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Author: Smith & De Land, publishers

  JAMES BURTWELL, the leading Druggist of Florence, was born at Florence July
17, 1842. His father, John T. Burtwell, came from England with his parents, who
settled in Tennessee. He there grew to manhood; came into Alabama, where he
married Miss Cornelia Bedford, and returned to Tennessee, from whence after a
few years he removed to Florence, where he was engaged many years in steamboat
business. He died in 1862, at the age of sixty-two years.

  James Burtwell was educated at Florence Wesleyan University; entered the
Confederate Army in 1862 as a private soldier in a regiment which had the
misfortune of being captured by the enemy before it fairly got started to the
field. However, it was but a short time before Mr. Burtwell was again in the
service; this time as a private in the Sixteenth Alabama Infantry where he
remained three years.

  His only brother, John R. Burtwell. was a graduate from West Point, and one of
the most brilliant young men that went from Northern Alabama into the army.
After the war, he was several years United States chief engineer of the Mussel
Shoals improvement, and it was while in the performance of his duty in this
capacity, that he contracted malarial disease, from which he died in 1875. He
was a colonel in the Ninth Alabama Cavalry during the late war, and at West
Point was the class-mate of General Wilson, the famous United States Cavalry
commander. Immediately after leaving West Point with the rank of second
lieutenant, he was assigned to Fort Wachita, Indian Territory, and was there at
the outbreak of the war between the States, when he immediately resigned and
went into the Confederate service. He went out as adjutant of the Ninth Alabama
Infantry, which command he joined in Virginia. At the end of about one year he
was made aide-de-camp on General Hardee's staff. From there he was within a
short time assigned to a position on on the staff of General Bragg, and later
was made chief of artillery in Cheatham's division. He was next promoted to
inspector-general on Bragg's staff, in which capacity he was sent to Florence to
inspect General Roddy's command, and while here was captured by General
Phillips. Phillips at once paroled him, and left him at his home at Florence.
Being exchanged in about three months, he was placed in command of the Ninth
Alabama Cavalry, under General Roddy. In 1871 he entered the service of the
United States Government as an engineer. He died a widower, leaving five
daughters. He was born in Lauderdale Countv in 1834.


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Northern Alabama: Historical and Biographical
Birmingham, Ala.: Smith and De Land
1888

PART IV.
MONOGRAPHS OF THE PRINCIPAL CITIES AND TOWNS IN NORTHERN AND CENTRAL ALABAMA,
TOGETHER WITH BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF MANY OF THEIR REPRESENTATIVE PEOPLE.


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