Re: William Willis Bobo
My great grandfather, William's son Andrew Jackson Bobo, enlisted as a private in the fall of 1861 in Company E (The Calhoun Boys), 22nd Alabama Infantry, under the command of Captains John R. Northcutt and later Jacob G. Mordecai. They were ordered to western Tennessee and led into combat at the Battle of Shiloh in April 1862 under General Adley Gladden. He also saw action at Munfordville, KY; Perryville, KY; Murfreesboro, TN; and Bentonville, NC. He probably fought at Chickamauga, Missionary Ridge, Nashville, and Atlanta, but he did not mention these battles in his pension statement. Andrew was captured near Atlanta in August 1864 and spent time as a POW at Camp Chase, Ohio. After he was paroled in March 1865, he moved to Texas where he met his wife, Lee Ann Draper. They briefly lived in Maricopa County, Arizona, where he found employment as a stagecoach driver before returning to a life of farming near Fort Worth, Texas.