Marlon beasley
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- Oct 14, 2018
Would love a muster call trying to find a larkin Beasley from Coosa Co AlabamaAfter doing some more research I was able to find that my great-great-great grandfather Isaiah Boles served in the 53rd Regiment, Alabama Partisan Rangers. I actually found 7 documents on footnote.com with his name on the company muster roll. It says that it was a mounted cavalry unit but was there anything different with "partisan rangers"? Just another name for cavalry?
I searched and found several sources giving a brief outline of their service. I also found two books "Whetstone, Adam Henry. History of the Fifty-Third Alabama Volunteer Infantry (Mounted). University, AL : Confederate Publishing Co., 1985" and "McLendon, Robert G., jr. History of the 53rd Regiment Alabama Volunteer Cavalry and M. W. Hannon's Cavalry Brigade, Army of Tennessee, C.S.A. (Troy, AL: BlackHorse Publishing, 2007)" but so far I haven't found them online for purchase. Probably a small book out of print.
Any ideas where I might be able to track that down?
member: 1722"]Partisan Rangers were originally intended to serve in their own local area, often at their own expense. Eventually the Confederate government decided that this seemed to be a way of avoiding regular service and all but a handful of these units were organized into new regiments and often consolidated into existing ones. Mosby's outfit was allowed to operate as partisan rangers for the duration, and then disbanded rather than surrender. If memory serves me, the 53rd Ala served with Wheeler and I think there is a newsgroup website for its modern incarnation.[/QUOTE]