H. C. Dillard
Confederate Veteran
Birth Date: 1843
Died: December 22, 1904
Co. C. 4th. Alabma Cavalry
Suggested edit: OLD CONFEDERATE DIES.
Henry C. Dillard, formerly of this county, died recently In the Confederate Soldiers Home in Dallas, Tex., of which he had been an Inmate for several years. Dillard was an ex-Confederate soldier and is credited with killing the first Union soldier ever killed In Jackson County. He killed a soldier of General Mitchell's brigade who was) robbing a smokehouse on the Dillard place and was captured by a squad of the man's comrades, tried by court martial and sentenced to be shot In Huntsville. Dillard was placed on a train under heavy guard, hut escaped by Jumping through a window. He was a member of Capt. Frank B. Gurlev's troop of the Fourth Alabama cavalry.
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The Birmingham News
Birmingham, Alabama
17 Jan 1905, Tue • Page 9
Confederate Veteran
Birth Date: 1843
Died: December 22, 1904
Co. C. 4th. Alabma Cavalry
Suggested edit: OLD CONFEDERATE DIES.
Henry C. Dillard, formerly of this county, died recently In the Confederate Soldiers Home in Dallas, Tex., of which he had been an Inmate for several years. Dillard was an ex-Confederate soldier and is credited with killing the first Union soldier ever killed In Jackson County. He killed a soldier of General Mitchell's brigade who was) robbing a smokehouse on the Dillard place and was captured by a squad of the man's comrades, tried by court martial and sentenced to be shot In Huntsville. Dillard was placed on a train under heavy guard, hut escaped by Jumping through a window. He was a member of Capt. Frank B. Gurlev's troop of the Fourth Alabama cavalry.
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The Birmingham News
Birmingham, Alabama
17 Jan 1905, Tue • Page 9
H. C. Dillard
Confederate Veteran
Birth Date: 1843
Died: December 22, 1904
Co. C. 4th. Alabma Cavalry
Suggested edit: OLD CONFEDERATE DIES.
Henry C. Dillard, formerly of this county, died recently In the Confederate Soldiers Home in Dallas, Tex., of which he had been an Inmate for several years. Dillard was an ex-Confederate soldier and is credited with killing the first Union soldier ever killed In Jackson County. He killed a soldier of General Mitchell's brigade who was) robbing a smokehouse on the Dillard place and was captured by a squad of the man's comrades, tried by court martial and sentenced to be shot In Huntsville. Dillard was placed on a train under heavy guard, hut escaped by Jumping through a window. He was a member of Capt. Frank B. Gurlev's troop of the Fourth Alabama cavalry.
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The Birmingham News
Birmingham, Alabama
17 Jan 1905, Tue • Page 9
Confederate Veteran
Birth Date: 1843
Died: December 22, 1904
Co. C. 4th. Alabma Cavalry
Suggested edit: OLD CONFEDERATE DIES.
Henry C. Dillard, formerly of this county, died recently In the Confederate Soldiers Home in Dallas, Tex., of which he had been an Inmate for several years. Dillard was an ex-Confederate soldier and is credited with killing the first Union soldier ever killed In Jackson County. He killed a soldier of General Mitchell's brigade who was) robbing a smokehouse on the Dillard place and was captured by a squad of the man's comrades, tried by court martial and sentenced to be shot In Huntsville. Dillard was placed on a train under heavy guard, hut escaped by Jumping through a window. He was a member of Capt. Frank B. Gurlev's troop of the Fourth Alabama cavalry.
CLIPPED FROM
The Birmingham News
Birmingham, Alabama
17 Jan 1905, Tue • Page 9
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