-----Original Message----- From: MWal608508@aol.com <MWal608508@aol.com> To: cmccoy@frontiernet.net <cmccoy@frontiernet.net> Date: Monday, September 20, 1999 7:50 PM Subject: article >Infantry Organized > Claiborne Southerner 1861: The Monroeville company (Infantry) styled in >the Monroe Rebels is now regularly organized. They met on Saturday the 10th >inst. and elected officers which resulted as follows: G. G. Mathews, Captain; >W. A Duke, 2nd Lieut.; F. M. Jones, Brevet 2nd Lieut.; John M. Parkers, >Orderly Sergeant, with balance of officers to be elected later. The company >will be mustered into service near Camden, Wilcox Xounty, in Col. Beck's >regiment. > The company is to be armed with double barrel shot guns, which with >bayonets, according to high military authority will be very destructive >implements of warfare. From the Monroe Journal Centenial Edition, Dec. 22, >1966, page 3E. >