Life in Dixie during the War, 1861-1862-1863-1864-1865

I was thus made aware that Mrs. Lincoln and her illustrious husband were Southerners. I have since been in the small, mud-chinked log cabin in Elizabethtown, Kentucky, in which he was born, and in which his infancy and little boyhood were domiciled. Mrs. White had married an Alabamian, and as his wife became a citizen of his State. Her sister, Miss Todd, was visiting her at the enactment of the scene described, and under like circumstances, also became a citizen of Alabama. She married the valiant gentleman who introduced her to the public on that memorable occasion.

I have sought and obtained from Mrs. Mary Dawson Jordan, of Chattanooga, Tennessee, a daughter of Captain Jordan, a complete record of the names of the officers and members of this patriotic company of Alabama’s noble sons – native and adopted – which I subjoin as an item of history that will be read with interest by all who revere the memory of the Lost Cause and its noble defenders.

Muster Roll of the “Magnolia Cadets.”

N. H. R. Dawson, Captain.

(Enrolled for active service at Selma, Ala., on the 26th day of April, 1861. Mustered into service on the 7th day of May, 1861, at Lynchburg, Va.)

Commanded by Col. Ben Alston of the Fourth Alabama Regiment of Volunteers.

1. N. H. R. Dawson, Captain.

1. Shortbridge, Jr., Geo. D., 1st Lieutenant.

2. McCraw, S. Newton, 2nd Lieutenant.

3. Wilson, John R. 3rd Lieutenant.

1. Waddell, Ed. R., 1st Sergeant.

2. Price, Alfred C., 2nd Sergeant.

3. Daniel, Lucian A., 3rd Sergeant.

4. Goldsby, Boykin, 4th Sergeant.

1. Bell, Bush W., 1st Corporal.

2. Garrett, Robert E., 2nd Corporal.

3. Brown, James G., 3rd Corporal.

4. Cohen, Lewis, 4th Corporal.

1. Melton, George F., Musician.

2. Marshall, Jacob, Musician.

Privates.

1. Adkins, Agrippa

2. Adams, William S.

3. Avery, William C.

4. Byrd, William G.

5. Beattie, Thomas K.

6. Briggs, Charles H.

7. Bohannon, Robert B.

8. Baker, Eli W.

9. Bradley, Hugh C.

10. Cook, Thomas M.

11. Cook, James W.

12. Cook, Benson.

13. Caughtry, Joseph R.

14. Cole, George W.

15. Cleveland, George W.

16. Clevaland, Pulaski.

17. Cunningham, Frank M.

18. Coursey, William W.

19. Daniel, John R.

20. Densler, John E.

21. Donegay, James G.

22. Friday, Hilliard J.

23. Friday, James L.

24. Friday, John C.

25. Ford, Joseph H.

26. Grice, Henry F.

27. Haden, James G.

28. Harrill, Thornton R.

29. Hannon, Wm. H., Sr.