The Gulf City Guards, Roster: April 23, 1861

The 92 officers and men (age and rank) of the Gulf City Guards Militia, as of their boarding the steamer Selma, bound for Montgomery, April 23, 1861. “This is a fine and gallant company [the Gulf City Guards], of the flower of Mobile. Verily has Mobile contributed 400 of her best and most chivalrous youth in the four companies that have gone North…at 5 o’clock, the Guards moved from the armory, and marched up Royal to Dauphin, and down Dauphin to the steamer ‘Selma,’ on board of which they took passage…”                         – New Orleans Picayune   Alvarez, Alexander King,  20 Anderson, Simeon H.,  24; Anderson, William T.,  24; Ayers, William C.,  21

Ballufoy, Francis C. ; Bartee, J. Frank,; Bealle, Crawford Montgomery,  19; Bingham, Charles Ogden, 1SGT,  31; Bostwick, William W.,  19; Branch, Thomas W.,  22; Bullis, Halsted C.,

Campbell, Charles C.,  18; Carver, Thomas J. Jr.,  18; Chappell, William A.; Comegys, William Crawford,  24; Cooke, James Jarvis,  27; Cotlin, John Joseph, Jr.,  24; Couch, Edgar William,  18; Couch, James E.,  22; Crane, Julius M.; Cuthbert, Octavius,  20;

Dailey, James,  Musician,  [30]; Deas, Thomas Jerome,  20; Dent, George Truman,  19; Donovan, Octavius C.,  22; Downe, Charles W.,  28

Ellis, Henry J.,  1CPL,  25; England, Richard,  24

Flannery, Matthew W.,  23; Ford, Edward C.,  22; Griffing, Hiram L., [2]CPL,  24; Hall, Alexander P.,  34; Hall, Benjamin R., ; Hall, Willis Edgar/Emerson,  19; Hampshire, Francis P.,  20; Harris, Willmond C.,  21; Hartean, Samuel W. ; Hartwell, William, Captain,  41; Hawthorn, Keeler Hartwell,  20; Holland, Jacob F., 1LT,  27; Hollingsworth, James B.,  23; Holmes, John W. Jr.,  19; Hudson, John J.; Huggins, Charles R.,  21; Hunt, James P.

Kellogg, Quincy A.,  25

Langdon, Lewis B.,  21; Langdon, Daniel Webster, 3SGT,  28; Lavalette, John L.,  23; Lee, Samuel B.; Lee, Hugh Alison,  24; Lethwaite, Alexander E.,  [21]; Lewis, John H.,  24

Mahorner, Matthew,  22; McVoy, Wilberforce; Melville, Thomas H.,  [23]; Merrill, Willis M. , [13–17]; Monk, William Harrison,  18

Nash, Franklin J.,  3CPL, 21

Partridge, Daniel Jr.,  2SGT,  24; Partridge, William, @20; Payne, John,  24; Pillson, William A.; Punch, John Asbury,  20

Randall, James F.,  23; Rea, George H.,  21; Richey, Robert,  26; Robbins, Arthur Ferris, 2LT(jg), 23; Rondeau, Henry W.,  21; Russell, Simeon J.M.,  [28?]

Sharpe, Gordon,  22; Shaw, Robert H.,  [22;] Sheffield, Frederick Augusta, 5SGT,  23; Sheffield, Robert Paul, [4]Cpl,  20; Simpson, John Richard, 2LT(sr),  28; Spencer, Francis E.,   21; Spencer, Thomas A.,  24; Steele, Charles,  30; Steele, William H.,  22; Sturdivant, Norwood,  20; Summersell,  George Fishweek,  22; Summersell, William Fishweek,  25

Tarleton, William W.,  21; Taylor, John T.,  20; Toomer, Edward Terry

Vail, Lovick C.,  17

Ward, George Emory,  29; Weaver, Walter T., 21; White, Emmett J.; Wilkins, Sidney T.,  20; Wragg, Henry Clay, 21

Young, Samuel A.,

An additional 13 volunteers joined the company, May ’61: Barker, Walter B.,,  age 19; 5-10-61 “at Mobile” by John Curren Bestor, John T.,   age?; 5-15-61 at Mobile Bibb, Thomas H. Jr., [21]; 5-22-61 at Mobile Brooks, Samuel Berry,  21; 5-22-61 at Mobile Hudson, James, age ?; 5-15-61 at Mobile Johnston, Henry C.,  @25?; 5-10-61 at Mobile Keines, Leander J., 24?; 5-18-61 at Mobile Pardieu, Lucian B., 30; 5-22-61 at Mobile Richardson, Samuel H.,  29; 5-22-61 at Mobile Sheehan, Francis,  19; 5-22-61 at Mobile Shotwell, Reuben H., 31; 5-22-61 at Mobile Turner, Jacob Henry,  18; 5-22-61 at Mobile Turner, George Elmore,  20; 5-22-61 at Mobile