Three Scott brothers (Alfred Lewis, James McClure "Jim" and John Zachary Holliday "Zack") had interesting and intertwined service in the 10th Virginia Cavalry and 9th Alabama Infantry. All three were born at "Belair" in Spotsylvania County, Virginia: Alfred on 2/12/38, Jim on 7/13/41 and Zack on 3/14/43. Brief descriptions of the three are given in the 10th Va. Cav. book in The Virginia Regimental Histories Series by Robert J. Driver, Jr., published by H. E. Howard.
- Alfred Lewis Scott attended the University of Virginia and was a planter in Alabama. He enrolled in Company G of the 9th Alabama but in late March 1862 joined Jim and Zack in the 10th Virginia Cavalry. Alfred went on to become a Lieutenant and Ordnance Officer in Perry's Florida Brigade, but came back to the 9th Alabama for the Petersburg siege until the end of the war. He participated in 1st Bull Run, Chancellorsville, the Wilderness, Spotsylvania, 2nd Cold Harbor and the Crater, which he describes in his memoir, including a roll of Co. G, 9th Alabama (at Virginia Historical Society, Richmond).
- Jim attended Washington [and Lee] College, first enlisting in the Fredericksburg Artillery, then transferring to the 5th Va. Cav. and finally Co. F of the 10th Va. Cav. in August 1861. He was wounded at Brandy Station on 9 June 1863, but upon recovering he set out for the army in Pennsylvania with Dunk Taylor, Alfred's brother-in-law, who was in an aide to Gen. Perry. Jim fell in with the 9th Alabama on the march and fought with them in the battle of Gettysburg, where he was wounded near the Roger's house on the Emmitsburg Pike on the second day, but recovered in time to join the regiment in the next day's fight as well. He saw Zack, then part of a scouting party that had become separated from Stuart and in the meantime had been scouting for Longstreet and Lee. Zack insisted Jim rejoin his command, but Jim resolved to remain with the infantry until the fight was over. Jim's account is also found at the Virginia Historical Society, Richmond. After the war Jim attended Washington College and obtained a medical degree from the University of Virginia.
- Zack attended the University of Virginia from 1860-1861 before enlisting in the 5th Va. Cav. and then transferring to the 10th Va. Cavalry. In the first half of 1863 he served as a Brigade Scout and was captured at Hagerstown, Md. on 12 July '63. Sent to Point Lookout, he was exchanged and went back to being a scout. He surrendered with Johnston's army in North Carolina. Post-war he attended the University of Virginia and was a lawyer and Commonwealth Attorney in Galveston, Texas. Jim said that Zack had been a teacher in Stonewall Jackson's school for negroes before the war.