My Confederate Ancestor is my Great Great Grandfather, William Powell Ward of Coosa County, Alabama. The following is an extract concerning his service: FIFTY-THIRD ALABAMA REGIMENT This was a mounted regiment organized in Montgomery in November, 1862, with Moses W. Hannon as Colonel, and operated with the Army of the Tennessee. There was a Company C. in it from Coosa, of which John C. Humphries was captain; William T. Massingale, 1st Lt.; John W. Hunter, 2nd Lt.; George W. McEwen, 3rd Lt.; Gibson Burkhalter, 1st Sergt.; William P. Ward, 2nd Sergt. http://www.rootsweb.com/~alcoosa/coosacw.htm HIS BIOGRAPHY MY CONFEDERATE ANCESTOR LINEAGE   PROPHETIC WORDS: "Every man should endeavor to understand the meaning of subjugation before it is too late. It means the history of this heroic struggle will be written by the enemy; that our youth will be trained by Northern school teachers; will learn from Northern school books their version of the war; will be impressed by the influences of history and education to regard our gallant dead as traitors, and our maimed veterans as fit objects for derision. . ." Maj. Gen. Patrick R. Cleburne, CSA (Killed, Battle of Franklin, Tennessee, November 30, 1864) "We are a band of brothers/Native to the soil..." Unable to initialize MIDI player You are listening to "The Bonnie Blue Flag"