Calhoun-Talladega-Montgomery-Saint Clair Counties AlArchives Military Records Members of the 10th AL Regiment Buried Near Bristoe Station, Manassas, Prince William Co., VA, . October 27, 1883 Civilwar ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/al/alfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Candace (Teal) Gravelle tealtree@comcast.net September 28, 2006, 10:58 pm 10th Alabama: Burials At Manasses, Va. "The Jacksonville Republican" Jacksonville, Calhoun Co., Alabama NEWSPAPER issue of Saturday, NOVEMBER 10, 1883 INFORMATION IN BRACKETS [ ] ADDED BY CAROLYN GOLOWKA SOURCES: ALABAMA DEPARTMENT OF ARCHIVES AND HISTORY http://www.archives.state.al.us/civilwar/search.cfm & THE CIVIL WAR SOLDIERS AND SAILORS SYSTEM http://www.itd.nps.gov/cwss/soldiers.cfm BENEATH THE CEDARS LIE MANY HEROES OF THE TENTH ALABAMA The following considerate letter from a christian gentleman of Virginia is gladly given place in these columns: MANASSES, PRINCE WILLIAM CO., VIRGINIA Oct. 27, 1883 To Editor: " Dear Sir, Near Bristoe Station on the Virginia Midland Railroad, there are about one hundred graves of the Tenth Alabama Regiment. They are in a grove of small cedars which have come up since the men were buried. The old cedars were cut to make head boards. I felt impressed with the thought that perhaps some parents or friends heart has wondered where their loved were lying, and concluded if it would be of any consolation, I would take the trouble to get as many names as I could and send them to you for publication. The following is the list I obtained. Many of the boards are gone and some had no name while others had been worn too indistinct to read: Allen, R.A. Adams, W.P., Co. A., 1861 Barr, T.A., Died August 23, 1861; aged 22 years, 5 months and 12 days [Thomas A. Barr, Company D, enlisted as a private June 4, 1861; died of disease in camp; residence Silver Runn, Talladega County, Alabama] Booxar, J.O. Coleman, S.L. [Sydney L. Coleman, married, age 30, Company F, enlisted as 2nd sergeant June 4, 1861; killed Dranesville, Virginia December 20, 1861; residence Cropwell, Saint Clair County, Alabama] Cravys, J.W. Davis, Cyrus [single, age 21, Company F, enlisted as a private June 4, 1861; died of disease at Bristow, Virgina September 30, 1861l residence Cropwell, Saint Clair County, Alabama] Dunlap, R.G. [Robert G. Dunlap, married, age 19, Company F, enlisted as a private June 4, 1861; died in action December 20, 1861, residence Cropwell, Saint Clair County, Alabama] Dickinson, W.H. Born February 1, 1841; died August 10, 1861 [single, age 21, Company E, enlisted as a private June 4, 1861; died of fever, Bristoe, Virginia; residence Talladega County, Alabama] Gardner, L.S. Died October 12, 1861 [Lewis S. Gardner, single, age 24, Company K, enlisted as a private June 4, 1861; died of disease October 1, 1861; residence Fayetteville, Talladega County, Alabama] Haines, S.H., Co. E. [S.H.H. Haynes, single, age 24, Company E, enlisted as a private June 4, 1861; died of disease August 23, 1861; residence Talladega County, Alabama] King, B.F., Co. G. [Benjamin F. King, single, age 25; Company I, appointed 1st Lieutenant June 4, 1861; died of disease August 30, 1861 Bristoe Station, Virginia; residence P.O. Willis Valley, Alabama; born Cass Co., Georgia] King. W.W. [William W. King, private, Company I] These two are brothers and were buried at the same. Beneath the inscription are the initials "A.F.H." On W.W. King's board is "By A.F.H." Leatherwood, J.E., Company D., died September 8, 1861. This is on a brown stone and well executed. [Jessie E. Leatherwood, single, age 20, Company D, enlisted as a private June 4, 1861; died of disease September 2, 1861 at Bristoe, Virginia; residence Alexanderia, Calhoun County, AL] Martin, J.F. [John F. Martin, single, age 23, Company F, enlisted as a private June 4, 1861; killed in action December 20, 1861, Dranesville, Fairfax County Virginia; residence Kelly's Creek, Alabama, enlisted at Cropwell, Saint Clair County, Alabama] Manters, J.F., died September 9, 1861, aged 21 years, 4 months and 12 days. Nunnely, W.D. This is on stone. [William D. Nunnelly, married, a carpenter, age 24, Company D, enlisted as a private June 4, 1861; died August 18, 1861 at Bristoe, Virginia; residence Middleton, Calhoun County, Alabama] O'Neal, J.T. [John T. O'Neal, single, age 23, Company E, enlisted as a private June 4, 1861; died of disease August 26, 1861; residence Oxford, Calhoun County, Alabama] Plexco, J.L. Ponder, M. [Malachi Ponder, private, Company G] Patterson, J.M. Pike, H.W., died October 17, 1861, aged 24. Pike, W.H.H., died September 20, 1861, aged 20 years and two months and no days. These are side by side. Prichett, F.D., Co. E., died September 19, 1861, aged 22 years, 2 months and 15 days. This is on brown stone, perhaps the best stone in the cemetery. Sprinkle, C., Co. H. This is remarkably plain. Sims, J.F., Co. D., died September 20, 1861. [James F. Sims, private, Company D] Tuck, C. Vaugh or Vaughn, J.M. [James M. Vaughn, private, Company I] Watkink, D.F., Co. G. [D. F. Watkins, private, Company G] Weaver, J.W. [John W. Weaver, private, Company G] Ward, W.M., Co. D., died October 3, 1861. [William W. Ward, private, Company D] Perhaps it would be well to have them removed to Manassas cemetery as that is about to be fenced in. Should you publish this, I wish you would send me a copy of your paper. Any information I can give I will do so. I am the pastor of the Methodist Episcopal church at this place. Address: Rev. W.T. Schooley, Manassas, Prince William Co. Va. " Something of the history of the regiment to which these dead heroes belonged will be interesting reading in this connection. This history is a most glorious one, showing, as it does, a career of sacrifice and bravery rarely equalled in the annals of warfare. The Tenth Alabama was organized in Montgomery on the fourth of July 1861 and in July went to Virginia. In that state all of its struggles were located and in that state where so many of its members lie buried, it earned its glorious record. At Winchester, Va., it was brigaded with the Ninth and Eleventh Alabama, Nineteenth Mississippi and Thirty-eighth Virginia, under Gen. E. Kirby Smith and went first under fire at Drainsville where the regiment lost 21 killed and 64 wounded. In the campaign on the Penisula, it became under the guns of Yorktown and was vigorously shelled. Then it fought at Williamsburg and lost eight-five killed and wounded. At Seven Pines, being held in reserve, the command suffered but little, but in the battle of Gaines' Mill and Frazier's Farm, it was badly cut up, losing over two hundred killed and wounded. At the second battle of Manassas, the regiment lost about thirty men and at Harper's Ferry it sustained another loss, about one half the regiment of two hundred being killed or wounded. The winter of 1862-63 was passed without serious casualty, but afterwards at Salem, when sustaining the shock of Gen. Sedgwick's corps, there was a loss of 120 out of a regiment of 400 men. Again at Gettysburg the men were mowed down by fifties. There was hot fighting next year for the gallant Tenth at the Wildnerness and at Spottsylvania, the respective losses being 50 and 60 killed and wounded. After this followed the second fight at Cold Harbor with its record of 20 killed and wounded. The month of June and August 1864 saw the regiment at Petersburg, at Hatchet's Run, at High Bridge, where the losses were 20 and 30 men. The retreat and surrender at Appamattox closes the history of this brave body of men. There were ten officers and 208 men present. One thousand four hundred and twenty-nine names had been at different times placed on the rolls. Of these, 300 fell in battle, 180 died of disease and 249 were discharged or transferred. Such is the history of the regiment; that noble band which has its representatives yet among the living, and yet other representatives lying hidden beneath the sod of the Old Dominion. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/al/calhoun/military/civilwar/other/seelist262gmt.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 5.8 Kb