Randolph County AlArchives Photo Person.....Guinn, James Miles Killian 
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Name:               James Miles Killian Guinn
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JMK Guinn, Lieutenant 13th Alabama, Company K.

1987 Ancestor Trails to GA and ALA - Dorman Laurez McDonald Pg. 346 - List of 
men belonging to Capt Jefferson Falkner's company of mounted infantry organized 
for local defense in Randolph & adjoint counties.
JMKG - Age 28, blue eyes, light hair, 5'9, fair complexion, born Macon Co., NC, 
Farmer, dated after Oct 20, 1864
 
JAMES MILES KILLIAN GUINN, author of the history of Randolph County, published 
in the Randolph Toiler, Wedowee, Alabama in 1896, the third son of James W and 
Catharine Ann (Dobson) Guinn, was born November 5, 1835 at Franklin, Macon 
County, N.C., and died at Langdale, Alabama, Jun 8, 1903 and is buried at 
Wedowee.  He was educated in the common schools and in 1858 moved to Texas but 
returned to Alabama and volunteered for service in the Confederate Army and was 
mustered into service at Montgomery, July 28, 1861.  He arrived at Richmond 
Va., a few days later and was made Lieutenant of Company K, 13th Alabama 
Volunteers and afterwards promoted to Captain.  The Colonel of the Regiment was 
Birket D. Fry, a Californian, who was at the time living in Tallahassee, Ala., 
holding a position with the Tallahassee Mills.  Mr. Guinn's regiment was in 
A.D. Hill's Division under Stonewall Jackson.  He lost his left arm at Cold 
Harbor in the seven days fight.  He was at Chancellorsville, in the Wilderness 
Battle and at the Seig of Yorktown.  He married first Emily F Burton, at 
Wedowee, Ala., Feb 27, 1862, and three children were born of that union, Emily, 
Katy and Robert.  His wife died November 6, 1865, at Alto, Texas.  The next 
year he returned to Alabama and on February 21, 1869 married at Wedowee, Mary 
Jane (widow of Jimmy Foster) Culbertson, daughter of Byrd Culbertson (aka 
Bird).  This wife died August 1, 1907.  Mr. Guinn was a farmer, owned and 
edited the Enterprise Publisher, Wedowee, from 1873 until 1875.  He was County 
Superintendent of Education between 1873 and 1888 and was U. S. Storekeeper and 
Gauger under Cleveland's first administrati

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