Date: 10/29/98 6:40 PM RE: COE, William A., b. 1844 in AL USA Sheran, I have records of Coes who served in both the Union and Confederate Armies during the Civil War. There was a William A. Coe who served as a private with Company G, 4th Regiment, Louisiana Infantry, CSA, on whom I'm not sure I have information. But again this is not Company A. William Newton Coe, born February 26, 1836, in Polk County, TN, son of Vincent and Sarah Coe, did serve with Company A, 5th Regiment, Tennessee Mounted Rifles, Union Army. He also served with Company E, 5th Regiment, Tennessee Cavalry, Confederate Army. But I have a complete history of his family and he is not your ancestor. The most interesting Civil War William Coe was William Henry Harrison Coe, captain of Coe's Presidential Guards, Confederate Army. William H.H. Coe, son of Benjamin Estel and Mary E. (Digges) Coe was born in 1841 in Washington, DC. He enlisted as a sergeant at Lancaster Court House, VA, May 22, 1861, with Company I, Fortieth Regiment, Virginia Infantry, CSA. Promoted to lieutenant in April 1862, on July 30, 1862, he was promoted to captain. Under the command of Brigadier General John H. Winder at the Battle of Gaines Mill, VA, June 27, 1862, he was wounded in the left arm, while the 40th was positioned between Generals Longstreet and A.P. Hill. The arm was later amputated. In January and February 1863 he saw service in Richmond, in command of Coe's Company, Presidential Guards, charged with guarding Confederate States of America President Jefferson Davis. Confederate records refer to him as "a gallant officer." William H.H. Coe's brother Lieutenant Colonel Benjamin E. Coe, born in 1839 in Washington, DC, also served in the Virginia 40th, Confederate Army. Thomas Jefferson Coe, born in 1823, son of Thomas and Jane (Glasscock) Coe of Claiborne County, MS, served under Captain George P. Crump and Colonel Jefferson Davis in Company H, 1st Mississippi Volunteers, during the Mexican War. He was later overseer of Brierfield Plantation, Confederate President Jefferson Davis's estate near Vicksburg, MS. I have a copy of a letter Thomas Coe wrote to President Davis requesting instructions on care of the plantation and its slaves. He named his oldest son Jefferson Davis Coe. William W. Coe, born in 1835 in Clairborne County, MS, son of Thomas and Martha (King) Coe, enlisted June 14, 1861, at Fort Smith, AR, to serve with Company F, 1st Arkansas Mounted Rifles, Confederate Army, during the Civil War. He was captured May 14, 1864, at Resaca, GA, and sent to the Union military prison at Louisville, KY, May 22, 1864. The following day he was transferred to Alton, IL, and on Aug. 23 he was transferred to Camp Douglas, IL. Held until June 17, 1865, when he was finally released in accordance with General Orders Number 109, he received the Confederate Medal of Honor for gallantry at the Battle of Murfreesboro, TN. William Alexander Coe, born January 24, 1843, in Jackson County, TN, son of Andrew Jackson and Rhoda L. (Martin) Coe, enlisted August 5, 1861, in Nashville, TN, with Company H "Davis' Company," Eighth Regiment, Cheatham's Division, Polk's Corp, Tennessee Volunteer Infantry, Confederate Army. Under the command of D.L. Donaldson, then M.J. Wright, and later J.C. Carter, his brigade operated in Kentucky, Tennessee, North Carolina, Georgia, and Mississippi. Elected second lieutenant August 5, 1863, on April 9, 1865, his company was reorganized into Company D, First Consolidation Regiment, Tennessee Volunteers. First lieutenant with the latter company, he surrendered under Joseph E. Johnson in North Carolina, April 26, 1865. Taken prisoner at the Battle of Franklin, TN, he escaped and rejoined his company. In June 1880 he moved to Farmington, TX, and died July 2, 1931, at Siloam Springs, AR. I cannot find a William A. Coe listed as having served in a Company A, North or South. There were no William Coes who served from Texas, either Confederate or Union. Sorry I can not be of more help at the present. Hopefully I'll be able to decipher the 1890 veterans records. Then we can only pray that they are accurate. Carl Robert Coe