Biography of Captain Nathaniel Davidson Cross, CSA, Dallas, Alabama

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	Capt. N.D. Cross, Ordnance Department, C.S.A., had first come
to Selma in 1862 as foreman of the laboratory at the Selma Arsenal,
and Forman Field Ammunition. He served as foreman at the arsenal
until the Battle of Selma, April 2, 1865.

	A native of Nashville, Tennessee, Capt. Cross came from a family
deeply interested in education. His father Nathaniel (Princeton,
B.A. 1823; M.A. 1827) was, for some years Professor of Ancient Languages 
at University of Nashville. Later, for 16 years he conducted
a classical and mathematical school for boys, Bandusia Seminary.
Each of the 4 Cross sons taught at some time at Bandusia. Capt.
N.D. Cross taught at a school in Ringgold, Tennessee, and he also
practiced law in Nashville in the late 1850s and early 60’s, until
the beginning of the Civil War.

	After the war, he returned to Dallas County, living near Browns.
Later he moved to Selma, where he was made Superintendent of Schools.
His brother Major J.D. Cross, CSA, was the first Superintendent of
Schools in Perry County, and their sister Annette taught music ——
both piano and voice -— in both Dallas and Perry Counties.

	Capt. Cross died in Selma in 1888 and is buried in Live Oak
Cemetery, which he had helped to lay out.