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/747.1 Message Board Post: This man appears on roll with the "Moore Rifles", a company from Calhoun County [keep in mind that Etowah didn't exist then]. These men organized May 3, 1862, at Mount Polk, which a search on TopoZone.com shows to be near Jacksonville, Ala. The company marched to camp at Auburn, Ala., joined the 48th Alabama Regiment as Co. "K", and went to Virginia. All three rolls which bear the name J. A. Phillips note that he had been sent to a hospital, apparently very ill, had not been heard from since and was presumed dead. There are six other Phillips men on the rolls of this company, so they made up at least 5% of its membership, not counting relatives with different last names. Christopher C. Phillips was killed at 2nd Manassas along with Capt. Moses Lee. The father of this boy, Abel Phillips, filed a claim for back pay due his son. M. W. Phillips died on July 28, 1863; his widow, Susan Phillips, filed a claim for money due her. The others were George. McD., J. W., L. E. and Thomas S. Phillips. Names of these soldiers should fill out a large branch of your family tree. I did not check Alabama pension applications or the 1907 veterans census. Please contact me if you need copies of service records.