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Soldier Roots - C
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Can you tell me more? I am collecting short Biographies on each soldier from an Alabama unit to be displayed on the Soldier Roots pages. With each Bio, I will display the Email address of the contributor or contributors as source/contacts for other researchers. Send the following information to me, Carolyn Golowka.

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ADAH stands for the Alabama Department of Archives and History. ADAH is linked to the Civil War Service Database, which is a treasure trove for Alabama Civil War researchers. For more information about this database, click here

CWSS stands for the Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System, which is the National Parks Service's database with 6.3 million names of those who served in the Civil War, both Union and Confederate. For more information on this database, click here.

Some Civil War veterans eventually lived the last part of their lives in the Mountain Creek Soldiers Home in Chilton County, Alabama. A list of some of its residents from 1901 to October 1933 can be found by clicking here.

Confederate Memorial Park is located in Southeast Chilton County and is administered by the Alabama Historical Commission. Confederate Memorial Park was the site of Alabama's only Confederate veterans home (Mountain Creek Soldiers Home). The facility was in operation from 1902 to 1939 for the care of elderly veterans and their wives and widows. Of the many hundreds who resided at the facility, 313 were buried in one of the two cemeteries located at this site. Cemetery #1 is the original cemetery, and was used from 1902 to 1911, when Cemetery #2 was opened.

Soldier's Information - C Index

Surnames starting with Ca through Cl

Surnames starting with Co through Cu

Soldiers Ca-Cl

CAGLE William B. (Private, Company E, 13th Alabama Infantry Regiment) Married Farmer age 33 from Bough & Ready, Georgia; Enlisted March 3, 1862 at Eastville Alabama; Present: Siege of Yorktown April 10, 1862 to May 3, 1862;Absent sick at: Seven Pines May 31, 1862, Mechanicsville June 27, 1862, Cold Harbor June 27, 1862, Malvern Hill July 1, 1862, South Mountain September 14, 1862, Sharpsburg September 17, 1862, Chancellorsville May 3, 1863; Severely wounded at: Gettysburg July 1, 1863, Falling Water July 14, 1863, Gaines Cross Roads July 24, 1863; Killed October 14, 1863. Residence. Historical record roll signed near Petersburg, Virginia December 31, 1864 . Source: ADAH
CAIN, Daniel Green (Private, Company H,, 53rd Alabama Calvary) Promoted to Sergeant; Enlisted September 1862 in Elba, AL; discharged April 10, 1865 in Columbus, SC, paroled; wounded at the Battle of Missionary Ridge, VA.  Pension application #10573 gave address in 1907-1908 as RFD #2, Enterprise, A' was witnessed by J. M. Walker and A. J. N. Walker..  Widow Martha Cain made a pension application, #26418; witnessed by B. H. Mixon, J. Q. Wise, T. W. Morgan and R. L. Morgan.. Source: ADAH
CALAWAY, Cyrus (Private, Company A, 12th Alabama Infantry Regiment) Buried at Point Lookout Maryland. Source: Point Lookout POW Descendants Organization
CALDWELL, William T., (Private, Company A, 21st Alabama Infantry Regiment) Died December 29, 1864 at Elmira Military Prison, Elmira New York. Buried in Plot Number 1307 at Woodlawn National Cemetery.
CALL, Thomas (Private, Company A, 35th Alabama) Captured: December 4, 1862 Water Valley, Mississippi; Died February 7, 1863 Variola at Alton Federal Military Prison Illinois
CAMERON (CAMBRON), Simon (Private, Company G, 42nd Alabama Infantry Regiment) Enlisted September 21, 1862l.  Simon was reported missing at the Battle of Corinth, MS, in October of 1862. He was captured at Oxford, MS, on December 3, 1862, and transferred to Alton Military Prison in Alton, Illinois. He died there on February 25, 1863, from chronic diarrhea. He is probably buried there.  Simon Cambron was born about 1827 in Georgia, the son of William and Alaney Cambron. Simon was a blacksmith by trade as were most of the Cambron men.  Sources: Civil War Soldiers and Sailors Database (listed as Simon Cameron); Ken Glass
CAMERON, Shelby Chadwick (Private, Shockley's Escort Company, Cadets from the University of Alabama; to learn more about this company, click here.  )  Born January 26, 1846, enlisted 1864.  For a complete biography on Shelby Chadwick Cameron, click here.
CAMERON, William R., (Private, Company B, 6th Alabama Infantry Regiment) Died March 12, 1865 at Elmira Military Prison, Elmira New York. Buried in Plot Number 1640 at Woodlawn National Cemetery.
CAMP, B. (Private, Company L, 1st Alabama Cavalry Regiment) Burial at Chattanooga’s Confederate Cemetery, Chattanooga's Confederate Cemetery
CAMP, M. M. (Private, Company B, 51st Alabama Infantry Regiment) Burial at Chattanooga’s Confederate Cemetery, Chattanooga's Confederate Cemetery
CAMPBELL, Allen J., (Private, Company F, 1st Alabama Artillery) Died January 03, 1865 at Elmira Military Prison, Elmira New York. Buried in Plot Number 1344 at Woodlawn National Cemetery.
CANNON, E. (Private, Company H, 45th Alabama Infantry Regiment) Burial at Chattanooga’s Confederate Cemetery, Chattanooga's Confederate Cemetery
CANNON, John (Private, 4th Alabama Battery) Captured: December 1, 1862 Oxford Mississippi; Died January 14, 1863 at Alton Federal Military Prison Illinois
CANNON, Simeon O (Private, Company C, 42nd Alabama Infantry Regiment) Enlisted April 19, 1862 in Mobile, Alabama as listed on the Muster Roll dated May 16, 1862 at Columbus Mississippi. Cannon is listed in the original roster for McNeil/s Home Guard, Mobile, AL, dated April 2, 1862   Source:  ADAH; Civil War Soldiers and Sailors Database
CANNON, W. R. (Private, Company ,12th Alabama Infantry Regiment) Buried at Point Lookout Maryland. Source: Point Lookout POW Descendants Organization
CANTELOU, John Ransford (Private Company F, 7th Alabama Cavalry Regiment “Rucker's Escort”) Enlisted July 1863 at Tuscaloosa, Alabama Personal Statement: Census Tax Assessor Montgomery County 1907. Not Paid, Photo original muster roll datd at Pollard, Alabama October 31, 1863; Last paid by Captain Hyer December 31, 1863. Post Office: Montgomery, Alabama Authority: Photo original muster roll dated at Pollard, Alabama December 31, 1863. Source: ADAH
CANTELOU, Lamar (Private, Company E, 6th Alabama Infantry Regiment) Lamar Cantelou was born December 23, 1839; Enlisted May 7, 1861 at Montgomery Alabama; Name appears on a Muster Roll dated a Fairfax Station on July 12, 1861 and a Muster Roll dated at Sangster's Cross Roads August 31, 1861. 1907 address Wetumpka, Alabama . Sources: ADAH Census, Tax Collector, Elmore County, Alabama 1907-8
CANTELOU, Lewis (Private, Company E, 6th Alabama Infantry Regiment) Lewis Cantelou Enlisted March 1, 1862 in Lowndes County. Sick in Richmond since August 1, 1862; Sick in Richmond since August 30, 1862; Partial Muster List Guinney's Station, Virginia December 1, 1862; Name appears on Pay roll dated April, 1, 1864, Camp Terrell, Virginia; Pay Roll January to June 1864; Pay roll dated near New Market, Virginia November 15, 1864. Source: ADAH
CANTELOU Lewis H. (Private, Company K, 1st Alabama Infantry Regiment) Enlisted March 17, 1861 Sandy Ridge, Alabama; Continued until end of war. Wounded at Cedar Run, Virginia, sent home on furlough unable for service afterwards. Paroled at Montgomery, Alabama. Authority: Personal Statement census Tax Assessor Lee County 1907 Source: ADAH
CANTELOW William L. (Private, Company M, 6th Alabama Infantry Regiment/  J. F. Clements Local Defense Infantry) William Lemuel Cantelou was born December 20, 1835 in Upson County Georgia; died May 6, 1882 in Jefferson County Alabama the son of Epsey E. Bowden and Louis Marshall Cantelou. William moved to Lowndes County Alabama with his parents, brother and paternal grandmother as a child. William married 1st on February 1, 1859 in Lowndes County Alabama to Rebecca Adaline Powell born October 15, 1839; died October 24, 1860 in Lowndes County Alabama the daughter of  Elizabeth W. Smith and Allen Powell (b. Virginia April 20, 1791- d. 1873 near Hayneville, Alabama) One Child: Willie Cantelou. Married 2nd to Josie Connally and they moved to Birmingham, Alabama and were the parents of five Children. William enlisted April 17, 1861 Hayneville, Lowndes County Alabama. Muster in roll dated Fairfax, Virginia June 30, 1861. According to a Report Camp Davis, Virginia December 1861, William was discharged due to Rheumatism. His name appears in a Muster-in roll dated August 8, 1864 at Hayneville, Alabama for the J. F. Clements Local Defense Infantry. Sources: James McFerrin Key of Conway Arkansas; "The House of Cantelou & Co." by Stephen McLeod; ADAH
CAPPS, W. C., (Private, Company L, 3rd Alabama Infantry Regiment) Died January 27, 1865 at Elmira Military Prison, Elmira New York. Buried in Plot Number 1431 at Woodlawn National Cemetery.
CAPPS, W. H. (Private, Company E, 45th Alabama Infantry Regiment) Burial at Chattanooga’s Confederate Cemetery, Chattanooga's Confederate Cemetery
CARGILE, Richard C. (Private, Company C,  19th Alabama Infantry Regiment) Burial at Chattanooga’s Confederate Cemetery, Chattanooga's Confederate Cemetery
CARLTON, R. H. (Private, Company H,  34th Alabama Infantry Regiment) Burial at Chattanooga’s Confederate Cemetery, Chattanooga's Confederate Cemetery
CARMICHAEL, J. H. (Private, unknown unit.) b. February 20, 1847 – d. September 22, 1898 and Buried Enterprise City Cemetery, North Main Street, Enterprise, Coffee County, Alabama. Source: the late Homer Jones
CARMAN, John, (Private, Company E, 12th Alabama Infantry Regiment) Died February 05, 1865 at Elmira Military Prison, Elmira New York. Buried in Plot Number 1905 at Woodlawn National Cemetery.
CARR, Henry (Private, Company H, 61st Alabama Infantry Regiment) Enlisted July or August, 1863; captured, transferred to the Point Lookout Prison Camp, Maryland, where he died and is buried. Source: Point Lookout POW Descendants Organization
CARR, James Jasper (Musician, Company B, 57th Alabama Infantry) Born May 4, 1838, in Pike County, Alabama; enlisted in 1863 as a musician; transferred 12 months later to Company H.  Lived in Eufaula, Alabama in the 1907 Barbour County tax rolls.  Source:  ADAH.
CARR, Joseph J. (Private, Company G, 15th Alabama Infantry Regiment) enlisted in July 1861 in Abbeville, age 22; wounded at Sharpsburg (Antietam), Maryland September 17, 1862 and died October 1, 1862.   Source: the late Homer Jones
CARR, Joseph M., (Private, Company G, 27th Alabama Infantry Regiment)  Surrendered May 1, 1865 in North Carolina.   Source: the late Homer Jones
CARR, T. J. (Private, Company F, 11th Alabama Cavalry) Source:  The Civil War Soldiers & Sailors System.
CARR, Thomas (Private, Company H, 40th Alabama Infantry Regiment)  Source:  The Civil War Soldiers & Sailors System.
CARR, Thomas G. (Private, Company F, 28th Alabama Infantry Regiment) Sources:  ADAH, The Civil War Soldiers & Sailors System.
CARR, Tim (Capt. Campbell's Company, Mobile County Reserves, Alabama Militia or Home Guard) Enlisted November 6, 1863.  Sources:  ADAH, The Civil War Soldiers & Sailors System.
CARR, Trion  (Private, Company B, 57th Alabama Infantry Regiment) Born March 20, 1827 and died May 18, 1897 buried Carr Family Cemetery, Barbour County; married I believe Lucy A. Holmes (d. 1916); any-one know who his parents were? Called into service at Greenville January 25, 1863; being formed that late in the war, a larger number of men in the regiment were in their 40's; Company B was made-up almost totally of old men and young boys from Barbour under the command of Captain James W. Mabry; was assigned first to duty at Pollard, Alabama and remained until ordered to join the Army of Tennessee at Dalton, Georgia; a real tuff bunch, fought all thru the Atlanta Campaign, at Franklin and Nashville and finally in North Carolina at the surrender; Trion was not among those paroled there May 1, 1865; late in the war Company B, 57th  Alabama Infantry Regiment became Company G, 27th Alabama Infantry Regiment.   Source: the late Homer Jones
CARR, William Y. (Private, Company G, 15th Alabama Infantry Regiment) William Young Carr born November 18, 1840 Putnam County, Georgia - died May 22, 1924 Henry County, Alabama The son of Miss Buckner and Daniel Carr. enlisted at July 1861 in Abbeville and continued until paroled at Appomattox, Virginia in April 1865; served as a Teamster during the major portion of the war. Married (1) a Miss Snow (2) Malinda J. Searcy Creel, 1835-1897, widow of William Creel (3) Ada (Arie?) Stevens, 1873-1912; William buried City Cemetery at Abbeville, Malinda J. at Edwin Cemetery, Henry County. Couple of notes: William was elected Henry County Treasurer in August 1896 and was still in office as late as 1904-5; also, responded to the 1921 Confederate Soldiers Census for Henry, should be a great deal of family information there; listed as William Young  at ADAH and W. Y. Carr at NARA.  Source: the late Homer Jones
CARROLL, John Jr. (Private, Company G, 11th Alabama Infantry Regiment) wounded at Gaines Mill Virginia on June 27, 1862 and died July 6, 1862.
CARROLL, Robert C. (Private, Company G, 11th Alabama Infantry Regiment) died Bristoe Station Virginia on  September 15, 1861 of typhoid.
CARTER, Isaac (Private, Company I, 29th Alabama Infantry Regiment) is already listed, but his fate is listed as "unknown."  Isaac Henry Carter was born in October 1833 in Alabama and died February 8, 1928, in the Confederate Soldiers Old Age Home in Sweet Home, Pulaski County, Arkansas.  He was married to Eliza Browning on June 22, 1855, in Pike County, Alabama. They were the parents of at least six children.  Isaac moved his family to Grant County, Arkansas, in about 1870 and lived there continuously until he was admitted into the Confederate Soldiers Old Age Home in 1925. In July 1901, he applied for (Application No. 18155) and received a Confederate Pension from the State of Arkansas. Both Isaac and his wife are buried in the New Friendship Cemetery, Shaw, Saline County, Arkansas.  His headstone indicates the unit he served with in the war. Source:  John T. Hull
Isaac enlisted August 21, 1862 at Camp Lee, Alabama.; if  I am not mistaken, Camp Lee was near Pollard in Escambia County; the 29th was in that area for a number of months. The 29th was made-up mostly of those from Conecuh and Covington counties.   Source: the late Homer Jones
CARTER, Isaac (Private, Company E, 9th Alabama Cavalry Regiment) Enlisted 1862 into Malone's unit, Lauderdale County, Ingrams Cross Roads, sometimes part of the 7th Cavalry;  mustered out as a Sergeant Cavalry.  Sources:  ADAH; The Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System.
CARTER, S. M. (Private, Company F, 8th Alabama Cavalry Regiment) [January 30, 1840 - March 6, 1922] Buried Eastland Cemetery Eastland County Texas
CAST, Samuel M. (Private, Company A, 10th Alabama Infantry Regiment) Buried at Point Lookout Maryland.
CASTLEBERRY, Jerry M., (Company G, 59th Alabama Infantry Regiment) buried in Upper Greens Creek Cemetery, Erath County, Texas.
CHAMBERS, Robert T. (Private, Company D, 4th Alabama Infantry Regiment) Died September18, 1862. Buried Warrenton Cemetery, Warrenton, Fauquier County, Virginia.
CHAMBLISS, David, (Private, Company E, 1st Alabama Artillery) Died February 18, 1865 at Elmira Military Prison, Elmira New York. Buried in Plot Number 2147 at Woodlawn National Cemetery.
CHAMPION, Henry (Private, Company B, 11th Alabama Infantry Regiment) died Danville Virginia Hospital on June 16, 1862 of disease.
CHAMPION, John James (Private, Company A, 23rd Alabama Infantry Regiment) (b. 1819 in South Carolina – d. May 17, 1892)   Source: Lou West
CHAMPION, John R. (Private, Company B, 38th Alabama Infantry Regiment) (b. January 1841 in Clarke County, Alabama – d. Unknown) the John James Champion   Source:  Lou West
CHAMPION,  James Thomas (Private, Company B, 38th Alabama Infantry Regiment)  (b. June 13, 1844 in Wilcox County, Alabama – d. Unknown) the son of John James Champion  Source:  Lou West
CHAMPION, William Yancey (Private, Company A, 23rd Alabama Infantry Regiment) (b. December 9,1846 in Clarke County, Alabama – d. October 19, 1920 in Clarke County, Alabama) the John James Champion  Source:  Lou West
CHAMPION, Uriah F. (Private, Company A, 45th Alabama Infantry Regiment) Uriah Franklin Champion born October 27, 1847 – died 1918; Enlisted March 1864 Clayton Alabama.  Address 1907, Blue Springs, Barbour County Alabama. Authority: Census, Tax Collector, Barbour County, Alabama. 1907   Source: the late Homer Jones;  ADAH.
CHANCE, Augustus James (Private, Company D, 6th Alabama Cavalry) and buried Mount Zion Primitive Baptist Church Cemetery Henry County Alabama
CHANCEY, John N. (Private, Company E, 59th Alabama Infantry,) b. 1838 – d. November 22, 1871 and Buried Enterprise City Cemetery, North Main Street, Enterprise, Coffee County, Alabama
CHAPMAN, A. J. (Private, Company E, 24th Alabama Infantry Regiment) Burial at Chattanooga’s Confederate Cemetery, Chattanooga Tennessee
CHAPMAN, Amos (Private, Company E, 24th Alabama Infantry Regiment) Burial at Chattanooga’s Confederate Cemetery, Chattanooga Tennessee
CHAPMAN, George W., (Private, Company B, 1st Battalion Alabama Artillery) Died June 09, 1865 at Elmira Military Prison, Elmira New York. Buried in Plot Number 2589 at Woodlawn National Cemetery.
CHAPMAN, John H., (Private Company I, 4th Alabama Militia) b. October 5, 1847 – d. January 21, 1932 buried at Magnolia Cemetery, Andalusia Covington County Alabama.  
CHAPMAN, M. (Lieutenant, Company E, 19th Alabama Infantry Regiment) Burial at Chattanooga’s Confederate Cemetery, Chattanooga Tennessee
CHEATHAM, J. S. (Private, Company C, 33rd Alabama Infantry Regiment) Burial at Chattanooga’s Confederate Cemetery, Chattanooga Tennessee
CHERRY, John William (Private, Company C, 35th Alabama Infantry Regiment) Burial at Chattanooga’s Confederate Cemetery, Chattanooga Tennessee
CHERRY, John W. (Private, Company C, 25th Alabama Infantry Regiment “Shelby Confederates) Died of rubella at Academy Hospital, Chattanooga Tennessee, April 24, 1863   
CHESTERFIELD, Ivie (Private, Company H, 28th Alabama Infantry Regiment) Burial at Chattanooga’s Confederate Cemetery, Chattanooga Tennessee
CHILDS, Aaron Henry (Private, Company G, 5th Alabama Infantry) SEE CHILES. A. H.
 CHILES, A. H. (Private, Company G, 5th Alabama Infantry) He enlisted at Dundee, Alabama on August 30, 1862 and was paroled at Appomattox April 9, 1865.  He is buried at Mt Gilead Cemetery in Houston County, Alabama.  I have a copy of the parole at Appomattox, also an application for a pension dated December 30, 1901.   Source:  Jim Childs
CHISHOLM, Richard F (Private, Company G, 6th Alabama Infantry Regiment) Enlisted May 6, 1861, Montgomery, Alabama, by Major McLean, later Company H. Sources:  ADAH; The Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System.

CHISOLM, Robert J. (Captain, Home Guard Henry County Militia, Woodsville Scouts/ Captain/ R. J. Chisolm’s Cavalry, Militia Local Defense Beat 1, Henry County) Exempt by substitution from Confederate Service. Age 27, Captain, Muster roll January 28, 1863 for Substitution Army, Muster in roll, August 15, 1863 Age 28, Alabama, Henry County, Captain R. J. Chisolm's Cavalry. Sources:  ADAH; The Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System.
CLARK, R E (Corporal, Company G, 42nd Alabama) Captured December 3, 1862 at Oxford Mississippi; Died January 14, 1863 of Diarrhea at Alton Federal Military Prison Illinois
CLARK, Dr. William F. (Company H, 26th Alabama Volunteer Infantry Regiment) He is buried in the Fulton Bridge Baptist Church Cemetery, in Hamilton, Marion County, Alabama. THEXSTICH@aol.com 
CLARY, Richard M. (Private Company I, 15th Alabama Infantry Regiment) b. June 24, 1840 – d. June 6, 1921 buried at Beda Cemetery NW of Florala Covington County Alabama  
CLAYTON, J. W., (Private, Company I, 7th Alabama Cavalry) Died December 31, 1864 at Elmira Military Prison, Elmira New York. Buried in Plot Number 1319 at Woodlawn National Cemetery.
CLEMENT, A. J. (Private, Company E, 16th Alabama Infantry Regiment) Burial at Chattanooga’s Confederate Cemetery, Chattanooga's Confederate Cemetery
CLOWER, Noah L. (Private, Company G, 61st Alabama Infantry Regiment) Died Noah L., August 08, 1864 at Elmira Military Prison, Elmira New York. Buried in Plot Number 140 at Woodlawn National Cemetery.

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