The following listed men served in the Mexican War as members of the Perry Volunteers from Perry County, Alabama that became Company C in the First Regiment of Alabama Volunteers. The details of their service is documented in my book Perry Volunteers in the Mexican War, Perry County, Alabama, First Regiment of Alabama Volunteers, 1846-1847, and the Mexican War Diary of Captain William G. Coleman published by Heritage Books, Inc.

DANIEL ALLEN was born in 1810 in Georgia and was a brick mason by trade. He lived in Perryville Beat in Perry County and was thirty-six years old when he enlisted in the Perry Volunteers. His children included William, Joshua, Frances C. and Minerva Allen. [1850 Census of Perry County, Alabama, p. 349B]

JESSE AYCOCK was born in 1826 in Alabama and was an overseer working for Mary Bagley in Heard's Beat in 1850. He was twenty years old when he enlisted for the Mexican War. Aycock was hospitalized at the General Hospital at Point Isabel on November 30, 1846. On February 5, 1847, Captain Coleman noted in his diary that Jesse Aycock rejoined the Company at Tampico after a month in the hospital. After he returned to Alabama from the war, he moved to Claiborne Parish, Louisiana in 1850, where, in September 1877, he attended a convention of Mexican War veterans with his former captain. During the War for Southern Independence, he served as a private in Company C of the 13th Battalion of Louisiana Infantry. Jesse's widow Almede W. Aycock collected a pension for his Mexican War service beginning March 30, 1888. [1850 Census of Perry County, Alabama, p. 355; Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northwest Louisiana (The Southern Publishing Company, Chicago and Nashville, 1890; Roster of Confederate Soldiers; Pension Widow's Certificate-4271; W. G. Coleman Diary]

SEABORN AYCOCK was born on September 27, 1819, in Georgia and was a farmer who owned four slaves. He lived in Perryville Beat and was twenty-six years old and married when he enlisted in the Perry Volunteers. He was elected as the first sergeant of Company C and served until he was discharged from the army on February 26, 1847, at Tampico, Mexico. During Seaborn's service in the Mexican War, he suffered considerably from disease and illness based on the numerous entries in the diary of Captain Coleman although there is no record he was ever hospitalized. In September 1846, he decided to return to Alabama but was too weak and ill to make the trip. His health improved and regressed in cycles until he was finally discharged. Seaborn married Angeline M. Ford, daughter of Seth Ford and Elizabeth Melton, on December 19, 1844, and moved to Claiborne Parish, Louisiana in 1850 with Captain Coleman. His children included Seaborn B., Jesse A. and Dorthea Aycock. During the War for Southern Independence, Aycock joined a volunteer company organized in Claiborne Parish in February 1862 that became Company G of the 25th Louisiana Infantry. Seaborn was elected Captain of the company on March 15, 1862, at New Orleans. He led his company at Corinth, Shiloh, Farmington, Perryville, and Murfreesboro. At Jonesboro, Georgia, Aycock was killed on August 31, 1864, while serving in John Bell Hood's army defending Atlanta, Georgia. The Claiborne Parish, Louisiana town of Aycock was named in honor of Seaborn's service to his country in the war. Angeline M. Aycock collected a widow's pension for Seaborn's Mexican War service beginning February 30, 1888. [Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northwest Louisiana (The Southern Publishing Company, Chicago and Nashville, 1890; 1850 Census of Perry County, Alabama, p. 351; Arthur W. Bergeron, Jr., Guide to Louisiana Confederate Military Units, 1861-1865 (LSU Press, Baton Rouge and London) pp. 133-134; Pension Widow's Certificate-4272; W. G. Coleman Diary; Perry County, Alabama Marriage License # 1619; Ann Gleason]

JAMES FRANCIS BAILEY was born on January 21, 1811, in Wilkes County, Georgia and died on April 18, 1889, at Marion, Alabama. He was a friend of Captain William G. Coleman but that friendship was strained by the differences in rank and Bailey's personality. Coleman wrote in his diary "my friend J. F. Bailey attacked with dropsy, much to my grief to discover it" showing his concern for Bailey's welfare. On other occasions, their friendship was strained as on September 26, 1846, when Coleman wrote, "my friend Jas F. Bailey became hurt with me for that which I had not intended . . . " On October 17, 1847, Coleman wrote, "J. F. B. has taken some offence and treats me coolly, for what I know not." Other entries in Coleman's diary demonstrated difficulties during the war but their friendship survived these difficulties. Bailey's father was John Guinn Bailey of Wilkes County, Georgia who moved to Perry County about 1818 and settled in the eastern part of the county near Perryville, then the county seat of government, where he became a farmer. James graduated from the University of Alabama in 1834 and the University of Virginia in 1837 with an LL.D degree. He opened a law office in Marion in 1837 where he associated himself with attorney John N. Walthall. Bailey married Ellen Amanda Mosley on December 9, 1849. After returning from the Mexican War, he ran for and was elected to the Alabama House of Representatives serving in 1847-48 and was elected the first Probate Judge of the county serving until 1865. Bailey was a secessionist, attended the 1861 Alabama Secession Convention, and voted to withdraw from the Union. After Alabama seceded from the Union, Governor Andrew Barry Moore placed Bailey on the Alabama Committee on Military Affairs. In 1860, Bailey owned seventeen slaves. Judge Bailey was a student of meteorology and developed into a pioneer of the science, writing and publishing theories that stand up well in the weather predictions of today. He was a Democrat and a member of the Siloam Baptist Church in Marion. He was a trustee of Howard College from 1853 through 1880. Bailey collected a pension for his Mexican War service beginning March 23, 1887. [Lovelace, Siloam History, p. 18; W. Stuart Harris, Heritage of Perry County, Alabama, v. I, p. 180-183; 1860 Slave Census of Perry County; Owen, Alabama Biography, v III, p. 72; 1850 Census of Perry County, Alabama, p. 371, Marion Beat; Pension SC-3367; W. G. Coleman Diary; Perry County, Alabama Marriage License # 2119]

WILLIAM B. BAILEY was discharged at Camp Alabama on the Rio Grande on August 19, 1846. He was probably disabled from service due to a severe debilitating diarrhea outbreak along the Rio Grande. Bailey married Mary Jane Mayberry on February 10, 1844, in Perry County. [W. G. Coleman Diary; Perry County, Alabama Marriage License # 1557]

JOHN W. BARRON served as a first corporal of Company C. He was promoted to fourth sergeant on August 19, 1846, at Camp Alabama. Barron was hospitalized at Vera Cruz on April 12, 1847, because of his exertions during a forced march to and from Alvarado and was left behind when his regiment marched into the interior of Mexico to Jalapa. John P. Everett replaced Barron as fourth sergeant on April 19, 1847, due to his inability to serve because of his hospitalization. In the war for Southern Independence, Barron served in Company D of the 63rd Alabama Infantry Regiment. [Roster of Confederate Soldiers]

JAMES BENNETT was the son of Reuben Bennett and Sarah Edwards and lived in the Radfordville Beat in Perry County, Alabama. James was twenty-two when he enlisted in the Perry Volunteers. While stationed at Camargo, Bennett was assigned on Saturday, October 10, 1846, to work as a blacksmith for Captain Franklin Smith. Contrary to orders, James refused to work and did not report at all on Sunday and Monday. He was put on report by Captain Smith and placed in the guardhouse on bread and water for insubordination along with four others who were insubordinate at Smith's blacksmith shop. Captain Franklin Smith of the Commissary Department wrote of Bennett in his Journal on October 12, 1846: "2 Alabamians had reported to him Saturday, Collamer and James Bennet. Collamer worked half a day Saturday-Bennet not at all. Bennet soon left-Collamer (left) at night-and neither of them ever returned." On October 13, Smith in a letter to Captain Crosman wrote of Bennett, "The names of the men are Wm. Robertson George Adams Co. I, J. Bennett Co. C, J. Bird Co. K . . . " On November 7, 1846, Bennett was "dangerously" ill at Camargo and "very sick" on January 26, 1847, at Tampico according to notes in the diary of William Coleman. He was discharged from the army on February 26, 1847, at Tampico, Mexico, along with Seaborn Aycock and William H. Jones. After the war, he returned to his father's home, married and became an overseer of his father's slaves. During the War for Southern Independence, Bennett served as a private in the 8th Alabama Infantry Regiment. He was captured at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania on July 3, 1863 and died on September 15, 1863, of disease at Point Lookout, Maryland while a prisoner of war. [1850 Censuses of Perry County, p. 345B and 1860 Censuses of Perry County, Alabama; Alabama Department of Archives and History, Civil War Service Database; Colonel Hillary A. Herbert, "History of the Eighth Alabama Volunteer Regiment," Alabama Historical Quarterly, p. 306]

JOHN C BLASSINGAME'S election as Second Lieutenant was certified on May 25, 1846, according to election records. Blassingame was born in 1824 in South Carolina and was the son of William E. Blassingame and Elizabeth P. Townes from Greenville, South Carolina. It is difficult to determine from the records that he actually served in the position to which he was elected, but it appears he did not. In the absence of proof regarding his service, he is included since he appears in the record as a member of the Perry Volunteers. Blassingame was a farmer, enlisted at the age of twenty-two and lived in the Marion Beat in Perry County with his mother after the war. He married Lucy E. Wyatt on June 29, 1856, in Perry County, Alabama. John Blassingame moved to Franklin County, Alabama after his mother died in 1857. [1850 Census of Perry County, Alabama, p. 369; 1860 Census of Franklin County, Alabama, p. 789; Perry County Heritage, p. 52]

PEACHY BLEDSOE was born in 1824 in Alabama and worked as an overseer for John S. Ford. He lived in Marion Beat and enlisted at the age of twenty-two and was single at the time of his enlistment. Moses Bledsoe and Polly Turner were his parents and his siblings were William Miller, Phoebe, and Martha Ann. Bledsoe's grandparents were Miller Bledsoe and Jean Elizabeth Bolling. Peachy's father was a veteran of the Indian Wars enlisting in the Alabama Volunteers in 1836. Peachy was shot by his own sentinels at Tampico on January 23, 1847, and hospitalized for over two months due to his wound. After the Mexican War, he moved to Union Parish, Louisiana with his family and later to Texas. He served as a private in Company C of the 22nd Texas Cavalry Regiment during the War for Southern Independence. [1850 Census of Perry County, Alabama, p. 365B; 1860 Census of Perry County, Alabama, p. 697; Roster of Confederate Soldiers; Coleman Diary]

MARTIN BURCH was hospitalized at Vera Cruz from March 5 until on April 17, 1847. [W. G. Coleman Diary]

ALLEN L. BURT was discharged at Camp Alabama, Texas on the Rio Grande on August 19 and left camp for Alabama on August 22, 1846.

JOHN K. CALDWELL was twenty-seven when he enlisted in Company C. He was born in 1819 in South Carolina and was a tailor by occupation. He lived in the Radfordville Beat in 1850 and later moved to Mississippi. After the war, he married Susan W. Sansing on December 15, 1850, in Perry County. Susan Caldwell collected a widow's pension for John's Mexican War service beginning on April 20, 1887. [1850 Census of Perry County, Alabama, p. 344; Pension WC-621; Perry County, Alabama Marriage License # 2218]

JAMES CARDIN was born in South Carolina in 1813. He was thirty-three when he enlisted. [1860 Census of Perry County, Alabama, p. 696]

SHADRACK W. CARDIN was hospitalized at Point Isabel, Texas on December 10, 1846, and released on January 9, 1847. He caught up with his Company in Tampico on February 5, 1847. After the Mexican War, he moved to Mississippi. Harriett Cardin collected a widow's pension for Cardin's service in the Mexican War beginning on February 8, 1888. [Pension WC-4923; W. G. Coleman Diary]

YOUNG L. CARDIN was promoted to third sergeant of Company C on March 1, 1847, at Tampico, Mexico to replace Robert M. Holmes who was promoted to first sergeant.

WILLIAM COFFEY served as a private in Company K of the 44th Alabama Infantry Regiment during the War for Southern Independence. He died of disease on October 3, 1862, while serving in the Confederate Army. [44th Alabama Infantry Regiment Muster Roll; Roster of Confederate Soldiers; Charles E. Boyd, The Devil's Den, 1987]

WILLIAM GOFORTH COLEMAN was born in July 10, 1805, in Edgefield District, South Carolina and was of German descent. Politically, Coleman was a Calhoun Democrat and an outspoken advocate of states right's nullification of Federal laws. He was also a secessionist during the period leading up to the War for Southern Independence. Coleman first experienced war as a soldier under the command of Captain Jarnigham in the Creek War of 1837. He married Frances A. Johnson, the daughter of William S. Johnson of Virginia. Frances bore four children before her death in 1840. Coleman moved to Alabama in 1844 settling in the Plantersville area of eastern Perry County. Two years later, he organized the Perry Volunteers for service in Mexico at the age of forty. He married Mary Jane Heard in Alabama and had eight additional children with his second wife. Coleman was a dedicated sportsman who enjoyed horse racing and hunting. In late 1850, he moved his family to Claiborne Parish in Northwestern Louisiana. Here he had a brief fling with politics running and winning as the Democratic Party's candidate for the Louisiana Legislature in 1854. After serving his term, he eschewed an active role as a political candidate. In Claiborne Parish, he joined the Baptist Church at Lisbon in 1854 and was elected clerk of the church, a position he held for the next twenty-three years. In September 1877, Coleman attended a convention of Mexican War veterans which several members of his old command. In Louisiana, he retained the title of "Captain" all of his life, and the title appears in most records of his day in reference to Coleman. He died in October 19, 1888, at the age of eighty-three, having been a prominent and active citizen throughout his life and is buried in the cemetery at Rocky Springs Baptist Church at Lisbon, Louisiana. Coleman's son, Benjamin Ryan Coleman, and grandson, Thomas A. Coleman were prominent men in Claiborne Parish and the State of Louisiana, both holding many positions of public trust. Mary Jane Coleman collected a widow's pension for William's Mexican War service beginning on December 31, 1888. [1850 Census of Perry County, Alabama, p. 363; Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northwest Louisiana (The Southern Publishing Company, Chicago and Nashville, 1890); Mexican War Pension WC-5979; Perry County Alabama Marriage License # 1804]

HILLARY T COOK was born in 1822 in South Carolina and was a farmer. He was twenty-four when he enlisted and lived in the Dublin Beat. After the Mexican War, he married Jane C. Terry on March 10, 1850, and moved to Texas. Jane collected a widow's pension beginning on June 7, 1887, for Hillary's service in the Mexican War. [1850 Census of Perry County, Alabama, p. 357; Mexican War Pension WC4641; Perry County Marriage License # 2156]

MICHAEL A COOK JR.was born in 1820 in South Carolina and was a farmer living in the Dublin Beat. He was twenty-six when he enlisted in the Perry Volunteers. [1850 Census of Perry County, Alabama, p. 355B]

JOHN CROWLEY was born in Ireland in 1810 and dug and cleaned ditches for a living. Crowley lived in Dublin Beat and worked for William W. Morrow. He was single when he enlisted. Captain Coleman noted in his diary on January 29, 1847, "J. F. Bailey and John Crowley made bet of $10 aside and put the money in my hands-on Crowley's drinking spirits in one month." [1850 Census of Perry County, Alabama, p. 355B; W. G. Coleman Diary]

MILO CINCINNATI CURRY was the son of Thomas Curry and Rebecca Petty and the grandson of John Perry. Milo was born on October 18, 1818, in Putnam County, Georgia and died on April 28, 1903, in Claiborne Parish, Louisiana where he is buried in the Old Friendship Cemetery. He married Clara Henry on February 12, 1836, in Perry County. According to Milo's Mexican War pension papers dated June 6, 1887, he enlisted on June 11, 1846. In his later years, Milo received a pension for his service in Mexico amounting to eight dollars a month. He moved to Louisiana in the 1870s where he settled in the Flat Lick Community in Claiborne Parish. His brother was Berkley Perry Curry and his half brother was James H. Curry. Curry's sisters were Sally, Martha, and Margaret Caroline. Milo was twenty-eight years old when he enlisted and departed for Mexico. He was also married and the father of four children. He lived in the Oak Grove Beat and was a member of Ocmulgee Baptist Church near where he lived in southeastern Perry County. He joined Ocmulgee Church on December 28, 1839, and was excluded from the church on April 24, 1841, for "attending a horse race." He was readmitted to the church on November 27, 1847, six months after returning from Mexico. He subsequently served as the church treasurer and was a respected member of his congregation until his resigned in 1877, to move to Louisiana. Milo's slave, Hannah, was also a member this church, joining the same year as Milo and his wife. [Mrs. Grace T. Watson, Minden, Louisiana; Alabama Records, v 241, p. 24; 1850 and 1860 Censuses of Perry County, Alabama, 334B and 701 respectively; Ocmulgee Church Book; Mexican War Pension SC-10180; Perry County Marriage License no. 911; W. G. Coleman Diary; Perry County Marriage License # 911]

JAMES T. DACUS died at Tampico, Mexico on January 20, 1847, while his regiment was on garrison duty in that city. Captain Coleman noted in his Mexican War Diary on January 20, 1847, "James T. Dacus died in Hospital in Tampico of the fever after an illness of about ten days."

JOHN W. DACUS was born in 1822 in Alabama and was an overseer. He lived in the Woodville Beat and enlisted at the age of twenty-four. Dacus was single when he enlisted but married Mary Caroline Ramsey on August 26, 1851, in Perry County. Mary Caroline was born in 1834 and seventeen years old when she married Dacus. Her father was Reverend Lewis P. Ramsey from Georgia. [1850 Census of Perry County, Alabama, page 317; Perry County, Alabama Marriage License # 2273]

RUFUS W. DACUS' widow, Susan E. Dacus, collected a pension for his service in the Mexican War beginning on April 23, 1887. During the War for Southern Independence, Rufus enlisted as a private in the Home Guards of Lowndes County, Alabama under the command of Captain N. L. Break on April 21, 1863, at the age of forty-five years. He was born in 1808 and enlisted in the Perry Volunteers at the age of thirty-eight. [Mexican War Pension WC-633; ADAH Civil War Service Database]

LEROY E DAVIS was born in Alabama on December 27, 1825, and was a farmer. He lived in Heard's Beat in Perry County and enlisted at the age of twenty years. He was not married at the time of his enlistment. During the War for Southern Independence, Leroy enlisted in Company A of the 20th Alabama Infantry Regiment. He was promoted to Captain of his company during the war. Davis died on June 4, 1894, and is buried in Pisgah Cemetery in Perry County, Alabama. Leroy was paid a pension for his service in the Mexican War beginning on January 24, 1895, and his wife Martha J. Davis collected a widow's pension after his death. [1850 Census of Perry County, Alabama, Radfordville Beat, p. 352B; 1860 Census of Perry County, Alabama, page 656; Muster Roll of the 20th Alabama Infantry Regiment; Tracy's Brigade-1862-1865; Headstone Inscriptions; Mexican War Pension SC-13731 and WC-10247]

CHARLES R. DENNIS was born in 1817 and was a twenty-seven year old farmer when he enlisted in the Volunteers. He was hospitalized in Vera Cruz, Mexico on April 12, 1847, when the Perry Volunteers marched to the interior of Mexico to Jalapa, Mexico. On December 28, 1839, Charles joined Ocmulgee Baptist Church and was dismissed by letter on December 23, 1843. He moved to Union Parish, Louisiana after returning from Mexico. [Ocmulgee Church Book; Harry Dill and William Simpson, Some Slaveowners and their Slaves, Union Parish, Louisiana, 1839-1865; 1850 Census of Union Parish, Louisiana]

JOHN R. DENNIS was born in 1818 in Georgia. He was a twenty-six year old farmer and the father of three girls when he enlisted. Dennis was hospitalized in Vera Cruz, Mexico on April 17, 1847, when his regiment left that city for the interior of Mexico. John moved to Union Parish, Louisiana after completing his Mexican War service. His children included Nancy (1839), Amanda (1841) and Emily (1846). [1850 Census of Union Parish, Louisiana]

JOSEPH G. DENNIS was hospitalized at Point Isabel, Texas on December 30, 1846. He was promoted to fourth corporal on March 15, 1847, during the assault on Vera Cruz, Mexico. Dennis was a member of the Ocmulgee Baptist Church, which he joined on May 28, 1842. He moved to Mississippi after the Mexican War. He served as a private in Company K of the 11th Mississippi Infantry Regiment during the War for Southern Independence. Dennis survived the war and collected a pension for his Mexican War service beginning January 11, 1887. [Roster of Confederate Soldiers; Mexican War Pension SC-646; Ocmulgee Church Book]

WILLIAM N. EDWARDS was hospitalized at Tampico, Mexico and discharged from the hospital on April 4, 1847. He married Cinda Bledsoe in 1842. [Perry County Marriage License 1420]

M. A. EILAND was born in Georgia in 1820 and was a physician. He lived in Radfordville Beat, was single and was twenty-six when he enlisted in the Perry Volunteers. In 1850, he was living in the home of Spencer B. Rutledge. In 1860, he was living in Marion Beat and owned nine slaves. While in Mexico, he served as acting Assistant Surgeon in the hospital at Matamoros, Mexico after October 31, 1846. He rejoined the Perry Volunteers at Camargo on November 4, 1846, and stayed with the Company until they were mustered out. Captain Coleman noted in his pension statement prepared in 1882 that Regimental Surgeon Moore detailed Dr. Eiland as physician of Company C although such a position was not provided for in Army regulations. [1850 Census of Perry County, Alabama, p. 354B and 1860 Census of Perry County, Alabama, p. 722; William G. Coleman Pension Office Statement Dated November 8, 1882, in Claiborne Parish, Louisiana; W. G. Coleman Diary]

JOHN PICKNEY EVERETT was born on March 20, 1826, in Dallas County, Alabama but his parents moved to Perry County the year he was born. His father was Reverend George Everett whose early preaching activities were associated with Ocmulgee Baptist Church in Oak Grove Beat. John made a public profession of his faith at Ocmulgee Baptist Church when he was nineteen years old and was baptized into the church on September 25, 1845, by his father. He joined the Perry Volunteers in his twentieth year. His mother died four months after he returned from Mexico. The family moved to Union Parish, Louisiana in 1849 and settled near the present town of Oakland. In 1851, John married Sarah J. Buckley of Tennessee, and she bore him ten children before dying of yellow fever in Memphis in 1878. John's father died in June 1855 and the care of his twelve siblings devolved to him. As a result, he was deprived of advantages and his education was limited to seven months of school. However he possessed good abilities and by hard work and application of his intellect he overcame some of these disadvantages. In 1853, he was ordained a deacon by the Spring Hill Baptist Church and licensed to preach by that church in 1854 because of his "boldness in the faith." In September 1855, he was ordained as a minister and followed in his father's footsteps. In October 1856, John was installed as pastor of the Spring Hill Church and continued in that office until October 1876. During his tenure, he baptized over 500 converts into the fellowship. In December 1876, he moved his family to Shiloh, Louisiana to pastor a church there. John served the Louisiana Baptist State Convention as President and authored periodical literature for the church. He died in Union Parish on June 21, 1891, at the age of sixty-five years and is buried in the Liberty Church Cemetery in that parish. Everett was a founder of the Everett Institute, the first religious school in North Louisiana. His biographer in 1892 described John P. Everett as an "eminent divine of the Baptist Church, to which worthy calling he devoted the best energies of his life. His many noble characteristics endeared him to a wide circle of friends, and as his was a truly Christian character, his power for good was unlimited." Everett's children included Laura E., Sallie M., James D., Charles H., Dettie E., L. Etta and Edward. While in Mexico, he was promoted to fourth sergeant on April 19, 1847, to replace John W. Barron while his company was on the Mexican National Road in route to Jalapa, Mexico. Everett received a pension for his service in the Mexican War beginning July 24, 1891, and Sarah J. Everett received a widow's pension after John's death. [Timothy D. Hudson, Winterville, NC; Louisiana Tombstone Inscriptions, Vol. VIII and XXIV; Reverend W. E. Paxton, A History of Baptists in Louisiana From the Earliest Times (C. R. Barnes Publishing, St. Louis, 1888), pp. 615-616, 580-582; McCord, Baptists of Bibb County, Alabama, p. 135; Southwestern Baptist Newspaper, April 19, 1860; Glen Lee Greene, House Upon a Rock, About Southern Baptists in Louisiana (Parthenon Press, Nashville, Tennessee, 1973), pp. 182-183; Dill and Simpson, Some Slaveholders in Union Parish, Louisiana, pp. 21, 95-96; 1850, 1860 and 1880 Census of Union Parish, Louisiana; Ocmulgee Church Book, Perry County, Alabama (unpublished); Mexican War Pension SC-15829 and WC-7660; Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Louisiana, Volume1 (Goodspeed Publishing Company, Chicago, 1892) pp. 405-406; W. G. Coleman Diary]

ROBERT FARLEY was born on December 13, 1822, in Halifax County, Virginia. He joined the Perry Volunteers at the age of twenty-four years and was a farmer. He was hospitalized in Tampico, Mexico in 1847. In the War for Southern Independence, he enlisted as a private at Pollard, Alabama in October 1863 in Company C of the 7th Alabama Cavalry Regiment. He surrendered at Greensboro, North Carolina at the end of the war. Farley died on February 19, 1910, and is buried in the cemetery at Pine Flat Baptist Church in eastern Perry County. Lavina Sophronia Farley collected a widow's pension for Robert's Mexican War service beginning April 12, 1910. [1907 Confederate Soldier Census; Harris, Heritage, v I, p. 230; Muster Roll of the 7th Alabama Cavalry Regiment; Pine Flat Cemetery Headstone Inscription; Mexican War Pension SC-1630]

HEZEKIAH FILBERT fell victim to disease at Camargo, Mexico. Captain Coleman recorded on October 23 and November 22, 1846, "H. Filbert quite low" and on November 7, "Two dangerous cases of sickness in my Company, . . . and Hezekiah Filbert." Filbert was hospitalized on November 24, 1846, and died two days later on November 26, 1846. He was probably the son of Mary A. Filbert who lived in Radfordville Beat and the head of the only Filbert family in the county in 1850. There were no Filberts listed in the 1840 Census of Perry County. [1840 and 1850 Census of Perry County, Alabama, p. 344B; W. G. Coleman Diary]

HOMER M. FORD was born in 1826 in Alabama and enlisted at the age of twenty. He was the son of Absalom and Sarah Ford. Sarah was the daughter of William Thomas Ford and Absalom's cousin. After his service in Mexico, Homer returned home and managed the farm for his aging father and married Susannah E. Mims on October 19, 1848, in Perry County. With the commencement of the War for Southern Independence, Homer enlisted as a private in Company K of the 28th Alabama Infantry Regiment at Perryville, Alabama on March 29, 1862. In October 1862, he was promoted to the rank of Sergeant and later to Captain of Company K. He was paroled at Selma, Alabama on June 9, 1865. After the war, he moved to Texas. His wife received a widow's pension for Homer's Mexican War service beginning on October 10, 1887. [28th Alabama Infantry Muster Roll; 1850 Census of Perry County, Alabama, p. 345B; 1860 Census of Perry County, Alabama, p. 723; Mexican War Pension WC-2991; Perry County, Alabama Marriage License # 2003]

THOMAS M. FORD served in Company K of the 20th Alabama Infantry Regiment during the War for Southern Independence. [Roster of Confederate Soldiers]

WILLIAM MARSHALL FORD was a member of the board of directors for the Alabama Baptist Bible and Colporteur Society whose purpose was to distribute Bibles and religious literature. Ford was born on September 26, 1822, and died on March 22, 1861. He was the son of John Ford and Elizabeth Farrar. He married Sarah Stinson Miree on July 4, 1844, two years before joining the Perry Volunteers. William's wife received a widow's Mexican War pension beginning on March 11, 1887. He was granted a furlough to return to Alabama on August 22, 1846, while camped at Camp Alabama on the Rio Grande. He returned from furlough on October 8, 1846, bringing news from home and biscuits from Captain Coleman's wife and money from the Captain's father-in-law. He owned three slaves in 1860. In 1861, he enlisted in the Confederate Army in Company G of the 4th Alabama Infantry and was also a member of Company C of the 4th Regiment of Alabama Volunteer Militia. [Harris, Heritage of Perry County, Alabama, v I, p. 192; 4th Alabama Muster Roll; 1850 Free and 1860 Slave Census; Owen, History of Alabama, p. 108; 4th Militia Muster Roll; Mexican War Pension File WC- 1777; W. G. Coleman Diary; Perry County, Alabama Marriage License # 1592]

WILLIAM T FORD was born in Georgia in 1815 and was the son of John F. Ford. He was a farmer living in Radfordville Beat. William was thirty-one and unmarried when he served in the Mexican War. He was discharged from the army at Camp Alabama, Texas on August 19, 1846, and left for home three days later. During the War for Southern Independence, Ford enlisted in Company K of the 28th Alabama Infantry at Perryville on March 29, 1862, at the age of forty-six. He was appointed a third Lieutenant on March 29, 1862, and resigned five months later on September 7, 1862. In 1860, he owned four slaves. [28th Alabama Infantry Muster Roll; 1860 Slave Census; 1850 Census of Perry County, Alabama, p. 346B; 1860 Census of Perry County, Alabama, p. 631; Walker, Gallant 28th Alabama]

WILEY W. FOWLER was a farmer and lived in the Oakmulgee Beat of Perry County. He was born on October 24, 1842, in Spartanburg, South Carolina and was promoted to 4th Corporal of the Perry Volunteers on August 20, 1846, at Camp Alabama. After the Mexican War, he married Nancy S. Dross on October 30, 1848 in Bibb County, Alabama and served as the Third and First Sergeant in the Perry Guards, 4th Regiment of Alabama Militia, organized for 90 days on April 10, 1862, in Marion, Alabama. Nancy Dross was born on November 20, 1829 in Perry County. She died on May 31, 1880 and is buried in the LeGal Cemetery in Perry County, Alabama. Wiley died on January 31, 1904 in Maud, Bowie County, Texas and is buried in Center Ridge Cemetery in Maud, Texas. Wiley received a pension for his Mexican War service beginning on September 3, 1887. [Perry Guards Muster Roll; Mexican War Pension SC-11366; Bibb County, Alabama Marriages 1820-1862; Marlene Walker, Lorena, Texas]

JOHN ALFRED FULLER was born on July 29, 1824, in Perry County and died on August 21, 1900. He married Cynthia Powell Miree on February 2, 1849, in Perry County. John was the son of Jesse Franklin Fuller and Mary Elizabeth Jackson and the grandson of Green B. Jackson, Elijah Fuller and Sincy Browning. Fuller was a farmer who owned six slaves and was unmarried when he joined the Perry Volunteers at the age of twenty-two years. In 1878-79, John A. Fuller was the representative of Perry County to the Alabama Legislature. Most of his family moved to Union Parish, Louisiana in the years after the Mexican War. During the War for Southern Independence, he served as a corporal in the 7th Alabama Cavalry Regiment. Fuller received a Mexican War pension beginning on January 19, 1900, and his wife received a widow's pension after he died. He held the rank of Second Corporal during the Mexican War. [1850 Censuses of Perry County, Alabama, p. 359; Roster of Confederate Soldiers; Mexican War Pensions SC-2576 and WC-12728]

JOHN B. FULLER was mustered into the army on June 13, 1846, was elected regimental Sergeant Major on June 27, 1846, and brevetted a Third Lieutenant on August 1, 1846. Colonel John R. Coffey requested his commission on August 12, 1846. However, Captain Coleman recorded in his diary on August 3, "had an election for 3rd Lt. John B. Fuller was chosen." Fuller was the son of John Alfred Fuller and Susannah Burford, the grandson of Elijah Fuller, Sincy Browning, John Browning and Elizabeth Demorest. John married Sarah Elizabeth Roden. He was born in Greene County, Georgia and was a farmer who owned five slaves. He was thirty-five years old, married and the father of eight children when he enlisted. John's sons, Richard and George, served in Company K of the 8th Alabama Infantry Regiment during the War for Southern Independence. Richard was severely wounded and taken a prisoner at Gettysburg on July 3, 1863, but was released due to the severity of his wounds. He surrendered at Appomattox with the Army of Northern Virginia. George was wounded at Gaines Mill, Virginia so severely that he had to be detailed to the Arsenal at Selma, Alabama. Fuller moved to Texas and his wife received a pension for his Mexican War service beginning on April 14, 1887. [1850 Census of Perry County, Alabama, Perryville Beat, p. 347B; 1860 Census of Perry County, Alabama, p. 693; Robert S. Davis, Jr., Alabama Officers in the Mexican War 1846-1848, pp. 10-11; 1850 Slave Census of Perry County; Owen, History of Alabama, p. 986; Mexican War Pension WC-699; W. G. Coleman Diary]

SAMUEL P. BURFORD FULLER was the son of John Alfred Fuller and Susannah Burford and the grandson of Elijah Fuller and Sincy Browning. He married Delano Heard on February 4, 1845, in Perry County and owned two slaves. Samuel was born in Alabama and was eighteen years old when he enlisted in the Perry Volunteers. He was a member of Ocmulgee Baptist Church in southeast Perry County, which he joined on August 26, 1843. He was excluded from the church on April 26, 1845, for "fighting and drunkenness." Fuller was a farmer after the war. In Mexico, he was promoted to second corporal on April 19, 1847, at Cerro Gordo, Mexico. Captain Coleman's diary noted on that date, "elected . . . one corporal, 2nd S. B. Fuller." Samuel's son Jesse S. Fuller died of typhoid fever in a Richmond, Virginia hospital while serving in Company K of the 8th Alabama Infantry Regiment during the War for Southern Independence. Fuller moved to Mississippi and received a pension for his Mexican War service beginning on February 11, 1887. [1850 Census of Perry County, Alabama, p. 349; Bettye Prince Gilbert, Jefferson City, Missouri; Mexican War Pension SC-9397; W. G. Coleman Diary; ; Perry County, Alabama Marriage License; Perry County, Alabama Marriage License #1646]

ANDREW M. GOIN was a pump maker and lived in the Perryville Beat of Perry County. He was born in 1830 in Alabama and owned one slave. He was sixteen and single at the time of his enlistment. Andrew served as a private in Company I of the 26th Alabama Infantry Regiment during the War for Southern Independence. Goin married Arminta Barnett on November 29, 1848, in Perry County, Alabama. [1850 Census of Perry County, Alabama, p. 349; Roster of Confederate Soldiers; ; Perry County, Alabama Marriage License # 2020]

ROBERTTHOMAS GOREE was the son of James Lyles Goree, a Perry County planter. Robert was elected as first lieutenant of the Perry Volunteers on May 25, 1846, and discharged from the regiment on July 15, 1846, at Brazos Santiago, Texas. William Coleman noted succinctly in his diary on July 14, 1846, "R. T. Goree discharged from U.S.V" and again on August 22, 1846, "R. T. Goree left on the 18th July." A third entry on October 11, 1846, reads "R. T. Goree left our camp for his home in Alabama a second time having been discharged, Go, I say, and stay there." He was born in 1823 in Greene County, Alabama and died in 1858. Goree was a farmer living in Barron's Beat and had substantial assets with personal property valued at $10,000 inherited from his father. Robert married Caroline Nelson about 1848 in Greene County, Alabama after he returned from Mexico. He was the nephew of Langston James Goree and the brother of John Rabb Goree (1811-1852) and Dr. James Langston Goree (1819-1866) [1850 Census of Perry County, Alabama, p. 295; Paul R. Goree; Coleman Diary; International Genealogical Index; Harris, Perry County Heritage, p. 102, Perry County Will Book A, p. 115]

JOHN WILLIAM GRIFFIN was born in Georgia in 1822 and was the son of Owen Griffin of Wilkes County, Georgia and Elizabeth Heard and the grandson of John Heard, Owen Griffin and Elizabeth Stovall. He was a farmer living in Perryville Beat in 1850 and owned four slaves. He enlisted at the age of twenty-four and married Barbara Harbour on May 24, 1849 when he returned home from the war. Barbara was the daughter of William Harbour and Temperance Radford. Together John and Barbara were the parents of Sarah Frances, William Owen, Elijah Talmon, Nancy Caroline, John Richard and Ardella Hackworth Griffin. John contracted typhoid fever during the Mexican War but served his full enlistment, mustering out with his regiment in New Orleans on May 27, 1847. He was hospitalized at Point Isabel, Texas on December 11, 1846, and rejoined the Company on February 5, 1847, at Tampico. He was again left in the hospital at Vera Cruz on April 17, 1847, having been overly fatigued during a forced march from Vera Cruz to Alvarado, Mexico and back. During the War for Southern Independence, he was conscripted on May 17, 1862, and assigned to Company K of the 8th Alabama Infantry Regiment that was part of the Army of Northern Virginia. Following the Battle of Gaines' Mill, Virginia, he displayed exceptional bravery and his name was placed on the regimental ROLL OF HONOR. He served as a private until the end of the war and surrendered at Appomattox Court House on April 9, 1865. After the war, Griffin moved to Kemper County, Mississippi where he died on October 26, 1897, and is buried in the Hopewell Methodist Church Cemetery. Barbara Anne died in 1887. Griffin received a Mexican War pension for his service beginning on June 27, 1887. [1850 Census of Perry County, Alabama, p. 350B; Herbert, 8th Alabama, pp. 66 and 310; Heritage of Bibb; Heritage of Perry; 1860 Census of Perry County, Alabama, p. 699; Mexican War Pension SC-11598; Perry County, Alabama Marriage License # 2074]

GEORGE W. GRISSOM was born in 1824 in Tennessee. He was a farmer and enlisted at the age of twenty-two. Grissom was left at the hospital in Matamoros on August 27, 1846, when his company moved to Camargo, Mexico from Camp Alabama, Texas. He was detailed for twenty days by Lieutenant Colonel Earle to drive a wagon for the army. After returning from Mexico, he married Elizabeth V. Rogers on September 14, 1848, and moved back to Tennessee. Grissom received a pension for his Mexican War service beginning on June 17, 1897. [1850 Census of Perry County, Alabama, p. 343; Mexican War Pension SC-11272 and WC-11191]

JOSEPH B. HALE was discharged at Vera Cruz, Mexico on April 12, 1847. Captain Coleman noted in his diary on April 11, 1847, "got a discharge for Joe Hale" and on April 26, 1847, "bot cot from J. B. Hale" [W. G. Coleman Diary]

GEORGE H. HANSON remained behind in the hospital at Vera Cruz, Mexico on April 17, 1847, when his regiment marched into the interior of Mexico to the town of Jalapa. Hanson was a Georgia born farmer living in the Perryville Beat when he enlisted. He was born about 1810 and was about thirty-six and married with three children at the time that he enlisted. He married Susannah A. Radford on July 30, 1829, in Perry County. Susan was the sister of John W. Radford who served in the Perry Volunteers. George died about 1859. According to his descendants, George died while sitting on the porch of his Perry County home, assumedly of a heart attack. Susan Radford was the daughter of William Radford and Nancy James. She was born March 29, 1812, in Georgia and was the mother of seven children by George H. Hanson, three of whom served in the War for Southern Independence. The Hanson children separated after their fathers death: one remained in Perry County; two moved to White County, Arkansas, with one later moving to Texas. Hanson owned at least four slaves at the time of his death. [1850 Census of Perry County, Alabama, p. 351B; Louise Birchfield; Perry County, Alabama Marriage License # 392]

ANDREW C. HAYWOOD HARVILL was the son of Thomas Harvill, a wealthy Perry County planter and slave owner. Andrew married Emily T. Mastin on November 2, 1847, in Dallas County, Alabama. Andrew was born in 1826 in Perry County and enlisted at the age of twenty years. In Mexico, he was hospitalized at Point Isabel, Texas on November 30, 1846, and rejoined his company at Jalapa, Mexico on April 29, 1847. Harvill was a member of Ocmulgee Baptist Church in southeastern Perry County, joining on December 4, 1852, and was excluded on April 24, 1853, for "excessive and frequent drunkenness." Harvill appears to have been a wastrel squandering his inheritance. [1850 Census of Perry County, Alabama, p. 333B; Ocmulgee Church Book (unpublished); 1860 Census of Perry County, Alabama, p. 681; Harvill Estate Papers]

JESSE W. HEARD died on July 22, 1846, of pleurisy while Company C was camped at the mouth of the Rio Grande in Texas. [W. G. Coleman Diary]

JOHN G. HEARD was the son of Thomas A. Heard and the brother of Joseph and Thomas R. Heard who were also members of the Perry Volunteers. He was the brother-in-law of Captain William G. Coleman and is mentioned frequently in the Captain's diary of his war experiences. John was born in Georgia in 1823 and farmed his father's property along with his brothers. He was twenty-three when he enlisted and lived in the Plantersville Beat in Perry County. In Mexico, he was hospitalized at Point Isabel, Texas on November 30, 1846, and did not rejoin his regiment until March 1, 1847. He married Susan Martin on June 2, 1851. She was born in 1832 and was the daughter of Robert Martin, a Baptist preacher from North Carolina. During the War for Southern Independence, Heard joined Company H of the 17th Louisiana Infantry in October 1861 and was elected Lieutenant of his company. In September 1877, he attended a convention of Mexican War veterans with others from his regiment. [1850 Census of Perry County, Alabama, p. 363; Madge Pettit, Pioneers and Residents of West Central Alabama, (Heritage Books, Inc., Bowie, Maryland, 1988), p. 165; W. G. Coleman Diary; Perry County, Alabama Marriage License # 2229]

JOSEPH B. HEARD was the son of Thomas A. Heard and the brother of John G. and Thomas R. Heard. Joseph was born in Alabama in 1824 and lived with his father in Plantersville Beat of Perry County. He was hospitalized at Point Isabel, Texas from November 30, 1846, until March 1, 1847. During his service in the Mexican War, Joseph was frequently ill as reported in wartime diary of his brother-in-law William Coleman. Joseph moved to Louisiana after returning from Mexico. Heard received a pension for his service in Mexico beginning March 22, 1887. [1850 Census of Perry County, Alabama, p. 363; Mexican War Pension SC-13341; W. G. Coleman Diary]

THOMAS RICHARD HEARD was born in 1827 in Georgia and was the son of Thomas A. Heard, a wealthy farmer who owned over fifty slaves, and the brother of John G. and Joseph Heard. During the Mexican War, he was the subject of numerous diary entries by Captain Coleman, his brother-in-law. All of the diary notations mentioned Heard's health except for an unexplained entry made on April 7, 1847, at Vera Cruz that read, "Richard Heard got badly hurt by a trifling Regular Soldier." During the War for Southern Independence, Heard served as a second lieutenant beginning on May 8, 1861, and Captain beginning on June 30, 1862, in Company A of the 8th Alabama Infantry Regiment. He was wounded at the Battle of Gaines' Mill, Virginia on June 27, 1862, and again at the Battle of the Wilderness on May 6, 1864. He retired from the Confederate Army on December 14, 1864, due to his Wilderness wounds. Heard's widow, Frances C. Heard, received a widow's pension for his service in the Mexican War beginning on March 21, 1887. [1850 Census of Perry County, Alabama, p. 363; Hilary Herbert, History of the 8th Alabama, Alabama Historical Quarterly, 1977, Vol. XXXIX, p. 662; Roster of Confederate Soldiers; Mexican War Pension WC-1447; W. G. Coleman Diary]

WILLIAM C. HEARD was the son of Charles Heard. William was born in Alabama in 1828. He was eighteen at the time of his enlistment and living with his father in Marion Beat. Captain Coleman noted in his diary on December 18, 1846, "Bot a hat and shoes Mexican made-gave them to W. C. Heard." Heard married Amarintha Crawford on December 15, 1850. [1850 Census of Perry County, Alabama, p. 367B; W. G. Coleman Diary; Marriage License # 2217]

ARCHIBALD A. HENRY died at Camp Alabama, Texas on the Rio Grande on August 18, 1846, at six o'clock in the afternoon. Captain Coleman noted in his diary on August 19 at Camp Alabama "buried A. Henry." [W. G. Coleman Diary]

ROBERT M. HOLMES was the son of John Holmes and lived in the Perryville Beat in Perry County. He was a mechanic, was born in Alabama in 1823 and was twenty-three years old when he enlisted for service in Mexico. Holmes was promoted to first sergeant from third sergeant at Tampico, Mexico on March 1, 1847. Captain Coleman noted in his diary on January 23, 1847, that Robert Holmes' brother John Holmes visited the Perry Volunteers at Tampico and on January 29 that Holmes had nursed him through an illness and was a good friend. Coleman recorded Holmes' promotion on March 1, stating, "appointed R. M. Holmes 1st Sergt." [1850 Censuses of Perry County, Alabama, Perryville Beat, p. 348B; W. G. Coleman Diary]

IRA J. HORTON received a pension for his service in the Mexican War beginning on February 6, 1888. [Pension SC-14004]

JOEL H. HUNLEY was left in the hospital at Vera Cruz, Mexico on April 17, 1847, when the Perry Volunteers marched to the interior of Mexico. Hunley was a Radfordville Beat farmer who was born in Virginia in 1800. He was the old man of the company being forty-six when he enlisted. Hunley moved to Texas after returning from Mexico. Joel received a Mexican War pension beginning on September 14, 1894, and his wife, Martha C. Hunley, received a widow's pension after he died. [1850 Census of Perry County, Alabama, p. 346; Mexican War Pensions SC-6920 and WC-10721]

JAMES H. IRBY died at Camp Alabama, Texas on July 29, 1846, which was twenty-five days after arriving in Texas. Captain Coleman noted the event in his diary on July 29, 1846, "James H. Irby died at 3 o'clock a. m." and "buried J. Irby, Camp Alabama." Irby married Mary Hill in Greene County, Alabama on June 21, 1839, and was the son of Moses Irby. [Greene County, Alabama Marriages 1823-1860; W. G. Coleman Diary]

CHARLES GREEN JACKSON was born on October 29, 1826, in Perry County, Alabama. He was the oldest son of Abraham Wyche Jackson and Jane F. Crow, the grandson of Reverend Charles Crow, Sarah Harlan, Green B. Jackson and Clara Yeates and the great grandson of John Jackson and Elizabeth Lloyd of South Carolina. Charles' grandfather Green B. Jackson was born on May 6, 1767 in Lexington District, South Carolina but moved to Greene County, Georgia shortly after his father, John Jackson, died in 1794. Green left Georgia for Alabama in 1819 and died in Perry County on November 20, 1849. During his life, Green B. Jackson was quite prosperous. Charles' father Abraham was a prosperous planter, slave owner, and an ordained Baptist Minister. Charles Green was educated in the common schools of Perry County and lived his entire life in the county before joining the Perry Volunteers and sailing for Mexico. Three months after returning from Mexico, he left Perry County and moved to DeSoto Parish, Louisiana with his family. Charles married in Louisiana and fathered two children by his first wife, Mary Ann Cowley, the daughter of James Cowley and Susan Russell. He married twice more to Laura Virginia Oliver and Anne E. Connevey. During the War for Southern Independence, he fought with Company B of the 24th Louisiana Infantry Regiment until that regiment was merged with other regiments to form the Consolidated Crescent Regiment. At the Battle of Mansfield, Louisiana, he was among the Confederates commanded by General Richard Taylor, the son of Zachary Taylor, Charles' commander in Texas and Northern Mexico. Charles had the distinction of serving under both father and son. He was described as 5' 9 " tall, light complexion, gray eyes, and black hair at the age of twenty. Jackson died on September 13, 1911, at Grand Cane in DeSoto Parish, Louisiana. He received a pension for his service in Mexico. It amounted to $8.00 a month in 1888 and increased to $20.00 a month by the time of his death. Copies of some of his pension records are attached as Appendices including a note from his former commander, William G. Coleman. [Mexican War Pensions SC-17323 and WC-15841]

JESSE F JACOBS was a physician. He was discharged from the army on August 19, 1846, at Camp Alabama, Texas and died of consumption in Perry County, Alabama on January 24, 1852, at the home of his father-in-law Seth B. Ford at the age of thirty-three years. Jacobs was born on February 14, 1818, in Greenville District, South Carolina and migrated to Alabama in 1841 where he set up a medical practice in Perryville. He married Nancy E. Ford on November 12, 1845, and volunteered for service in the Mexican War in May 1846. Jacobs is buried in the Ford family cemetery in Perry County. Captain Coleman noted in his diary on August 19, 1846, that "Doctor Jacobs . . . called for a discharge to go home" and on August 22 that "the following men belonging to the Indt. Rangers left for home with their discharges: . . . J. F. Jacobs . . ." [South Western Baptist, March 24, 1852; 1850 Censuses of Perry County, Alabama, Heard's Beat, p. 354; Ford Cemetery Headstone Inscriptions; W. G. Coleman Diary; Perry County, Alabama Marriage License # 1734]

DAVID A. JONES received a pension for his service in Mexico beginning on February 10, 1906. His wife Mary A. Jones received a widow's pension after David's death. Captain Coleman noted in his diary on March 16, 1847, that "got sword belt from D. A. Jones." [Pensions SC-6089 and WC-14462]

JAMES JONES was born in Georgia in 1824 and was a farmer living in the Perryville Beat of Perry County. He was twenty-two years old when he enlisted. Jones was hospitalized at Point Isabel, Texas on December 10, 1846. After the war, Jones married Nancy Crawley on December 19, 1847, and moved to Louisiana. He received a pension for his service in Mexico beginning on May 17, 1895 and his wife Nancy received a widow's pension. Captain Coleman noted in his diary on December 10, 1846, that he "sent James Jones . . . to P. Isabel with their guns and accoutrements" and on February 5, 1847, "some of my Company joined us which was left at Point Isabel . . . James Jones . . . " [1850 Census of Perry County, Alabama, p. 351; Pensions SC-8760 and WC-9794; W. G. Coleman Diary; Perry County, Alabama Marriage License # 1947]

WILLIAM H. JONES was born in 1826 in Alabama and enlisted at the age of twenty. Jones lived in the Pinetucky Beat of Perry County and was discharged from the army at Tampico, Mexico on February 26, 1847. He married Elizabeth W. Cross on September 21, 1847. Jones moved to Louisiana after the war and received a pension for his Mexican War service beginning on August 21, 1908. After his death, his wife, Elizabeth received a widow's pension. An entry in Coleman's diary dated February 26, 1847, reads, "discharged . . . W. H. Jones." [1850 Census of Perry County, Alabama, p. 289; Mexican War Pensions SC-52246 and WC-15129; W. G. Coleman Diary; Perry County, Alabama Marriage License # 1999]

WILLIAM A. KELLY was born in Georgia in 1827 and was a mechanic. He lived in Perryville Beat and was nineteen when he enlisted. Kelly was hospitalized at Matamoros, Mexico on August 24, 1846. A Coleman diary entry dated August 27, 1846, reads "Kelley to go to the hospital." William married Martha Perry on November 29, 1848. [1850 Census of Perry County, Alabama, p. 349B; W. G. Coleman Diary; Perry County, Alabama Marriage License # 2022]

JOHN A. LEACH was born in 1823 in Georgia and was a farmer that owned one slave. He was twenty-four when he enlisted and lived in the Pinetucky Beat. Leach remained in the hospital at Vera Cruz, Mexico on April 17, 1847, when his regiment marched into the interior of Mexico. After returning from Mexico, Leach married Sarah Barnett on November 28, 1848, and moved to Union Parish, Louisiana, later moving to Texas where he received a pension for his Mexican War service beginning on June, 20, 1896. His wife Sarah received a widow's pension after John died. [1850 Census of Perry County, Alabama, p. 292; Mexican War Pensions SC-15840 and WC-10393; Dill, Some Slaves; 1860 Census of Union Parish, Louisiana; ; Perry County, Alabama Marriage License # 2021]

WILLIAM J. LILES was hospitalized at Point Isabel, Texas on December 12, 1846. He was born in 1823 in Alabama and was a mechanic. He lived in Perryville, was single and was twenty-three when he enlisted. Captain Coleman noted in his diary on December 12, 1846, "W. Liles went to Point Isabel sick" and on February 5, 1847, at Tampico, Mexico "some of the sick of my Company joined us which was left at Point Isabel . . . Wm. Liles . . ." [1850 Census of Perry County, Alabama, p. 349B; W. G. Coleman Diary]

JOHN B. MARTIN was the son of Buckley and Susan Martin who lived in the Perryville Beat. John enlisted at the age of eighteen and was born in Georgia in 1828. After the war, he returned to his father's home and became a farmer. He was hospitalized at Vera Cruz, Mexico on April 17, 1847, when his regiment left for Jalapa, Mexico. [1850 Census of Perry County, Alabama, p. 349; W. G. Coleman Diary]

WILLIAM C. MAYES was born about 1838 in Marion, Alabama and was the son of Thomas Mayes and Jane G. Burleson. William married Martha Jane Crow, the daughter of Silas Harlan Crow and Sarah A. Martin, on December 7, 1847, six months after returning from Mexico. Mayes was a member of Ocmulgee Baptist Church in Perry County. Mayes' wife received a widow's pension for his service in the Mexican War. He moved to DeSoto Parish, Louisiana and served as a private in Company F of the 19th Louisiana Volunteer Infantry during the War for Southern Independence. Mayes's wife was a first cousin of Charles G. Jackson. [Mayes Family Newsletter; Mexican War Pension WC-3317; International Genealogical Index; ; Perry County, Alabama Marriage License # 1938]

THOMAS EDWARD McCRAW, JR. was the son of Thomas Edward McCraw, Sr. and Sarah Mitchell. Thomas, Jr. was born on December 13, 1826, in Alabama and was nineteen when he enlisted. He was the grandson of Edward McCraw and Mary Owen. Thomas Edward McCraw, Sr. was born on December 4, 1787 in Virginia and died on February 1, 1854 in Perry County. Thomas' was one of eleven children; his siblings included Lemuel J., Ruhamy, Nathaniel Mitchell, Chloe Elizabeth, Nancy Carolina, Mary Elizabeth, Sarah Ann, Selinda Catharine, William Smith and James W. McCraw. [It's McCraw not McGraw, compiled by Carol Joyce McCune McCraw]

ALBERT G. MELTON was left behind in the hospital at Vera Cruz on April 17, 1847, when his regiment marched into the interior of Mexico. He died on July 3, 1847, one month after he returned from Mexico. He was the son of Nancy Haynes and William Allen Melton, a native of Edgefield District, South Carolina who died in Perry County on May 16, 1864.

LEWIS A. MIREE was discharged from the army on August 19, 1846, at Camp Alabama, Texas. Captain Coleman noted in his diary that Miree left Mexico on August 22 and on September 13, 1846, Coleman recorded that he "got a letter from Lt. Ford yesterday written from New Orleans stating the death of Lewis A. Miree." It appears that Miree died on the way to the United States or in New Orleans before reaching home. [W. G. Coleman Diary]

JAMES ALFRED MOORE was the son of James B. Moore. James A. was born on April 4, 1824 in Alabama and died on January 4, 1854 at the age of twenty-nine years and nine months. He became a farmer like his father after the war and lived in Barron's Beat. He was hospitalized at Point Isabel, Texas on December 10, 1846. Moore received a pension for his Mexican War service beginning on April 1, 1887. Captain Coleman noted in his diary on December 10, 1846, "sent . . . James Moore to P. Isabel with . . . guns and accoutrements" and on February 5, 1847, "some of the sick of my Company joined us which was left at Point Isabel . . .James Moore . . ." Moore is buried in the Fairview Presbyterian Church Cemetery in Barron's Beat. [1850 Census of Perry County, Alabama, Barron's Beat, p. 294; Alabama Records, v 241, p. 19; Mexican War Pension SC-1496; W. G. Coleman Diary; Fairview Presbyterian Church Cemetery Headstone Inscriptions]

JOSEPH T MOUNT was born in 1819 in New York and was twenty-seven when he enlisted. He married Elizabeth Ann Davis on January 17, 1850, and was a tailor by trade. During the War for Southern Independence, Mount served as a private in the Perry Guards in the 4th Regiment of Alabama Militia, organized on April 10, 1862, in Marion. In 1864, he served as a private in Company H of the 3rd Infantry Regiment of the Alabama Reserves. Joseph's wife Elizabeth received a widow's pension for Mount's Mexican War service beginning on March 11, 1887. [Perry Guards, 3rd Alabama and Perry Volunteers Muster Rolls; 1860 Census of Perry County, Alabama, p. 663; Pension WC-3414; ; Perry County, Alabama Marriage License # 2139]

ALFRED MUCKLE was born in 1824 in South Carolina. He was the son of William Muckle and enlisted at the age of twenty-two. William Muckle was a native of England, owned over seventy slaves and was quite wealthy. Alfred moved to Texas after the war and received a pension for his service in Mexico beginning February 26, 1887. Muckle married L. J. Tubb in Perry County on March 30, 1869. [1850 Census of Perry County, Alabama, p 343; 1860 Census of Perry County, Alabama, p. 632; Pension SC-2915; International Genealogical Index]

DUKE NALL was born in 1827 in Alabama and was a farmer. Duke was nineteen when he enlisted in the Perry Volunteers. After his service in Mexico, he returned to his mother's home, operated her farm and married Sarah A. Bennett. In the War for Southern Independence, he was the Captain of Company K of the 8th Alabama Infantry, the Southern Guards, from May 16, 1861, until November 2, 1864. On November 2, 1864, he was promoted to Major of the 8th Alabama Infantry Regiment when Colonel Young Lea Royston was forced to retire from the army due to battle wounds. This left an open officer position in the regiment and Nall filled the Major's vacancy. An artillery shell wounded him as the 8th Alabama was moving into position at the Battle of Sharpsburg, Maryland on September 17, 1862, and seriously wounded at the Battle of the Wilderness in Virginia on May 6, 1864. At the Wilderness fight, Nall briefly commanded the 8th Alabama but was shot through the lungs. Henry Clinton Lea, Jr., replaced Nall as commander. Nall died on November 4, 1864, of complications caused by his Wilderness lung wound. He was assumed to have recovered and returned to the regiment. However in the winter of 1863-64, he was attacked by pneumonia and inflammation set up in his old wound resulting in his death. During his Confederate service, Nall was present at the Siege of Yorktown, and the battles of Williamsburg, Gaines' Mill, Frazier's Farm, Second Manassas, Fredericksburg, Salem Church and Bristow Station. At the Battle of Williamsburg, Nall was in charge of two companies occupying Fort Magruder. He was the son of Margaret Nall and the brother of Robert Nall. In 1860, he owned twelve slaves. [Microfilm number 1462787 Family History Center LDS Church; Herbert, 8th Alabama, pp. 56, 79, 110, 139, 176, 178, 202 and 306; 1860 Slave Census of Perry County, Alabama; 1850 Free Censuses of Perry County, Alabama, Perryville Beat, p. 347B]

SIMON H. NICHOLS was discharged from the army at Camp Alabama, Texas on August 24, 1846.

JOHN OWEN was born in 1823 in Georgia and worked as a laborer. He enlisted in the Perry Volunteers at the age of twenty-three and lived in Severe Beat. His Mexican War service was short, and he was discharged at Camp Alabama, Texas on August 19, 1846. Once home, he married Lucinda Weger on December 22, 1846. John died on December 7, 1863, at Kingston, Georgia during the War for Southern Independence. He joined Company K of the 28th Alabama Infantry Regiment on March 29, 1862, at Perryville, Alabama as a private. [28th Alabama Infantry Muster Roll; 1850 Free Census of Perry County, Alabama; Walker, Gallant 28th Alabama, p. 329; ; Perry County, Alabama Marriage License # 1882]

LEWIS T. PALMER died at Camargo, Mexico on September 8, 1846. Captain Coleman noted on September 1, "Lewis T. Palmer died at ½ past 1 o'clock p.m." and "sold L. T. Palmer things" on September 16, 1846. [W. G. Coleman Diary]

JAMES H. PITTS was born in 1820 in South Carolina. He was a farmer who owned seventeen slaves and lived in the Perryville Beat. He was twenty-six and married with one child when he enlisted. Pitts became the Company's first lieutenant after Robert T. Goree was discharged on July 15, 1846. He moved to Texas after the war and his wife Elizabeth received a widow's pension for his service in Mexico. James' son, John A. Pitts, was born on June 21, 1848, and died on May 31, 1851, at the age of two years and eleven months. [1850 Censuses of Perry County, Alabama, Perryville Beat, p. 348B; Pension WC-3518; W. G. Coleman Diary]

JOHN W. RADFORD was born on April 18, 1825, in Alabama and worked as an overseer. He enlisted at the age of twenty-one and lived in the Radfordville Beat. He was assigned as a nurse in the hospital at Matamoros, Mexico from August 10 until November 4, 1846. Radford was a patient in the hospital at Point Isabel, Texas on December 11, 1846, where he remained until March 1, 1847. He was the son of William Radford and a brother-in-law of George H. Hanson. [Louise Birchfield; W. G. Coleman Diary]

JOHN C. ROGERS was born in 1818 in Tennessee. He was a farmer and lived in the Pinetucky Beat of Perry County. He served as the drummer of Company C during the Mexican War. In 1836, Rogers served in a militia company known as the Selma Rangers during the Creek Indian War, leaving Selma on May 25, 1836, and served for eight weeks. He married Mary Ann Jones on October 16, 1845. [1850 Censuses of Perry County, Alabama, Pinetucky Beat, p. 287; Selma Free Press, May 28, 1836; Walker, Gallant 28th Alabama, p. 330; ; Perry County, Alabama Marriage License # 1703]

JOHN WILLIAM ROGERS was born in 1820 in Perry County, Alabama and was twenty-six years old when he enlisted in the Perry Volunteers. John was the son of Reuben John Rogers and Elizabeth Watters and married Nancy Richardson on January 20, 1848. Rogers' Mexican War record contains a note that he was sick at Point Isabel, Texas on December 2, 1846. Another note sets the date of his hospitalization on December 11. He remained behind as a nurse in the hospital at Point Isabel, Texas, but he rejoined the Perry Volunteers on April 23, 1847, at Jalapa, Mexico. Rogers was killed at the Battle of Chickamauga, Georgia on September 20, 1863, while serving as 3rd Sergeant in Company K of the 28th Alabama Infantry during the War for Southern Independence. He enlisted at Perryville on March 29, 1862, at the age of forty-one. After his death, his wife Nancy H. Rogers filed a claim for $165.09 owed to John. In 1860, he owned one slave. [28th Alabama Infantry Muster Roll; 1850 Free Census of Perry County, Alabama, Radfordville Beat, p. 346B; 1860 Slave Census of Perry County, Alabama; LDS Pedigree Resource File; Perry County, Alabama Marriage License # 1959]

GEORGE W. SMEDLEY was discharged from the army at Camp Alabama, Texas on August 29, 1846. After returning to Alabama, he moved to Lauderdale County, Alabama. [1850 Free Census of Lauderdale County, Alabama, p.36; W. G. Coleman Diary]

DANIEL W. SNEED was born in 1819 in Bibb County, Alabama and was the son of Daniel Sneed and Margaret Graham. Sneed was twenty-eight years old when he joined the Perry Volunteers. He was discharged from the army at Matamoros, Mexico, on October 13, 1846. Captain William Coleman noted in his diary under the date December 7, 1846, "Mr. Snead took leave of us all for Alabama." [International Genealogical Index, Coleman Diary]

JAMES WILSON STANLEY was born on November 27, 1819, in Bibb County, Alabama. He married Elizabeth G. Griffin in November 1848 in Perry County. Elizabeth G. Griffin was the daughter of Bird O. Griffin and Alsira Autrey. Elizabeth Griffin was born September 18, 1832, and died on September 5, 1907. Stanley was twenty-eight years old and single when he joined the Perry Volunteers. He received a pension for his service during the Mexican War beginning on April 4, 1887. He died March 12, 1919, in Whitehouse, Smith County, Texas and is buried in the Whitehouse Cemetery. [Pension SC-4747; Perry County, Alabama Marriage License # 2017]

WILLIAM G. STINSON was left behind in the hospital at Vera Cruz, Mexico on April 17, 1847, when his regiment marched to the interior of Mexico. Beginning on May 11, 1919, his wife received a widow's pension for William's service in Mexico. [Pension WC-15274]

THOMAS W. SWANSON was hospitalized at Point Isabel, Texas on December 2, 1846.

GEORGE CLEMENT TILLMAN was the son of Mary Tillman and lived in the Oak Grove Beat. He was born in 1826 in South Carolina and was twenty when he enlisted. His mother owned twelve slaves and was a farmer. After returning from the Mexican War, he married Sarah E. Fincher on November 29, 1849, in Perry County, Alabama. George Clement moved to Texas after the war and received a pension for his service in the Mexican War and his wife Sarah E. received a widow's pension after his death. [1850 Censuses of Perry County, Alabama, p. 334; Pensions SC-11323 and WC-14212; Perry County, Alabama Marriage License # 2121]

JOHN MILLER TILLMAN was discharged from the army at Camp Alabama, Texas on August 20, 1846. He married Mary Elizabeth Plummer in May 1847 after returning from Mexico. Tillman's wife received a widow's pension for his service in Mexico beginning February 19, 1887. Their son John Plummer Tillman was born on January 25, 1849, at Perryville, Alabama, and he married Sarah Hurt in 1876. Three other children of John Tillman lived tragically short lives: Frederick Jacob Tillman was born on October 1, 1856, but lived only one year and a day; George Clement Tillman was born February 25, 1864, and died on November 8, 1868. Robert Henry Tillman was born December 20, 1866, and died on October 20, 1868. [Pension WC-822; International Genealogical Index; Headstone Inscriptions; Perry County, Alabama Marriage License # 2016]

JOHN MOORE TILLMAN married Martha F. Mitchell on May 7, 1845, in Perry County, Alabama and died at Camp Alabama, Texas on July 29, 1846, at nine o'clock in the morning. He was buried on July 30 "on the Rio Grande River" according to an entry in the wartime diary of Captain William G. Coleman, Tillman's uncle. [W. G. Coleman Diary]

STEPHEN D. TILLMAN moved to Texas after returning from Mexico. His wife Mary P. Tillman received a widow's pension for his service in Mexico beginning February 10, 1887. [Pension WC-4475]

LAFAYETTE VANCE was left in the hospital at Vera Cruz on April 17, 1847, when his regiment moved into the interior of Mexico to the town of Jalapa. He was shot by his own sentinels on January 23, 1847, at Tampico, Mexico but was not seriously injured. Captain Coleman noted in his diary on January 23, 1847, "at night Peachy Bledsoe and Lafayette Vance both got shot by their own sentinel, truly sorry to learn the fact." [W. G. Coleman Diary]

BENJAMIN F. WALKER was discharged from the army at Camp Alabama, Texas on August 19, 1846. He moved to Mississippi after returning from Mexico. His widow received a pension for Benjamin's service in Mexico beginning June 8, 1901. [Pension WC-13074; Coleman Diary]

WILLIAM WALLACE was born in North Carolina in 1829, joined the Perry Volunteers at the age of eighteen and lived in Radfordville Beat. During the War for Southern Independence, Wallace was conscripted into Company K of the 8th Alabama Infantry Regiment on February 1, 1863, in Perry County. He was wounded and captured at the Battle of Gettysburg on July 3, 1863, and sent to the Federal hospital on David's Island in New York City harbor. His wounds led to a parole by the enemy and he was transferred to the Confederacy where he died in Howard's Grove Hospital in Richmond, Virginia on July 4, 1864. [Herbert, 8th Alabama, AHQ, p. 316; 1860 Census of Perry County, Alabama, p. 642]

ALFRED W. WEST was born in 1823 in North Carolina and was a farmer. He lived in Radfordville Beat, owned one slave and was twenty-three when he enlisted. West married Asa Ann Wilson on December 11, 1851, in Perry County, Alabama. [1850 Free and Slave Censuses of Perry County, Alabama; Perry County, Alabama Marriage Records]

SEP was not officially a member of the Perry Volunteers but served Company C for the year they were in Texas and Mexico. Sep made all of the marches and suffered the hardships and privations of the Company with no pay for his efforts. He was the black body servant of Captain William G. Coleman and a slave. His service to the captain took him into Mexico, a free country, and he could have fled as some other slaves did that accompanied Southern regiments to the war. Yet he stood fast by his master, nursed him in sickness, administered to his wants and extended his ministrations to others in the Company C. Sep was the trusted custodian of the men of Company C who left their little treasures in his care. He never betrayed a trust, taking great care with their possessions. He returned to Alabama with Captain Coleman after the war and moved to Louisiana with his master where he died of old age in Claiborne Parish.