This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/xhC.2ACE/781.1 Message Board Post: The company organized on July 30, 1861, at Mobile, and mustered on Aug. 2, 1861. The Mobile Advertiser & Register regularly carried articles about the Mobile Dragoons from "Camp Dragoon" near Bayou Le Batre. This is near the southwestern corner of Alabama, and is today known as a home of the shrimp industry. The area isn't prospering at the moment. The Dragoons patrolled the coast, along Portersville Bay, Grand Bay, and as far west as Pascagoula MS. The captain's name was James Hagan (not Hagen), who soon left the company to become major of Wirt Adams' Cavalry, and then colonel of the 3rd Alabama Cavalry. He was well-regarded by his men, who were not surprised to learn of his promotion. The great aspiration of these men in the summer of 1861 was to go to Missouri and fight the Yankees in that state.