Excellent information, as you usually provide.

The veterans offer testimony that they enrolled with Capt Donelson's company, 12th Alabama Partisian Ranger Battn. Assume they mean summer of 1862. If so, company These companies were consolidated with the 1st Alabama Cavalry shortly before the Battle of Murfreesboro. Indications are that Pope, Oden and Graves, if they ever enrolled with the 12th Alabama PR Battn, soon left that command.

Oden was 1st Lieutenant and later Captain of Co "E", Roddey's 4th Alabama Cavalry Regt. John W Pope also appears on roll with that regiment. James H Oden enlisted much later with Co "C", 12th Alabama Cavalry, Mar 25, 1864. That's after it was broken out of the 1st Alabama Cavalry. B J Graves states that he served under Capt C L Wilhite in Col R O 'Pickens' Cavalry. He means R O Pickett's Cavalry, the 10th Alabama Regiment.

Don't understand Graves's insistence on his pension application that Capt Wilhite's company belonged to the 1st Alabama Cavalry. Then again, these applications were made about fifty years after the war ended.