Henry-Dale County AlArchives Biographies.....Gordon, Alesander C. 1811 - 
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Author: Willis Brewer
Alexander C. Gordon was literally one of the first settlers of Henry [County].  
HE was born in Washington county, georgia in 1811, and his father died in the 
military service of his country a year or two later.  In 1817 he came with his 
uncle, James Hughes, across the Chattahoochee to what is now Henry county.  At 
the age of eleven years, he, and a younger half brother, were abducted by the 
Indians and carried off to their towns on the Apalachicola, where they were 
found and rescued four or five months later.  He becaame a merchant and 
planter, was an officer in the"war" of 1836,led the first company from this 
county into the Confederate service, and was a captain in the 6th Alabama 
Infantry during the first year of the war.  He was also commander of am ilitia 
battalion which operated against Sanders and his band in Dale and Herny 
[Counties].  HE has served the county in the legislature and as general of 
militia.  He possesses in a high degree energy, courage, and sagacity.  His 
wife was Miss Hudspety.

Additional Comments:
From "Alabama:  Here History, Resources, War Record and Public Men, From 1540 
to 1872" published in 1872.

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