This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: PRINCE Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/xhC.2ACE/756 Message Board Post: I am confused on just how the 6th Ala. was formed. On Jimmy Allen's wonderful website, the 6th was formed from recuits in Jackson county. But one of the guys enlisted in the 6th Ala from nearby Dade county Ga. Also, in the book "The Civil War" (the companion to the PBS series of the same name) it states: "John B. Gordon...raised a company of mountaineers who insisted on wearing coonskin caps and called themselves the "Raccoon Roughs" When they reached Atlanta and were told they were not yet needed, they stayed put while Gordon sent telegrams offering their services to all the southern governors. Alabama finally found room for them, and they boarded the train for Montgomery" Not doubting you Jimmy, I am just a bit bewildered. I am trying to establish if those Prince brothers were in Ga. or Ala. in 1860. Anyone have conjectures on this? Thank you all. Ira P. Prince