Barbour County AlArchives Biographies.....B. F. Long November 11 1844 - after 1893
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Author: Brant & Fuller (1893)
   B. F. LONG, brother of the foregoing, is a native of Barbour county, Ala.,
his birth dating from the 11th day of November, 1844. He attended school at
intervals until the breaking out of the war, when he ran away from home and
entered the army, as a member of the Third Alabama battalion, which afterward
became the Sixtieth Alabama regiment volunteer infantry. The greater part of his
period of service was spent in the trenches around Richomnd, but previously he
was in the Western army until after the battles of Mission Ridge and
Chickamauga. He took part in the battle of Drewry's Bluff, where so many fell
dead and wounded around him that his clothing was completly saturated with
blood, but he escaped without receiving the slightest injury. He was within 200
yards of the place where Grant exploded the mine at Peters-burg, and
participated in all the horrors of the terrible scene of carnage that followed.
He continued in active service until the surrender at Appomattox, where he laid
down his arms, and at the end of the war returned home without a penny of money
which he could call his own, and found employment as a farm laborer. He soon
engaged in the pursuit of agriculture for himself and has continued the same
ever since, with the most gratifying success. He is also interested in the
mercantile business, owning a store at Old Spirng Hill, and one at the raiload
station several miles distant, both of which are conducted with financial
profit.  In. November, 1871, in Pike county, Ala., Mr. Long and Cristilla Cade
were made man and wife, and their marriage has been blessed with the birth of
the following children: Wallace P., manager of his father's store at Harris
Station; Clarence, Marvin, Harvey, Ola, Sela, Gertrude, deceased, and Alma. Mr.
Long is a straight-out democrat in his political belief and takes an active
interest in public affairs, especially those pertaining to Barbour county. He is
a Methodist and for fifteen years has held the position of steward in the local
congregation to which he belongs. Fraternally, he is a member of the Masonic order.



Additional Comments:
from "Memorial Record of Alabama" p. 443. Brother of J. H. Long


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