http://www.brettschulte.net/CWBlog/2006/06/10/colonel-harry-maury-csa/ Informed Amateurs Blog the American Civil War Sat, 11 Feb 2012 11:41:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= http://www.brettschulte.net/CWBlog/2006/06/10/colonel-harry-maury-csa/comment-page-1/#comment-2364 Soldiers, Deserters, and Turncoats Sun, 08 Feb 2009 17:59:32 +0000 http://www.brettschulte.net/CWBlog/?p=649#comment-2364 [...] One such was another of my ancestors, S. F. Ray. A small farmer in Baldwin County, Alabama, he avoided the initial calls for military service but signed up with a local cavalry company in early 1862. By that time conscription was in force and he would have had to serve somewhere. Local service allowed him to avoid being sent to some distant theater. The company eventually became part of the 3rd Florida Cavalry Battalion, which in turn was absorbed into the 15th Confederate Cavalry, an amalgam of five Florida and five Alabama cavalry companies under the command of the raffish Col. Harry Maury. [...] [...] One such was another of my ancestors, S. F. Ray. A small farmer in Baldwin County, Alabama, he avoided the initial calls for military service but signed up with a local cavalry company in early 1862. By that time conscription was in force and he would have had to serve somewhere. Local service allowed him to avoid being sent to some distant theater. The company eventually became part of the 3rd Florida Cavalry Battalion, which in turn was absorbed into the 15th Confederate Cavalry, an amalgam of five Florida and five Alabama cavalry companies under the command of the raffish Col. Harry Maury. [...]

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