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Re: Alabama at Pensacola, January 1861

Alan, I have a couple of newspaper references to Alabama troops at Pensacola that might be of interest to you. They identify some of the Alabama troops at Pensacola as being "two Mobile companies," the "Haynesville (Ala.) Guards" and the "Tuskegee Light Infantry."

Here you go:

Richmond Daily Appeal, January 30, 1861:

"We of the Mississippi and Alabama Regiment, containing eight Mississippi and two Mobile companies, under Col. Abert, of Mississippi are quartered at the U. S. Marine Hospital, just opposite Fort Pickens, and about a mile and seven-eighths of a mile distant. "

Richmond Daily Appeal, February 4, 1861:

"The Haynesville (Ala.) Guards, Capt. Willingham, are ordered home by Governor Moore. It is an independent company, and has been paying its own expenses. The Governor wrote, them that there was no prospect of a fight, and that Fort Pickens would be given up."

Richmond Daily Appeal, February 5, 1861:

"A Pensacola letter, dated 25th Jan., states as follows:
"Brown, of the Auburn Guards, was killed to-day by Betts, of the Tuskegee Light Infantry. All justify Betts. The offence was an insult to Mrs. Betts."
Another dispatch states that Brown lived about an hour, during which he protested that he was not the man who insulted Mrs. Betts. He was killed with a bowie-knife, having first fired at Betts with a revolver, on the latter's making the attack."

Best,
Dale

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