Wow, thanks. Sounds very horrible. I appreciate your help. Debi -----Original Message----- From: civil-war-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:civil-war-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of NPeters102@aol.com Sent: Thursday, December 20, 2007 4:58 PM To: civil-war@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [CIVIL-WAR] Wade's Regiment Virginia Local Defense In a message dated 12/20/2007 4:45:29 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, remer_family@comcast.net writes: I've tried a google search but haven't had much luck with this. Does anyone know anything about this regiment Information found online: Eighth Confederate Cavalry Regiment The 8th Confederate Cavalry Regiment [aka: 2nd Mississippi and Alabama Cavlary]was organized just after the battle of Shiloh by the consolidation of Brewer's, Bell's, and Baskerville's battalions -- six Alabama, and four Mississippi companies. Brewer's battalion was among the first mounted troops raised in Alabama, and had fought at Shiloh with severe loss. The Eighth Confederate marched with the army into Kentucky, and was engaged in a series of bloody encounters, extending up to and subsequent to the battle of Murfreesboro. It was in Wheeler's dash on Rosecrans' rear during that battle, and was badly cut in two or three cavalry fights shortly after. The regiment lost very severely at Shelbyville, and was engaged at Chicamauga. Near Dalton, May 1864, the regiment had a protracted fight, with heavy loss. During the Dalton-Atlanta campaign the regiment fought as infantry nearly the whole time. It was engaged at Jonesboro, and in the captured of Stoneman. It was with Wheeler in his last grand raid into Tennessee, fighting often, then moved into Virginia, and fought Burbridge at Saltville. The Eighth then pursued Sherman into the Carolinas, sad was in constant contact with him till it surrendered at Greenesboro, less than 100 strong. Field and Staff Officers: Cols. R. H. Brewer* (Maryland; resigned); W. B. Wade (Mississippi; wounded, East Tennessee; transferred); John S. Prather (Chambers; wounded); Lt. Cols. Baskerville (Mississipi; resigned); Jefferson Falkner (Chambers; resigned); John S. Prather (promoted); John Wright (Tallapoosa); Majors Solon Bell (Chambers; resigned); John S. Prather (promoted); C. C. McCaa (Pickens; KIA, Murfreesboro); John Wright (wounded, Shelbyville; promoted); Knox Miller (Talladega); Adjutant L. L. Goodrich (Mississippi) Captains, and Counties from Which the Companies Came: * Co. "A" (Talladega Co., AL): A. W. Bowie (resigned, 30 May 62); Stockdale (transferred); Knox Miller (promoted) * Co. "B" (Chambers Co., AL): Rev. Jefferson Falkner (promoted); Robert Moore * Co. "C" (Lowndes Co.; MS): George Abert * Co. "D" (Pickens Co., AL): B. B. McCaa (promoted); W. M. Ferguson (captured) * Co. "E" (Lowndes Co., MS): Thomas W. Golden * Co. "F" (Chickasaw Co., MS): I. W. Fields * Co. "G" (Lowndes Co., MS) -- Felix W. Flood * Co. "H" (Randolph Co., AL): John Thompson (captured, Tennessee); John H. McElroy (KIA, near Dalton); Joseph A. Mathews (Mississippi; KIA near Columbia, SC) * Co. "I" (Tallapoosa Co., AL): John T. Wright (promoted); Lindsey (captured, Tennessee) * Co. "K" (Chambers Co., AL): Francis Pi[n]ckard (died in service); Henry Holmes (wounded, Boonsville, Jonesboro) History: George Knox Miller / _8th Confederate Cavalry Regiment, 1861-1865_ (http://www.tarleton.edu/~kjones/8csahist.html) (unpublished mss., 19??) **************************************See AOL's top rated recipes (http://food.aol.com/top-rated-recipes?NCID=aoltop00030000000004) ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to CIVIL-WAR-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message