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Author: Smith & De Land, publishers

    CHARLES W. RAISLER, native of Pennsylvania, son is a of Frederick William
and Elizabeth (Himeberger) Raisler, of Wurtemberg, Germany.

    In early life he learned the cabinet maker's trade, in New York City, and
from there went to New Orleans, from which place he joined Company F, Second
Regiment, Louisiana Volunteers, and served through the Mexican War, under
General Taylor. At the close of the Mexican War he returned to New Orleans, and
from there worked his way North, stopping, ad libitum, at various cities between
the Gulf and the Ohio River, and finally landing at Triana, Ala., where he
engaged in the manufacture of furniture. In 1856, after having his furniture
factory at Triana burned, he came into Athens, and here was engaged in the
cabinet-making business, at the outbreak of the late war. In May, 1861, he
raised a company of volunteers for the Fortieth Tennessee, and was with it until
the capture of Island No. 10. As an officer he was taken to Johnson's Island,
held thirteen or fourteen months, and exchanged. His command was re-organized
into the Fifty-Fourth Alabama Infantry, with Raisler as Captain of Company B. He
was with this regiment at Baker's Creek, and was again captured, near Jackson,
and returned to Johnson's Island, where he was kept until within one month of
the fall of Richmond. He returned home, June 15, 1865, and out of the 127 men
that went with him to the front, only eighteen survived.

    Captain Raisler was the first representative to the Legislature, from
Limestone County, after the cessation of hostilities, and he served in that
body, sessions of 1865, '66, '67, '70, '71, '82, and '83. He served one term as
mayor of Athens, in 1878, and is the present incumbent of that office. He is a
member of the Masonic order, Knights of Honor, Golden Rule, Knights and Ladies
of Honor, and a communicant of the Episcopal Church.

    He has always been an active political worker, and was for many years
chairman of the democratic executive committee, though recently it has been
charged, and probably rightly, that his independence has taken him somewhat out
of the line of stalwart democracy, though probably not into the enemy's camp.

    While in the Legislature, he introduced several bills, that became laws, of
more than ordinary importance.

    Captain Raisler was a gallant soldier during the war, and afterward,
undoubtedly, rendered the people of Alabama much valuable service.

    He is now engaged in the drug business.


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

PART III.
HISTORICAL RESUME OF THE VARIOUS COUNTIES IN THE STATE.
CEREAL BELT.


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