The photo below - taken around 1900 - shows a group of CSA veterans. Many of the men are likely from Choctaw County. The photo is owned by Brenda Landry who kindly sent us a good scan and gave us permission to use it here on this web site. We divided the photo into four sections in order to show faces to best advantage.

The following members of the 38th Alabama Infantry are depicted in this group. Please help us identify these men and others in the photo: J. W. Collins, (2) J. W. Doggett, J. P. Moore, J. M. Wright, C. T. Kelley, S. T. Newton, W. J. Downey, and S. Boykin.

In her book Choctaw, Sumter and Washington Counties’ CSA Companies, Ann H. Gay has a list of 53 names from the CSA Pension Book in the County Probate Office. Some of the handwriting was indecipherable as seen by the blanks following some initials.

MUSTER OF C.S.A. VETERANS at first encampment at Thornton Springs, Choctaw County, Alabama, 1900:
L. B. Wimberly, E. H. Braswell, J. C. Carlisle, J. W. Collins, (2) J. W. Doggett, J. P. Moore, M. E. Wright, (1) C. T. Ezell, G. W. Mosley, S. A. Wright, A. V. Carlisle, J. Wesley Johnston, J. M. Foushee, J. J. Kelley, E. McLaughlin, W. M. Meador, Ira Stafford, C. C. Cooke, A. J. Roberts, S. A. Odom, A. C. _____, F. Presslar, J. P. Thompson, A. Cook, J. R. Burns, J. R. Mosley, L. R. Nobles, M. D. Scanlin, A. J. _____, J. T. Mills, T. B. Ferrell, T. W. Musgrove (from a Florida unit), Steve D.____, J.Q.A. Johnson, J. P. Thompson, S. T. Newton, W. J. Downey, J. I. Stewart, H. Wilson, Moses Shirley, O. C. Ulmer, J. E. Littlepage, J. H. Atkinson, C. Ellett, S. Carroll, M. Carroll, W. W. Craft, T. C. Owens, Moses Savage, W. H. Phillips, J. H. Wilson, Allen Jenkins, Solomon Boykin and S. D. Oliver.

IDENTIFIED:
(1) Charles "Charlie" Thomas Ezell, 54th Alabama, is the great grandfather of Jim Ezell of Tuscaloosa. He is standing on the far left back row (photo segment 1 above) with a crutch under his left arm and a cane in his right hand.

(2) J.W. Doggett is George Washington Doggett, Co C, 38th Alabama. He relocated from Alabama to Bradley County, Arkansas. George was known as "Wash" by his family. He stands in the back row, far right (no facial hair) in the Choctaw Veterans photo segment 1 above. He is the great-great grandfather of William Spears of Beebe, Arkansas.