Thanks for the info on county records Del it will indeed save me time when I visit Selma. Ernest- I assumed that since William Page Molette was born in 1785 he was too old to be in an actual fighting unit. But at that stage of the war I guess anything was possible. But, with the info Suzanne Coats posted I tend to believe the incident had to have happened close to Selma. I did make a mistake on the actual date he was 'shot"- it was April 16, 1865 not the 15th. My information was sent to me by a researcher from Montgomery and his original post said "Murdered by Yankee Soldiers'. It was from a conversation with a very distant relative ( I believe it was Eleanor Molette Cobb) who still lives in the Selma area that I noted "shot in the back." The information I got from Montgomery also said that Charles Caldwell Molette (William Page's grandson) died at the battle of McNut Hill, TN Apr, 1863. Charles was listed as private in Co E, 3rd Al Regiment, CSA. Suzanne thank you for the info you sent. I will see if my state library has a copy of that book. I did not know that William P. was a Col. at his age- could that have been in a home guard type unit? As I said before ya'll have been so helpful and I don't think I can really express how much this help means to me. The story of Charles Stonewall Jackson Mann that I can gather is a hard one to figure out and sad sometimes. Up until I got the notion to find out his parent names- most of us in the family did not know anything about the AL connection or the Molette family. We were under the impression that Charles was a German immigrant who came into the country through Louisiana and settled in Baltimore then Richmond, VA. somewhere around the turn of the century. It was a shock to find out that his maternal family (including his mother) was "American born" (figuratively) immigrating from Germany in the early 1700s and that the family appeared to be "well to do [before the war) and well placed in society". And no one knows his father's name. As far as anyone in the family can remember the only thing Charles ever said about his father and his parents was "MANN" was his father's surname. The rest of the information I have came from digging up a boy's memory of a trip in a new 1935 Ford to a strange place called Molette's bend and looking at a grave with the name Eliza on it -then going to a lawyers office , the courthouse and a drug store for ice cream. But most of all I have what I have because of people like yourself--willing to share and take the time. Thank you all, Sandra