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/729.2 Message Board Post: Your ancestor served in Capt. John Thompson's "Emuckfaw Rangers", a company recruited in Tallapoosa and Randolph Counties. This command left Daviston, Alabama, January 30, 1862, mustering at Montgomery, Alabama, February 5, 1862. Officers and men later served as Company “H”, 8th Confederate Cavalry Regiment. During the short period you have mentioned, this company belonged to Beall's (not Bell's) Battalion. Writing from Lafayette, Alabama, on January 13, 1862, Thaddeus Beall reported that three hundred "Cavalry Rangers" had enlisted in his command. Three companies organized on February 15, 1862, at Montgomery, Alabama, as the 1st Battalion, Alabama Mounted Men, a designation assigned by the Adjutant and Inspector General's Department on May 10, 1862. A fourth -- Captain Slaughter's company -- transferred on March 13, 1862, before the battalion left Montgomery. Officers and men enlisted for twelve months in Confederate service. Thaddeus S. Beall, a Mexican War veteran, had formerly been a member of Falkner's Alabama Cavalry Company. Beall served as Major from February 15, 1862, his official appointment dated April 30, 1862. He later served as Major of the 8th Confederate Cavalry Regiment.