Date: 10/15/98 6:23 PM RE: COE, Pvt. William A. Company K, 21st Alabama CSA Larry, I have William A. Coe's Confederate service records and they are explicit as to his affiliation with "The Mobile Cadets." Born in 1844 at Columbia, AL, on the Chattahootchee River, where his father was postmaster, he was a son of Andrew Jackson and Sidney Ann Coe. He enlisted Feb. 26, 1861, in Columbia to serve as a private with Company B, First Battalion, Alabama Artillery. Ordered to Fort Gaines and Fort Morgan, where he worked as a teamster and hostler, on Oct. 11, 1862, he was assigned to the Quartermaster Department. By order of Colonel Cowell, on June 20, 1863, he was transferred to "The Mobile Cadets," Company K, 21st Regiment, Alabama Infantry & Artillery, CSA. In October and November 1863 he was reported as "under arrrest at his Post." In February 1864 records of the Cadets report him as being "In Guard House at Post -- Transferred from Co. K, 21st A.R. Reenlisted," which he did February 26. It appears that he transferred to Company G, Fourth Regiment, Louisiana Infantry, Confederate Army, March 31, 1864. With that company he was captured at the Battle of Franklin, TN, Dec. 17, 1864, and was taken to Nashville as a prisoner. Transferred to the military prison at Louisville, KY, he was received there Dec. 22. Later transferred to infamous Camp Chase, Columbus, OH, he was held there into January 1865 when he applied for the oath of allegiance. He then joined the Union Army and transferred to Naval Rendezvous, Chicago, IL, March 20, 1865. After the War he returned to Henry County, AL, where he appears on record in 1869. The following year he was living with J.W. Culverhouse at Skipperville, AL. From there he appears to have moved to Henderson County, TX, where he had a family and died about 1896. William A. Coe's brother James Alexander Coe, born Nov. 25, 1838, in Barbour County, AL, served as a lieutenant with Clanton's Brigade, Alabama 6th Cavalry, Confederate Army, and married April 6, 1860, in Early County, GA, Louisa Virginia McGriff, cousin of US Vice President William Rufus King. His brother Burrell J. Coe served in Company G, 13th Georgia Infantry, Confederate Army, and died July 5, 1862, in Richmond, VA. His brother John Jasper Coe, b. June 17, 1842, enlisted June 4, 1861, at Corinth, MS, to serve with Company A, 6th Alabama Infantry, Confederate Army, and was surrendered to the Union Army at Lynchburg, VA, by General Lee in April 1865. I hope this is helpful. If you need further information on William A. Coe or his Confederate service, please let me know. Carl Robert Coe