McDonald Cemetery

Location:

County Road 167 (Old Florence Road)

Moulton, Lawrence County, Alabama

N 34° 29.344   W087° 17.781

Find A Grave Cemetery ID: 24330

Date of Visit: July 15, 2012

1st Lt

J.P.M. Moody

Co C

5 Regt

Ala Cav

CSA

March 5 1840

Oct 4 1890

John Daniel Williams

Pvt Co I 11 Ala Cav Regt

Confederate States Army

Mar 8 1832   Mar 21 1864

Killed in the Battle of Moulton

John Daniel Williams enlisted in the 10th Alabama Calvary in Whitesburg, Alabama in March of 1864. Private Williams wife, Sarah A.Williams, stated on an application of widows of Confederate soldiers that John was killed on 21 of March 1864. General Dodge reported that his calvary had struck two regiments of Confederate Infantry and 1000 men of Forrest’s Calvary three miles south of Moulton on March 21.

• Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Alabama.  Original data from: The National Archives, Entry for John D. Williams, 11th Alabama Calvary, Retrieved from at 3-Fold, May 27, 2022,  (http://www.fold3.com).

• Alabama, Texas and Virginia, U.S., Confederate Pensions, 1884-1958 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010. Entry for John D. Williams, 11 Alabama Calvary, retrieved from Ancestry.com, May 27, 2022,  (http://www.ancestry.com)

• The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies (128 vol., Washington: Printing Office, 1880-1901), Ser.1 Vol. 32, Part I, 625, Report of Brig. Gen. Grenville Dodge, March 21, 1864.