I have just obtained a book by Arthur E. Green entitled Southerners at War: The 38th Alabama Infantry Volunteers. This book contains a short history of the regiment giving its movements and engagements about 40 pages. For the next 300 pages, he gives whatever details he could find on each member of the regiment it looks like the sort of information that one could obtain from the Confederate records in the National Archives. Five Paces are listed, all in Company I, which was recruited from Clarke Co, AL. They are: Pace, A. L. Burial note 30 Aug 1864. Pace, George W. (Pace, G. H.) Died 14 Mar 1865 in Richmond, VA, of chronic diarrhea. Pace, J. J. Age 26, gray eyes, sandy hair, dark complexion, 61 Pace, Robert B. (R. B.) - Captured at Battle of Missionary Ridge, prisoner at Rock Island. Resident of Coffeeville, Clarke Co, AL. Age 35, blue eyes, brown hair, fair complexion, 5 10. Pace, W.H. Captured at Spanish Fort, AL, in the closing days of the war. I believe that the physical description was taken from the parole at the end of the war, so the ages listed would be in May or June of 1865. The information is sketchy on most of these Paces, but if anyone is interested, I will be happy to email you a scan of that page. Also, two Paces are listed as having died in the Civil War on the Clarke County War Memorial in Jackson, Alabama. They are: H.L. Pace J.G. Pace Both of these were in Co D of the 32nd Alabama (another Clarke Co unit) along with two other Paces (the last in Co H). Pace, A. R., Co. "D" Pace, H. L., 2nd Lt., Co. "D" Pace, J. G. S., Co. "D" Pace, John W., Co. "D" Pace, W. J., Co. "H" Joe Anderson
I found another reference to W.H. Pace in the regimental history section of the book. During a charge on 15 May 1864 in an engagement at Resaca, GA, the regimental "color bearer, Sergeant W. H. Pace of Company I was wounded." So, it seems that one of our Paces was either a very brave man or else he wasn't smart enough to realize that the color bearer was the man most likely to be shot. Personally, I prefer the first alternative. Joe Anderson ----Original Message Follows---- From: "Janders 45" <janders45@hotmail.com> To: PACE-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [PACE-L] Clarke County Paces in 38th Alabama Infantry Civil War Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2005 13:02:08 -0600 I have just obtained a book by Arthur E. Green entitled Southerners at War: The 38th Alabama Infantry Volunteers. This book contains a short history of the regiment giving its movements and engagements about 40 pages. For the next 300 pages, he gives whatever details he could find on each member of the regiment it looks like the sort of information that one could obtain from the Confederate records in the National Archives. Five Paces are listed, all in Company I, which was recruited from Clarke Co, AL. They are: Pace, A. L. Burial note 30 Aug 1864. Pace, George W. (Pace, G. H.) Died 14 Mar 1865 in Richmond, VA, of chronic diarrhea. Pace, J. J. Age 26, gray eyes, sandy hair, dark complexion, 61 Pace, Robert B. (R. B.) - Captured at Battle of Missionary Ridge, prisoner at Rock Island. Resident of Coffeeville, Clarke Co, AL. Age 35, blue eyes, brown hair, fair complexion, 5 10. Pace, W.H. Captured at Spanish Fort, AL, in the closing days of the war. I believe that the physical description was taken from the parole at the end of the war, so the ages listed would be in May or June of 1865. The information is sketchy on most of these Paces, but if anyone is interested, I will be happy to email you a scan of that page. Also, two Paces are listed as having died in the Civil War on the Clarke County War Memorial in Jackson, Alabama. They are: H.L. Pace J.G. Pace Both of these were in Co D of the 32nd Alabama (another Clarke Co unit) along with two other Paces (the last in Co H). Pace, A. R., Co. "D" Pace, H. L., 2nd Lt., Co. "D" Pace, J. G. S., Co. "D" Pace, John W., Co. "D" Pace, W. J., Co. "H" Joe Anderson ==== PACE Mailing List ==== Check out the new Pace Society of America web page at: www.pacesociety.org, and please join the Pace Society of America for only $25.00 per year.