Location:
County Road 20
Blount County, Alabama
N 33° 56.707 W086° 23.983
FAG: 1995274
Date of Visit: September 15, 2012
John Wadsworth
Alabama
Pvt Co F 42 Regt Ala Inf
Confederate States Army
Jun 10 1845 Dec 22 1929
John C Reneau
Alabama
Pvt Co I 49 Regt Ala Inf
Confederate States Army
April 21 1836 April 3 1910
Solomon Cornelieus
Sgt Co I 49 Regt Ala Inf
Confederate States Army
1836 1910
Elijah Morton
Pvt. Co I 49th Regt Ala Inf
Confederate States Army
1836 1898
Sidney F Fulenwider
Pvt Co I 19 Ala Inf
Confederate States Army
Dec 29 1832 Mar 6 1906
E.A. Thornhill
Pvt Co I. 16 Regt Ga Inf
Confederate States Army
Feb 15 1843 Nov 30 1908
Thomas Cornelius
Pvt Co I 49th Regt Ala Inf
Confederate States Army
1838 1909
William E Reneau
2D Lt 12 Tenn Calvary
Confederate States Army
1838 1865
William Edward Reneau appears to have transferred from a Mississippi regiment in 1862 to the 1st Tennessee Calvary which became the 12th Tennessee Cavalry, known as Green’s Calvary, in 1863. William was appointed 2nd Lieutenant in Company F on February 13, 1863. Lieutenant Reneau on the staff of R.V. Richardson in Forrest’s Calvary as Assistant Inspector General. He was still doing business of the regiment as late as Jun of 1864 when he wrote a letter to a Colonel Johnson. His date of death is not clear. It has been reported that he died in the Battle of Shelbyville in 1863 and his military marker’s year of death is 1865.
- Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Alabama. Original data from: The National Archives, Entry for William E. Reneau, 17th Mississippi Infantry and 12th Tennessee Calvary, Retrieved from at 3-Fold, October 3, 2021, (http://www.fold3.com).
- Sterling, Robin Blount County Confederate Soldiers Volume 3: Miscellaneous (Lula Publishers, 2013), 354.
