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Re: Frank Blizzard - Lawrence County

Alan - Many thanks, again. I am now trying to imagine the intrigue that involved my family. Both of these men were related to Martha Blizzard. It looks like about half of the men that were related to her were in the Confederate army and about half in the Union. Based on the fact that these two served in Fennell's company, which apparently spent a fair amount of time hunting down Unionists, and that at about the same time her father, a brother, and a brother-in-law were trying to get to the Union lines for the purpose of enlisting, they may indeed have faced each other. I think I'll write up a summary of all this and post it on the forum in case others in the future are trying to track all this down.

Found on-line at Google books:

The Papers of Jefferson Davis: 1862 By Jefferson Davis, Mary Seaton Dix, Haskell M. Monroe, Linda Laswell Crist, James T. McIntosh - Page 490

Nov. 13 From John Gill Shorter: notes company of mounted partisan rangers under the command of Capt. Nelson Fennel has “rendered much efficient and valuable service” in northern Ala.; their term of service will soon expire and many of them are subject to conscription; other companies are needed there to enforce conscription and keep “in subjection, and remov(e) slaves, who have become, to some extent, demoralized from coming in contact with the enemy”; believes that conscription cannot be enforced in northern Ala. without military force; asks to retain Fennel’s company and organize two more for four months’ service and not subject to conscription; asks answer by telegraph; Davis AES. n.d.: “Secty of War – the men if enrolled, might be detained for the purpose of aiding the enrolment for the time mentioned, but the proposed organization would be temporary and its officers would be privates in the confederate forces if subject to conscription – please consider in connection with reliance on the Govr. To enrol (sic) men.”

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