I have a huge number [almost two dozen] of soldiers with the Cox name who either served in units formed in/near Pickens County, or who lived in Pickens County at one time. Are these from your Cox family? If you have further information on any of these men, I'd appreciate receiving that info.

Dupree’s Independent Cavalry Company/Company D [attached to the 12th Miss. and Ala. Cav./16th Conf. Cav.]

COX, J.R. (Enlisted 9/29/1863 at Pickensville. Resident of Bigby Valley, Miss.)

COX, John [James] Wiley (Born 8/30/1846 at Louisville in Winston Co., Miss. Enlisted as a Private Sept. 1863 at Louisville. Living at Carrollton, Ala. after the war. Died 3/8/1922. Buried at Carrollton Cemetery.)

COX, T.E. (Enlisted 9/1/1864 at Pickensville. Resident of Pickensville.)

2nd Alabama Battalion Light Artillery, Company F
“Lumsden's Artillery Battery”

COX, Henry P. (Enlisted in New Orleans, La.) [Possibly the Henry P. Cox, who was a Pvt. In Co. A. 1st (Strawbridge's) La. Infantry, who enlisted on 3/18/1861 at Baton Rouge, La. And was discharged 12/17/1861.]

7th Alabama Cavalry Regiment, Company I

COX, Ramsey (Dead by 2/21/1902.)

COX, Thomas

11th Alabama Volunteer Infantry Regiment, Company H

COX, Alfred Barksdale (Born 7/18/1838. Enlisted at Carrollton on 6/8/1861. Wounded twice. First at Vicksburg. Following a stay at Way Hospital in Meridian after his second wound, he was at home on medical furlough at the time of surrender. Paroled at Columbus, Miss. Living in Memphis in Pickens Co. after the war. Died June 1910. Buried in the Lower Pickensville Cemetery.)

24th Alabama Infantry Regiment, Company C

COX, W.A.

COX, W.W.

38th Tennessee Infantry Regiment, Company G (formed in Tuscaloosa County, near the Pickens County line)

COX, Robert S. (Born in Raleigh, N.C. on 10/19/1838. Lost a leg at Battle of Atlanta 4/22/1864, transferred. Died 6/14/1901, Northport, Ala. Buried in Williamson Cemetery, in Northport.)

41st Alabama Infantry Regiment, Company B

COX, George Washington [probably the same as W.G.] (Son of Franklin Cox. Mustered as a “replacement”. Resident of Marshall County, Alabama at some point in time.)

COX, John Emory (Son of Franklin Cox. Enlisted 11/18/1861 at Camp Duncan, Clarksville,Tenn. He transferred to the 55th Alabama Infantry, Co. E. Resident of Marshall County, Alabama at some point in time.)

COX, William Posey (Son of Franklin Cox. Resident of Marshall County, Alabama at some point in time.)

COX, W.G. [see George Washington Cox] (Mustered as a “replacement”.)

COX, J.E.

COX, W.P.

41st Alabama Infantry Regiment, Company k

COX, Thomas Enlisted as a “replacement”.

Additional:

COX, James Marion [Monroe]
Born 5/12/1837 in Greenville, S.C. Son of George A. Cox and Matilda Denton. Living in Pickens Co. by 1855. A Confederate veteran. Service unknown. [Possibly 29th Ala. Inf. Co. F, or 4th Ala. Cavalry Co. H “Russell's Company”.] Died 10/14/1818. Buried in Bethlehem Church Cemetery.

COX, Daniel, Jr.
Born 1829 or 1830 in Pickens Co. Son of one of the earliest settlers of Pickens Co., Daniel Cox, Sr, who put in one of the first wheat and corn crops in Pickens Co. (between 1819-1823). The Cox family moved on to Choctaw Co., Miss. in 1835. He enlisted with the 15th Miss. Infantry, Co. I as a Private. Daniel, Jr. was killed in action at the Battle of Fishing Creek, Ky. on 1/19/1862. At Fishing Creek, many of the 15th were armed only with flintlock muskets. He is buried in a mass grave at the battle site. [Note that one source indicates that he may have died near Mill Spring, nine miles from the battle site, on 1/29/1862. See "A Boy's Story of the Battle of Mill Springs", Confederate Veteran, Vol. 18 (July 1910), pp. 335-336.]

COX, William Emry, Captain
Born on 9/10/1822 in S.C. Moved when he was a child to the Coalfire area of Pickens Co., where his father had homesteaded in 1819. Moved to Choctaw Co., Miss., in 1835. Later moved to Stateland and/or West Point, Miss. He was Capt. of the 8th Miss. Cavalry’s Co. K “Cox’s Company” which was raised in Calhoun Co., Miss. Died after 1868. Buried in Webster Co., Miss. in the Alva Community, at the Cox/Carver Family Cemetery.