Miles,
What are you doin' over here in Arkansas? Just joking! Miles there is a lady named Deborah Bass-Frazier, an attorney, who is a moderately frequent contributor to the Alabama message board and her areas of interest are "The Old Federal Road", the 36th Alabama Infantry and "The Southern Claims Commission". She might be able to help you. Her website is located at http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~oldfedrd/index.html .
Jim