Madison County, Alabama Obituaries

YOUNGEST CONFEDERATE - The youngest Confederate veteran who attended the Nashville reunion was W. E. CLUTTS, of Huntsville, who entered the service in 1861 at the tender age of 13 years and 5 months, under Capt. John Cardner, Company K, Forty-ninth Alabama, and in 1865, after all was over, was paroled at Danville, Va.

[The Guin Gazette - Marion County AL - July 2, 1897 - Transcribed and submitted by Veneta McKinney]

Huntsville claims the youngest Confederate veteran in the country. He is John W. Mayhall, who at the age of 14 years 4 months and 7 days enlisted in Company H. Captain Gales, Twelfth Alabama Infantry, March 18, 1861. On the same day he and the command two which he belonged left Decatur for Richmond,. He was at the first Battle of Manassas, at the siege of Yorktown, Battle of Williamsburg, Seven Pines. Malvern Hill, the second battle of Manassas, South Mountain, and Sharpsburg. He was three times slightly wounded. Availing himself of all opportunity for a furlough. Mayhall got a leave of absence and after a few weeks re-enlisted in Wheeler's Twelfth Alabama Cavalry and followed Sherman in his march to the sea. After participating in several battles Mayhall surrendered with the Twelfth at Greensboro, April 1865.

[From The Guin Gazette, Marion County AL - May 28, 1897 - Transcribed and submitted by Veneta McKinney]