From: "EARLY SETTLERS OF ALABAMA" ,BY COL. JAMES EDMONDS SAUNDERS, LAWRENCE COUNTY. ALA. MAC OLIVER, of Virginia, was twice married, and had eight children, all of whom settled in Georgia. 1, Wiley2; 2, James2; 3, Joseph2; 4, John2; 5, Ann2; 6, Charlotte2; 7, William2; 8, Mac2 (by second wife) and killed in civil war. (Mrs. Oliver m. (II) a Mr. Wheeler, of Clayton, Ala.) Of the above, 1, Wiley2 Oliver, lived in Barborn County, Alabama. 2. James2 Oliver, m. (???), Issue: 1 Henry3 Oliver, Macon, Ga., m. (???), and had 1.Kate4, m. Mr. Cooper. Her son. 1.George5 Cooper, in U. S. N; 2.Nannie4, m. Mr. Orr; a son, 1.Oliver Orr. 2.. William3, 3. Frank3, 4 Sarah3, 5, Nancy3. 7. William2 Oliver, (b. 10th Dec., 1798; died 1836), lived in Twiggs county, Georgia, and removed, 1835, to Randolph (now Quitman) county, married (I) Dorcas Harrison(*), (b. 29th Oct., 1802; d, 18th September, 1830) and (II) 1834, Irene Drake, of Americus, Ga. He has relatives in Eufalua, Ala. Issue: I. Andrew J.3Oliver veteran of Mexican war, living near Clyattville, Ga. Born 1825, married, (1862) Sarah Francis Studstill. Issue: 1. William Thaddeus4 (b. 1862) of Quitman, Ga. 2. Alice Ida4, (b. 1866), m. Alex Keel. 3. Dora Ann4 (b. 1870), m. James Lowry. 4. Florida S4, (b. 1874). 5. Florence E.4 (b. 1877). Mr. Oliver has 13 grandchildren. II. Thaddeus3 Oliver, (b. 25 Dec., 1826), m. Sarah P. Lawson (living in 1899). He is said to be the author of "All Quiet along the Potomac To-night."(*) Issue: (*)In the above list only two of the children of Mac Oliver are accounted for. It was copied for this work by Mrs. Marion (Carter) Oliver, who regrets not receiving a list of the other descendants. She sends the following of Dorcas Harrison's lineage: Benjamin Harrison, drowned in Oconee river, near Dublin, Georgia, m. Charity Williams (d. 1854) and had James, Dorcas, Charlotte and perhaps others. Of these, Dorcas m. Wm. Oliver above, James Harrison (d. 1870), of Twiggs county, and afterward of Randolph County, Georgia, 1850, m. (???), and had 1, Samuel, m. 2, Martha, m. Theodore Guerry, 3, James, m. Miss Rice, and 4, Colonel William, now of the old homestead, Georgetown, Georgia, and member of Legislature, m. Virginia Crawford, and had Crawford and Mittie Harrison. He alone survives of the name. His brothers, their sons, and his own sons all being dead. (*)Thaddeus Oliver lawyer, died 20th August, 1864, in the Soldiers' Relief Hospital, Charleston, S. C., six weeks after his leg was torn off by a cannon ball. He was Solicitor General of the Chattahoochee Circuit at his death. "Actuated by a desire of 'rendering unto Caesar the things that are his,' and to a dead soldier the honor he so justly deserves. I have shown in a previous letter to the 'Sunny South' that the noble poem 'All Quict Along the l'otomoc To-night' was unequivocably, and without the solicitation of friends, ascribed by Alexander Stephens, to 'Georgia's gallant and gifted son, Thaddeus Oliver.' The Great Commoner, having sifted the evidence, made this declaration a few weeks before his death, on the occasion of the Sesqui-Contennial Celebration, at Savannah, Ga. "Other writers male and female, Northern and Southern, have also spasmodically claimed its authorship, but all were refuted a score of years ago by the son, Rev. Hugh F. Oliver, who had gathered his father's fugitive pieces--which, in spite of the author's modest protests, were published from time to time by others, who selected for him pen names suggested by the subject or the occasion. He wrote 'All Quict Alony the Potomac To-night' while in camp at Manassas, 1861, when slightly wounded in the wrist, and it was intended solely for his wife, and,' the two on the low trundle bed, in his cot far away on the mountains,' thus referring to his two young sons." The article appeared in Harper's Weekly, 30th November, 1861 (many weeks after it was really written), with Mrs. Beers as claimant for authorship. "Her son," continues Mr. Oliver, "brazenly alleges 'she dashed it off in his presence,' which was an extraordinary impromptu feat. But, if she merely memorized the poem and committed it to paper in her son's presence, and afterward sent it to Harper as an original production for which she received pay, she did only what any woman of ordinary ability is capable of--always provided, however, she had no seruples as to appropriating 'to her own use, benefit or behoof,' as the lawyers express it, the property of another--dead or alive. "Again the manuscript poem, it is asserted by Mrs. Carol G. Johnston, of Abingdon, Va., was found in the satchel of two Confederate soldiers, but she neither affirms nor denies, and it was evidently copied from the newspapers of that day when editors vied with each other in disclosing the authorship." The son, Rev. Hugh F. Oliver, republished in the "Columbia State," South Carolina, September 7, 1898, letters and corroborative articles, which he had furnished the Southern Historical Society Papers for June and July, 1880, at the earnest request of the editor, Dr. J. Wm. Jones. Among these is the assertion from Mr. Shaw, of a Texas regiment camped near the Second Georgia when the poem was written, that Mr. Oliver, as its author, showed it to him. Also a letter of John D. Ashton, of Waynesboro, Ga., 1874, to Rev. H. O. Olsen, Madison, Ga., saying he had been a comrade, and also co-member with Thaddeus Oliver of the Milledgeville convention, 1860. Their regiment went to Acquia creek, Virginia, and afterward Centreville, from which weekly detachments of pickets were sent out to the Potomac, and while serving on one of these posts the two men welded their friendship. Mr. Ashton produced some lines he had written "To Wilson's New York Zouaves," on one of these occasions, and in return Mr. Oliver showed him the wonderful War Lyric, saying he had written it, but he did not want it published, or his authorship known;