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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.
Items needed for Bio, but will take anything I can get:
- Soldier’s birth and death dates with locations and burial location.
- Soldier’s parents names and birth and death dates with locations and burial location
- Spouse’s name and birth and death dates with locations and burial location
- Children’s names and birth and death dates with locations and burial location
- Letters
- Military Records
- Photos
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.
Alabama Civil War Roots: Soldier Roots - Surname M Index
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MEADOWS, James Daniel (Captain, Company F (later Company A), 1st Alabama Infantry Regiment, "Tallapoosa Rifles") Born January 9, 1827 in Thomaston, Upson County, Georgia. Mustered In: Montgomery County, Alabama, March 20, 1861. Muster Roll of Captain James D. Meadows Company F, Tallapoosa Rifles, Alabama Volunteers, First Regiment, CSA. Date: September 18,1861, Station: Ft Barrancas, Florida. Signed: Lt Alfred Johnson, Commanding the Company. Muster Roll of Captain James D. Meadow's Company A of the 1st Alabama Regiment of Volunteers, Army of CSA, Col T. G. W. Steedman, from October 31, 1861, when last mustered to December 31,1862. Commanded Co A, First Alabama Volunteers (Infantry) from December 31, 1862 until February 28, 1863 He participated in the Pensacola Campaign 1861, the Battle of Island Number Ten 1862, and at Port Hudson, Louisiana. He surrendered first at Island Number Ten, Lake County, Tennessee, April 8,1862, was imprisoned at Camp Chase, Ohio & Johnson's Island, Ohio and exchanged at Aiken's Landing, James River, Virginia. On sick leave of absence beginning September 21, 1862, ending November 20, 1862. He again surrendered at Port Hudson, East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana, July 9,1863, was imprisoned at New Orleans, Louisiana, Fort Columbus, Fort Jay, New York, Johnson's Island, Ohio, Point Lookout, Maryland & and then Fort Delaware, Delaware. After that he went on to become one of the immortal 600. On August 20, 1864, a chosen group of 600 Confederate officers left Fort Delaware as prisoners of war, bound for the Union Army base at Hilton Head, South Carolina. Their purpose--to be placed in a stockade in front of the Union batteries at the siege of Charleston. This continued until a yellow fever epidemic forced the federal command to transfer the surviving Confederate officers from the open stockade at Morris Island to Fort Pulaski. On October 23, 1864, 550 tired, ill-clothed, men arrived at Cockspur Island. At first, the emaciated troops received extra rations, and were promised wool blankets and clothing. However, despite the best intentions of the garrison command,the prisoners never received sufficient food, blankets or clothes. Captain Meadows was admitted to the Fort Delaware prison hoppital on June 27, 1864 after being shot by a Union guard and discharged back to the prison barracks on July 28, 1864. After the war, Captain Meadows took the Oath of Allegiance on June 12, 1865 while housed in "Division 38," a barracks room number in the officer pen on Pea Patch Island. Meadows was a delagate to the 1875 Alabama Constitutional Convention in Montgomery Alabama (September 6 - October 2, 1875), representing Tallapoosa County. He was the sheriff of Tallapoosa County at one time. He and his wife, Mary Jan Johnston, were members of the Primitive Baptist Church. Mary died April 12, 1894 and was buried in the Johnston Cemetery, Walnut Hill, Tallapoosa County, Alabama. James died January 14, 1900 in Dadeville, Tallapoosa County, Alabama and was buried next to Mary. They are buried with several of their seven children who died young. Sources: Patrick Aitken, ADAH
MEADOWS, William S. (Private, Company C, 63rd Alabama Infantry Regiment) born 1847 – died 1920; living in Houston County Alabama. Sources: the late Homer Jones
MEREDITH, Matthew Engram, (Private, Company H, 15th Alabama Infantry Regiment) Matthew was born April 3, 1830 in Alabama - died July 9, 1907 in Pike County, Alabama. and buried at Sandfield Church cemetery near Troy, in Pike County, Alabama. the son of William Meredith and Clia Ingram. Matthew married on December 27, 1853, in Pike County, Alabama, to Mary Ann Reeves, born 1834 in Alabama and died September 11, 1904 in Pike County, Alabama and buried beside her husband at Sandfield Church cemetery near Troy, in Pike County, Alabama. Mary Ann was the daughter of David and Elizabeth Reeves. Known children were Nancy Ann Meredith (m. William Henry Reeves), Amanda ("Mandy") Meredith (m. William Hardy Golden) and Martha ("Mattie") Meredith (m. Reverend Aaron Green). Nancy Ann Meredith and her husband William Henry Reeves are buried in the Old Canaan Cemetery, near Troy, in Pike County, Alabama. Amanda "Mandy" Meredith, her husband William Hardy Golden, Martha "Mattie" Meredith and her husband Rev. Aaron Green are buried at Sandfield Church cemetery near Troy, in Pike County, Alabama. (Matthew Engram Meredith is my great-great grandfather.) Source: Judith Fowler
MERRIAM, William, (Private, Company C, 1st Alabama Artillery) Died March 13, 1865 at Elmira Military Prison, Elmira New York. Buried in Plot Number 1823 at Woodlawn National Cemetery.
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