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Larry Miller recently asked about information available on black Confederate
veterans from Alabama. In researching this, a wonderful resource website was
located - http://blackconfederatesoldiers.com/alabama-state-records.html. The website provides a few photographs of
these veterans at reunions as well as two lists, one from the National Archives
and Records Administration and one for pensioners from the Alabama Civil War
Service Database. A report recently
provided by Tyrone Crowley from the July 23, 1904 Montgomery Advertiser documented a reunion of the UCV Camp
Wadsworth and remaining members of the Prattville Dragoons noting, “Monroe Stuart,
(present, who) belonged to the late Mr. George L. Stuart, loaded guns at
Vicksburg, was in prison for months, refused pardon to remain in the fight, and
as he came out of prison, took the clothes off a dead Confederate soldier, put
them on, and stayed by the side of Col. H. J. Livingston the last
two
years of the war.”
Burrell,
Body Servant of John Wallace Comer, CSA 2nd Lieutenant; 57th Alabama Infantry (http://blackconfederatesoldiers.com/alabama-state-records.html)
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