From the recollections of James Calloway Travis: "Mark Butler Travis was a volunteer in the Mexican War. Belonged to the South C Palmetto Regiment under Col. Pierce M. Butler, was shot on battlefield at Churubusco, Mexico. Picked up for dead. Was shot in head and survived until Confederate War, married Lou Brantley at Monroe County, Alabama, a very excellent woman and borne to them three children, boy and two girls." Note from his niece: "The Brantleys of Monroe County were evidently of the Green Brantley line -- see Mr. J. Vernon Brantley's book on that family.
From Barbara King 1/29/99: Mark B. Travis, 2nd lieutenant; honorably discharged, April 1, 1861; died at Sparta, Alabama, during the war (influenza?). He fought at Bull Run, VA with the Conecuh Guards, the first company that left the county. He served as Clerk of the Circuit Court for four consecutive terms.
From B. F. Riley, 1881 "History of Conecuh County": "When Mark was only seventeen, he left home to attend medical lectures in a distant state as had a remarkable aptness in the course of medicine under the supervision of Dr. John Watkins. But while en route to college, he met the famous Palmetto Regiment of South Carolina on their way to join General Scott in Mexico. He enlisted with them and went to Mexico. During this he received a head wound and wasn't with them when they entered the Mexican Capital. But he recovered and served throughout the remainder of the struggle."
From Barbara King 1/29/99: Mark B. Travis, 2nd lieutenant; honorably discharged, April 1, 1861; died at Sparta, Alabama, during the war (influenza?). He fought at Bull Run, VA with the Conecuh Guards, the first company that left the county. He served as Clerk of the Circuit Court for four consecutive terms.
From B. F. Riley, 1881 "History of Conecuh County": "When Mark was only seventeen, he left home to attend medical lectures in a distant state as had a remarkable aptness in the course of medicine under the supervision of Dr. John Watkins. But while en route to college, he met the famous Palmetto Regiment of South Carolina on their way to join General Scott in Mexico. He enlisted with them and went to Mexico. During this he received a head wound and wasn't with them when they entered the Mexican Capital. But he recovered and served throughout the remainder of the struggle."
From the recollections of James Calloway Travis: "Mark Butler Travis was a volunteer in the Mexican War. Belonged to the South C Palmetto Regiment under Col. Pierce M. Butler, was shot on battlefield at Churubusco, Mexico. Picked up for dead. Was shot in head and survived until Confederate War, married Lou Brantley at Monroe County, Alabama, a very excellent woman and borne to them three children, boy and two girls." Note from his niece: "The Brantleys of Monroe County were evidently of the Green Brantley line -- see Mr. J. Vernon Brantley's book on that family.
From Barbara King 1/29/99: Mark B. Travis, 2nd lieutenant; honorably discharged, April 1, 1861; died at Sparta, Alabama, during the war (influenza?). He fought at Bull Run, VA with the Conecuh Guards, the first company that left the county. He served as Clerk of the Circuit Court for four consecutive terms.
From B. F. Riley, 1881 "History of Conecuh County": "When Mark was only seventeen, he left home to attend medical lectures in a distant state as had a remarkable aptness in the course of medicine under the supervision of Dr. John Watkins. But while en route to college, he met the famous Palmetto Regiment of South Carolina on their way to join General Scott in Mexico. He enlisted with them and went to Mexico. During this he received a head wound and wasn't with them when they entered the Mexican Capital. But he recovered and served throughout the remainder of the struggle."
From Barbara King 1/29/99: Mark B. Travis, 2nd lieutenant; honorably discharged, April 1, 1861; died at Sparta, Alabama, during the war (influenza?). He fought at Bull Run, VA with the Conecuh Guards, the first company that left the county. He served as Clerk of the Circuit Court for four consecutive terms.
From B. F. Riley, 1881 "History of Conecuh County": "When Mark was only seventeen, he left home to attend medical lectures in a distant state as had a remarkable aptness in the course of medicine under the supervision of Dr. John Watkins. But while en route to college, he met the famous Palmetto Regiment of South Carolina on their way to join General Scott in Mexico. He enlisted with them and went to Mexico. During this he received a head wound and wasn't with them when they entered the Mexican Capital. But he recovered and served throughout the remainder of the struggle."
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