Interviews: 1923 L.B. Henley (of) Fulton - Was born May 12, 1845 in Clarke County. Enlisted in Company F, Twenty-first Alabama Regiment, at Point Clear, Baldwin County. D.C. Anderson was colonel of the regiment; was with the regiment at Fort Gaines when the Yankee fleet ran into Mobile Bay. Colonel Anderson surrendered the fort and his men to the Yankee fleet and they were taken to New Orleans and kept there two months, then taken to Ship Island and kept there two months; was exchanged in Mobile Bay on January 1, 1864, and given a seventy-five day furlough; after furlough expired went back to Mobile; regiment reorganized and sent across the bay and joined to Holtzclaw's brigade; went down to Hollywood and met the Yankee army, then fell back to the breastworks at Spanish Fort; fought the Yankees twelve days and nights, when the place was evacuated; waded through the marsh up to Blakely, thence to Mobile by steamer; remained in Mobile a few days, then went to Meridian, Miss, and there paroled. "History of Clarke County Alabama" by John Simpson Graham 1923