The members of the ensemble are numbered and identified as follows [numbers 1 through 9 are on the back row]: 1. Erskine Hawkins; 2. Ida James; 3. "Big Jack"; 4. Avery Parrish; 5. Bob Range [?]; 6. "Gate Mouth"; 7. Marcellus Green; 8. "Captain"...
Edgar Lee entered the service as a sergeant in the "Montgomery True Blues," which became Company G of the 3rd Alabama Infantry Regiment. This company was disbanded as infantry in February 1862 and was reconstituted as an artillery unit.
(Uniform indicates rank of brigadier general.) Commissioned as a first lieutenant in the Montgomery True Blues and appointed a major in the 18th Alabama Infantry. After promoting through the grades, Holtzclaw was promoted to brigadier general in...
"Richmond Blues and Alabama National Guard Swinging Into First Avenue and Nineteenth Street." From the rotogravure section of the Birmingham Age-Herald, Sunday, June 18, 1916.