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A quote from a 1900 edition of a Centreville, Alabama newspaper


  Saturday, September 25, 2004


A quote from a 1900 edition of a Centreville, Alabama newspaper

Not exactly the latest news I could find, but still interesting.

From http://www.gdg.org/44thala.html:
 
I have before me a newspaper clipping from a February? 1900 edition of a Centreville, Alabama newspaper, in which a veteran of the 44th Alabama (Judge John S. Gardner) offers to return the sword of Captain George Davis of the 4th Maine. Seems that after the fight at the Devil's Den, Gardner and his men bagged Davis, 3 Lieutenants and 29 men who were caught "under a rock" (surely a ledge?). Indeed a whole gang of men from Davis' Co. F were captured and Davis did a stretch in Libby Prison.

Maybe someone has access to history records etc. to help the person who posted the excerpt (who has some questions about the story of the capture in the Devil's Den?)

06:52 AM   

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