Mobile Register September 18, 2012
THEODORE, Alabama — A Confederate memorial in honor of James Madison Lundy provided by the Department of Veterans' Affairs Memorial Programs Service will be dedicated on Sept. 23 at 3 p.m. at Magnolia Springs Baptist Church Cemetery in Theodore (605 Theodore-Dawes Road). There will be a special presentation by Company C Baldwin Rangers 15th Confederate Cavalry and local Sons of Confederate Veterans' camps. Everyone is welcome and descendants are especially encouraged to attend.
Drury Lundy, James' grandfather, served his country in Francis Marion's South Carolina militia during the American Revolution.
James Madison Lundy was born July 28, 1845, in Beaver Dam, Miss., in present-day George County. He was the third child out of six born to Samuel and Elizabeth Lundy. Not too long after his birth, James' family relocated to Mobile County. In March 1863, at the tender age of 17, James enlisted as a private in the 15th Alabama Cavalry Company H in the Confederate States of America, fighting against the very country his grandfather had fought to create. He was blue-eyed, had a fair complexion, light hair and was 5 foot 10 inches tall.
James' company performed reconnaissance missions along the Gulf Coast between Mississippi and Florida, providing vital intelligence of offshore enemy movements to Confederate command. James was injured some time in 1864 when he fell off his horse and broke his arm. The Battle of Mobile Bay was raging Aug. 1-23, 1864, however; the city of Mobile would not officially fall to the Union until the last days of the war in 1865.
After several months in the hospital amidst the chaos of this heated battle, James was finally captured and paroled at the close of the war on April 19, 1865, at Spanish Fort in Baldwin County. On April 25, 1871, at age 25, he married Lucinda Melissa Tillman. This couple had 10 children. James and Lucinda lived and farmed in the Saint Elmo area of Mobile County. James died on Jan. 12, 1923 at age 77.
THEODORE, Alabama — A Confederate memorial in honor of James Madison Lundy provided by the Department of Veterans' Affairs Memorial Programs Service will be dedicated on Sept. 23 at 3 p.m. at Magnolia Springs Baptist Church Cemetery in Theodore (605 Theodore-Dawes Road). There will be a special presentation by Company C Baldwin Rangers 15th Confederate Cavalry and local Sons of Confederate Veterans' camps. Everyone is welcome and descendants are especially encouraged to attend.
Drury Lundy, James' grandfather, served his country in Francis Marion's South Carolina militia during the American Revolution.
James Madison Lundy was born July 28, 1845, in Beaver Dam, Miss., in present-day George County. He was the third child out of six born to Samuel and Elizabeth Lundy. Not too long after his birth, James' family relocated to Mobile County. In March 1863, at the tender age of 17, James enlisted as a private in the 15th Alabama Cavalry Company H in the Confederate States of America, fighting against the very country his grandfather had fought to create. He was blue-eyed, had a fair complexion, light hair and was 5 foot 10 inches tall.
James' company performed reconnaissance missions along the Gulf Coast between Mississippi and Florida, providing vital intelligence of offshore enemy movements to Confederate command. James was injured some time in 1864 when he fell off his horse and broke his arm. The Battle of Mobile Bay was raging Aug. 1-23, 1864, however; the city of Mobile would not officially fall to the Union until the last days of the war in 1865.
After several months in the hospital amidst the chaos of this heated battle, James was finally captured and paroled at the close of the war on April 19, 1865, at Spanish Fort in Baldwin County. On April 25, 1871, at age 25, he married Lucinda Melissa Tillman. This couple had 10 children. James and Lucinda lived and farmed in the Saint Elmo area of Mobile County. James died on Jan. 12, 1923 at age 77.
Mobile Register September 18, 2012
THEODORE, Alabama — A Confederate memorial in honor of James Madison Lundy provided by the Department of Veterans' Affairs Memorial Programs Service will be dedicated on Sept. 23 at 3 p.m. at Magnolia Springs Baptist Church Cemetery in Theodore (605 Theodore-Dawes Road). There will be a special presentation by Company C Baldwin Rangers 15th Confederate Cavalry and local Sons of Confederate Veterans' camps. Everyone is welcome and descendants are especially encouraged to attend.
Drury Lundy, James' grandfather, served his country in Francis Marion's South Carolina militia during the American Revolution.
James Madison Lundy was born July 28, 1845, in Beaver Dam, Miss., in present-day George County. He was the third child out of six born to Samuel and Elizabeth Lundy. Not too long after his birth, James' family relocated to Mobile County. In March 1863, at the tender age of 17, James enlisted as a private in the 15th Alabama Cavalry Company H in the Confederate States of America, fighting against the very country his grandfather had fought to create. He was blue-eyed, had a fair complexion, light hair and was 5 foot 10 inches tall.
James' company performed reconnaissance missions along the Gulf Coast between Mississippi and Florida, providing vital intelligence of offshore enemy movements to Confederate command. James was injured some time in 1864 when he fell off his horse and broke his arm. The Battle of Mobile Bay was raging Aug. 1-23, 1864, however; the city of Mobile would not officially fall to the Union until the last days of the war in 1865.
After several months in the hospital amidst the chaos of this heated battle, James was finally captured and paroled at the close of the war on April 19, 1865, at Spanish Fort in Baldwin County. On April 25, 1871, at age 25, he married Lucinda Melissa Tillman. This couple had 10 children. James and Lucinda lived and farmed in the Saint Elmo area of Mobile County. James died on Jan. 12, 1923 at age 77.
THEODORE, Alabama — A Confederate memorial in honor of James Madison Lundy provided by the Department of Veterans' Affairs Memorial Programs Service will be dedicated on Sept. 23 at 3 p.m. at Magnolia Springs Baptist Church Cemetery in Theodore (605 Theodore-Dawes Road). There will be a special presentation by Company C Baldwin Rangers 15th Confederate Cavalry and local Sons of Confederate Veterans' camps. Everyone is welcome and descendants are especially encouraged to attend.
Drury Lundy, James' grandfather, served his country in Francis Marion's South Carolina militia during the American Revolution.
James Madison Lundy was born July 28, 1845, in Beaver Dam, Miss., in present-day George County. He was the third child out of six born to Samuel and Elizabeth Lundy. Not too long after his birth, James' family relocated to Mobile County. In March 1863, at the tender age of 17, James enlisted as a private in the 15th Alabama Cavalry Company H in the Confederate States of America, fighting against the very country his grandfather had fought to create. He was blue-eyed, had a fair complexion, light hair and was 5 foot 10 inches tall.
James' company performed reconnaissance missions along the Gulf Coast between Mississippi and Florida, providing vital intelligence of offshore enemy movements to Confederate command. James was injured some time in 1864 when he fell off his horse and broke his arm. The Battle of Mobile Bay was raging Aug. 1-23, 1864, however; the city of Mobile would not officially fall to the Union until the last days of the war in 1865.
After several months in the hospital amidst the chaos of this heated battle, James was finally captured and paroled at the close of the war on April 19, 1865, at Spanish Fort in Baldwin County. On April 25, 1871, at age 25, he married Lucinda Melissa Tillman. This couple had 10 children. James and Lucinda lived and farmed in the Saint Elmo area of Mobile County. James died on Jan. 12, 1923 at age 77.
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