perfect freedom inside the Federal lines. The refugee made
good use of his opportunities, and, after remaining a few days and
thoroughly informing himself in regard to the situation, he quietly
slipped through the pickets and reported to Gen. Morgan, who came to
Gallatin one morning soon afterwards before daybreak, and captured
Col. Boone and his entire command without firing a gun. Gen. Morgan
was indebted to Childress, this trusted spy, for the information that
led to this capture. In making one of his trips into Kentucky this
same Childress crossed the Cumberland river at Bender's Ferry. "Old
Hise," the negro ferryman, who had often served him, was absent. It
was Childress's last trip. It happened to be on Sunday night, and He
had gone to see his wife. So Ned and Henry George, two negroes who had
wives at the ferry, engaged to take Hise's place, and set him across.
There were no witnesses to the bloody tragedy when on that cold night
Childress was clubbed to death by those black fiends. The next morning
Mr. Bender's canoe was gone, and a dark, iron-gray horse (with bridle
and saddle on) was seen across the river. Mr. Bender went across, and
found a soft, black hat and a pocketbook with
blood on it. A week from this, Childress's body was found near a raft
across the river. It had made the circuit of the bend. Horn, with
assistance, took the body to the graveyard at Miller's home, and
notified the Federals at Gallatin. My sister, Mrs. H. S. White, and a
younger sister, reached the graveyard before the soldiers arrived, and
secured from the pockets of the large, shaggy overcoat worn by
Childress a great many letters for Morgan's men. They concealed all
the letters they could upon their persons, the rest they hid under the
edges of the parlor carpet. After the Yankees had gone, it was found
that Horn - coward that he was - had put those letters back into the
pockets of the overcoat, and the bluecoats had appropriated them. The
letters saved by these ladies were dried, readdressed, and sent South
to Morgan's men by J. B. Seawell, scout for Gen. Wharton.
Soon after the killing of Childress, the negro Ned, who was very large
and strong, got sick, and went to the Federal surgeon at Gallatin, who
failed to cure him. He died soon after the war closed.
When the negro Ned died, Dr. H. W. Manson, who was a student at the
medical college at Nashville, happened to be visiting his uncle, H. S.
White, and obtained the particulars herein related. The negro was
buried on Sunday. Tuesday night it was dark and raining, but Ned's
body found its way to the dissecting table at Nashville, where it was
revealed that poor, dead Childress, in his heroic struggle for life,
had stabbed Ned in the left lung, thus causing his death.
Owing to the chaotic state of affairs at the close of the war, Henry,
the other negro, went "unwhipped of justice," but I learn has lived
wretchedly, and is in constant dread of an "impending calamity."
Hi
As I have been researching the Fox side of my family, I found a very
nice site that the Fox family has established apparently associated with
the roots web organization. The site allows Fox researchers to place
their family history on the site for all to see and study. Please see
the following site: <http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~fox/> Please look
at the site section titled 'the Hound' where the family info is listed.
If Mark or Gary could find a Childress with the expertise to set us up a
site such as this I am sure every one would be grateful. Please check
out the site.
Regards
Jay Childress
Hi
As I have begun to get into the my mothers side of my family I have
found that someone in the Fox Family has has developed a very neat web
site for the Foxes to post and share information. I will list the
address below but I would refer you to the HOUND area as this is were
the families are able to post there own background. If Gary or Mark
know of a Childress who has the type of expertise to develop and
maintain such a site, I am sure we would all be most grateful. Or
perhaps one of you can just write Gary and Mark and just volunteer to do
this. It appears by the web address that this site was developed in
connection with roots web.
The address, if I can get it correct is as follows:
<http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~fox/> If not just browse till you find
it. It is good.
Thanks
Jay Childress
I am forwarding your mail to one of the family that is doing more on the
Childress line than I am. His wife's mother was a Childress.
The lines I am researching are (partial list) Mount, McCullers/MacCulloch,
Bottoms, Hampton, Akins, Farabee, Blythe,
Duke, Childress, Osborne, Clayton, Chastain.
Thanks again.
Arlene Hampton
Fifty7nFun(a)aol.com
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AVAILABLE NOW A LISTING OF AL. CIVILWAR FAMILY
E-MAIL ME FOR ATTACHED FILE
ALSO ARKANSAS
DITTO
THIS IS JUST BEGNNING PLEASE TELL ME OF ANY ADDITIONS OR HAVE
CONNECTIONS YOU MIGHT HAVE
WOULD LIKE TO FIND OUT WHAT HAPPENE TO THE
DIFFERENT MEN. I HAVE BEGAN TO DO THIS . BUT THIS INFO NOT INCLUDED
STAY TUNED!!!! indiana jack
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Could you possible send a link to the Civil War Diary of John Freeman? The
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DEAR COUSINS,
I AM SEEKING ANY AND ALL INFORMATION ON OUR FAMILY'S ANCESTORS IN
THE CIVIL WAR. THIS IS IN AN EFFORT TO COMPILE ALL OF THE
CHILRESS/CHILDERS POSSIBLE INTO A WEB SITE AND/OR BOOK
FOR ALL TO HAVE ACCESS TO THIS INFORMATION. I HAVE COLLECTED OVER
1500 OF OUR MEN SO FAR FROM NORTH AND SOUTH (MOST ARE CONFEDERATE).
BUT, I NEED YOUR HELP, ANYONE THAT HAS A CIVIL WAR ANCESTOR PLEASE
SENT ME INFO SO THAT I CAN INCLUDE IT! I'D HATE TO MISS ANYONE. PHOTO'S
, STORIES, PENSION'S, RECORDS, HALF TRUTH'S, EVEN LIES ACCEPTED!!!
FOR FUTURE REFERANCE PLEASE SENT ANY INFO IFYOU CAN.
ALSO, I WILL HELP ANYONE THAT IS SEKING CIVIL WAR INFO. OR AT
LEAST TRY. JUST E-MAIL INJACK1(a)AOL.COM AKA.
INDIANA JACK
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