Title
Confederate Soldiers, Circa 1905
Subject
Civil War soldiers
Confederate soldiers
Description
On the front right, holding flag, is Montgomery Inge Burton. He was a member of the Home Guard that defended the covered bridge across the Black Warrior River that connected Northport and Tuscaloosa on April 3, 1865 against Brigadier General John T. Croxton's 2nd Michigan Cavalry Regiment.
Burton was 16 years of age and with a dozen other old men and young boys removed 30 feet of the bridge's flooring in a delaying action. Retreating, they fired single-shot weapons inflicting 23 Union casualties.
The next day Croxton's raiders burned most of the University of Alabama and much of Tuscaloosa.
Later in life he was the Editor-Publisher of The Tuskaloosa Gazette. He built the mercantile building on 6th Street that is now occupied by Five restaurant and Lampadas.
Burton was 16 years of age and with a dozen other old men and young boys removed 30 feet of the bridge's flooring in a delaying action. Retreating, they fired single-shot weapons inflicting 23 Union casualties.
The next day Croxton's raiders burned most of the University of Alabama and much of Tuscaloosa.
Later in life he was the Editor-Publisher of The Tuskaloosa Gazette. He built the mercantile building on 6th Street that is now occupied by Five restaurant and Lampadas.
Source
Tuscaloosa County Preservation Society
Date
Circa 1905
Contributor
Betty Slowe (Description)
Type
Photograph
Identifier
2318
Coverage
Tuscaloosa County (AL)
Original Format
Photograph
Physical Dimensions
8 inches by 10 inches