Location:
Love Joy Road
Beaverton, Lamar County, Alabama
N 33° 53.732 W087° 59.436
Find A Grave Cemetery ID: 24091
Date of Visit: January 9, 2017
Moses Fletcher Gosa
Pvt Co H 4 Ala Cav
Confederate States Army
Jan 7, 1839 Nov 24 1914
Moses entered into the service of the 4th Alabama Calvary in Chickasaw, Alabama in 1862. This was likely Roddy's or Russell's Calvary. In the fall he was captured at Holly Springs. At some point he was paroled and in March of 1863 he re-listed in the 4th Mississippi Calvary. He was captured and paroled in Selma in 1865.
His Find a Grave memorial states:
Moses applied for a Civil War - Union pension and was denied same as no such unit existed.Moses later applied for a Civil War - Confederate pension and was accepted on statements from others - there is no record of him serving in the Confederate Army.
- Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/24798840/moses_fletcher-gosa: accessed March 9, 2024), memorial page for Moses Fletcher Gosa (1 Jan 1833–29 Nov 1914), Find a Grave Memorial ID 24798840, citing Love Joy Cemetery, Beaverton, Lamar County, Alabama, USA; Maintained by Bryan Winter (contributor 46975843).
- Alabama Department of Archives & History; Montgomery, Alabama; Alabama Census of Confederate Soldiers, 1907 and 1921; Roll: Multiple Regiments (Lamar County #38); Roll Number: 202. Entry for Moses Fletcher Gosa, retrieved from Ancestry.com, March 9, 2024,. (http://www.ancestry.com)
