| Summary: | 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.
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