E. A. LONG

E. A. Long joined the Danville Mounted Riflemen as a private.
The Riflemen was a militia unit of the Seventeenth Brigade, Texas State Troops, and was formed under Capt. S. D. Wooldridge, M. D.
E. A. Long appears only on the muster roll of September 16, 1861, and there is little known about him.
E. A. Long never appears on either the tax list or census of Montgomery County, and it is possible that he was the fourteen-year-old Ed Long who was enumerated with his parents in Houston County in 1860. This Ed was born in Texas. He would have been fifteen at the time he joined the Riflemen, and there were other boys his age who were members of the Riflemen at that time.
If this identity is correct for E. A. Long, then we would guess that he had come to the county to stay with relatives there.
Obviously, he was under age for Confederate service at the beginning of the war, the minimum age being eighteen. There are many instances of boys younger than eighteen joining the CSA, but they usually had to enlist where their true age was not known.
There are two records showing that an Ed A. Long enlisted in CSA units in Texas, but at this point we do not know if it is the same person.
In 1870, E. A. Long was not enumerated in Texas; however, an Edwin Long of approximately the right age was enumerated in Galveston County as a farmer. His wife's name was Fannie. Nothing further is known about the E. A. Long who served in the Danville Mounted Riflemen.

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