Hi! Cousins - The Emerald Guard http://www.webhosters.com/34thtxcav/html/CoI8thAla.html This URL was mentioned on another list and I found it to be very interesting. If you may have had ancestors in the Confederate Army you may want to check it out. I did find a few O'Neall's and Boyds and such listed below. In Company I, 8th Alabama, the Emerald Guard, 104 of the 109 men were Irish-born, and the men wore dark green uniforms; their banner was a Confederate battle flag on one side with a full-length figure of George Washington in the center. The reverse was green, with a harp, shamrocks, and the slogans, "Erin-go-bragh" and "Faugh-a-ballagh." This was the first Alabama command that enlisted "for the war." It was organized by the appointment of its field officers by the war department. The regiment lay at Yorktown, Virginia, the first eleven months of its service, and a detachment of it was engaged in a skirmish near Winn's Mill. Placed in Gen. Pryor's brigade, the regiment fell back with the army till the enemy overtook it at Williamsburg. It won its first laurels on that fiercely-contested field, losing about 100 men. At Seven Pines it was again under the most deadly fire, and its loss was 32 killed, 80 wounded, and 32 missing. Of 1377 men on its roll, the Eighth had 300 killed or mortally wounded, over 170 died of disease, and 236 were discharged or transferred. 9th Alabama Infantry Regiment - The 9th Alabama Infantry Regiment was organized at Richmond, Virginia, the latter part of May 1861, and contained men from Butler, Calhoun, Greene, Jackson, Lauderdale, Limestone, Marshall, Mobile, Morgan, and Sumter counties. It was moved to Winchester several weeks later and was there brigade under Gen'l Kirby Smith of Florida. Field and staff officers: Edward Asbury O'Neal (Lauderdale; transferred); Majors Edward Asbury O'Neal (promoted); and Adjutants D. F. Boyd; O'Neal, Jesse Co. E Private O'Neal, John Co. E Private O'Neal, Thomas Co. E Private O'Neill, Cornelius Co. C Private O'Neill, George Co. I Private Chapman, Wm. S. Co. G Private Bynum, Robert Co. E Private Boyd, Jno. A. J. Co. K Private Boyd, W. L. Co. K Private The Emerald Guard site is: http://www.webhosters.com/34thtxcav/html/CoI8thAla.html Jim O'Neall [email protected] "Searching the past; Looking to the future"