Captain Shockley's Company of Cavalry Tablet

View of Captain Shockley's Company of cavalry tablet, University of Alabama This is a photograph of a tablet in memoriam of Captain Bascom T. Shockly's escort company of cavalry. IN MEMORIUM PERPETUAM Captain Bascom T. Shockly’s escort company of cavalry in the hour of their country’s pe...

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collection Eugene Allen Smith Collection
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publisher University of Alabama Libraries
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Captain Shockley's Company of Cavalry Tablet
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Plaques; University of Alabama. Military Department; Military cadets; Military education--Alabama--Tuscaloosa
description View of Captain Shockley's Company of cavalry tablet, University of Alabama This is a photograph of a tablet in memoriam of Captain Bascom T. Shockly's escort company of cavalry. IN MEMORIUM PERPETUAM Captain Bascom T. Shockly’s escort company of cavalry in the hour of their country’s peril unmindful of self and fired only by patriotic devotion Bascom T. Shockly and nineteen students of the UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA joined themselves with twenty nine other Alabama youths in the formation of an escort company of cavalry which in 1864 entered the service of the CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA They had their first baptism of fire on June 24, 1864 served faithfully with Brig. Gen. Dan Adams as his escort to the close of the unequal struggle of the South for separate state sovereignty and were paroled at Gainesville, Alabama, on May 10, 1865 Shockly, Bascom T. Capt. Burt, Henry M. 1st Lieut. Miller, John H. 2nd Lieut. Watkins, John P. 3rd Lieut. Webb, Wm. T. 1st Sergt. Cowin, Thos. E. 2nd Sergt. Driskell, Thos. J. 3rd Sergt. Scott, David M.C. 4th Sergt. Allen, Joseph M. Chadwich, E. S. Galloway, A. G. McGraw, Waters Rosser, Henry Archer, Chas. S. Christian, Wm. C. Gilmer, Morgan S. McLemore, Moses Sawyer, Thos. Barker, Chas. L. Clopton, Wm. H. Hale, C. H. Moore, Wm. W. Stoddard, J. Thos. Bean, Jas. Collins, J. W. Harris, Bayless E. Patton, Robert W. Stroud, Alonzo B. Bender, D. Jule Conner, Junius K. Harris, Jas. M. Perkins, J. Hampden Syring, Frank P. Billbry, Geo. W. Crum, Aug. W. Harrison, Jas. T. Pittman, Jas. F. Watt, Jas. H. Calloway, Darby M. Crusoe, Chas. W. Jones, Wm. Clarence Pitts, P. Henry Weathers, Wm. Carson, Shelby C. Elgin, Rich’d P. Lewis, Wm. T. Rivers, Wm. Jones Webb, Lucius D. Frazer, Nathan H. Robertson, Wm. J. To commemorate these facts and to preserve the names of these young heroes this tablet is placed by the Montgomery County Chapter of Yallerhammers on the third day of June 1914, May F. Steiner, Chapter PresT. Annie H. Spann, State Prest. Wm. Gerard Fowler, Treas. Mary G. Burnett, Treas. For contact and permanent location information regarding this retired plaque, contact: Planroom, Campus Support Services, Building 1003, planroom@fa.ua.edu. The digitization of this collection was funded by a gift from EBSCO Industries.
spelling Captain Shockley's Company of Cavalry TabletStillImage; photographsca. 1900zxxelectronic; image/jpeg; 1 nitrate negative ; 4 1/2 x 6 1/2 in.View of Captain Shockley's Company of cavalry tablet, University of Alabama This is a photograph of a tablet in memoriam of Captain Bascom T. Shockly's escort company of cavalry. IN MEMORIUM PERPETUAM Captain Bascom T. Shockly’s escort company of cavalry in the hour of their country’s peril unmindful of self and fired only by patriotic devotion Bascom T. Shockly and nineteen students of the UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA joined themselves with twenty nine other Alabama youths in the formation of an escort company of cavalry which in 1864 entered the service of the CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA They had their first baptism of fire on June 24, 1864 served faithfully with Brig. Gen. Dan Adams as his escort to the close of the unequal struggle of the South for separate state sovereignty and were paroled at Gainesville, Alabama, on May 10, 1865 Shockly, Bascom T. Capt. Burt, Henry M. 1st Lieut. Miller, John H. 2nd Lieut. Watkins, John P. 3rd Lieut. Webb, Wm. T. 1st Sergt. Cowin, Thos. E. 2nd Sergt. Driskell, Thos. J. 3rd Sergt. Scott, David M.C. 4th Sergt. Allen, Joseph M. Chadwich, E. S. Galloway, A. G. McGraw, Waters Rosser, Henry Archer, Chas. S. Christian, Wm. C. Gilmer, Morgan S. McLemore, Moses Sawyer, Thos. Barker, Chas. L. Clopton, Wm. H. Hale, C. H. Moore, Wm. W. Stoddard, J. Thos. Bean, Jas. Collins, J. W. Harris, Bayless E. Patton, Robert W. Stroud, Alonzo B. Bender, D. Jule Conner, Junius K. Harris, Jas. M. Perkins, J. Hampden Syring, Frank P. Billbry, Geo. W. Crum, Aug. W. Harrison, Jas. T. Pittman, Jas. F. Watt, Jas. H. Calloway, Darby M. Crusoe, Chas. W. Jones, Wm. Clarence Pitts, P. Henry Weathers, Wm. Carson, Shelby C. Elgin, Rich’d P. Lewis, Wm. T. Rivers, Wm. Jones Webb, Lucius D. Frazer, Nathan H. Robertson, Wm. J. To commemorate these facts and to preserve the names of these young heroes this tablet is placed by the Montgomery County Chapter of Yallerhammers on the third day of June 1914, May F. Steiner, Chapter PresT. Annie H. Spann, State Prest. Wm. Gerard Fowler, Treas. Mary G. Burnett, Treas. For contact and permanent location information regarding this retired plaque, contact: Planroom, Campus Support Services, Building 1003, planroom@fa.ua.edu. The digitization of this collection was funded by a gift from EBSCO Industries.Plaques; University of Alabama. Military Department; Military cadets; Military education--Alabama--TuscaloosaThe University of Alabama Libraries Special CollectionsEugene Allen Smith Collectionu0001_2007005_0000522http://purl.lib.ua.edu/46268https://archives.lib.ua.edu/repositories/3/resources/16472007.005.000562Images are in the public domain or protected under U.S. copyright law (Title 17, U.S. Code), and both types may be used for research and private study. For publication, commercial use, or reproduction, in print or digital format, of all images and/or the accompanying data, users are required to secure prior written permission from the copyright holder and from archives@ua.edu. When permission is granted, please credit the images as Courtesy of The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections. http://cdm17336.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p17336coll1/id/605
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