This portrait is from the CONFEDERATE VETERAN, Vol. 7, No. 12 (Dec. 1899), p. 551. The information below is from the same page, as well as Vol. 33, No. 12 (Dec. 1925), p. 468. Allen C. Oxford was born on June 6, 1841, in Pickens Co., Alabama. At the time of the outbreak of the War Between the States, he had been working at a photograph gallery in Tuscaloosa, Ala. He enlisted in the "McCaa Rangers," then in the Pope-Walker Battalion, and finally in Company D, Eighth Regiment Confederate Cavalry in Wheeler's Corps. He saw service in Kentucky, Tennessee, Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina. After the war, he lived in Alabama and Mississippi. In 1868 he married Alethea Whitlow of Old Spring Hill, Ala. After her death in 1880, he married Fannie Spiva of Camden, Ala. (She died in 1919). A.C. Oxford was in the photograph business in Birmingham, Ala., from 1872-84. He was also very active in Confederate veterans organizations. He died on Sept. 30, 1925, in Birmingham, Ala., and was survived by one son-in-law, two granddaughters, and many nieces and nephews.

Thanks to Leon Basile for this information.∼Prior to the beginning of the Civil War, Allen.C. Oxford lived in Pickens County, Alabama. On the 1860 census his occupation was listed as "Clerk". On November 14, 1861, in nearby Columbus, Mississippi, he enlisted as a private in Captain B.B. McCaa's Company (McCaa's Rangers), Pope Walker's Troopers Battalion of Cavalry. This company would later become Company B, 4th Battalion, Mississippi Cavalry. Reorganizations of the cavalry would subsequently find this company called Company B, 2nd (Brewer's) Battalion, Mississippi and Alabama Cavalry, and, after combining with another battalion, Company D, 8th (Wade's) Confederate Cavalry, also sometimes referred to as 2nd Mississippi and Alabama Cavalry. All records of Oxford with this command show his rank as private. However, in a history of the 8th Confederate Cavalry written many years after the war by George Knox Miller, who had served as captain of Company A, Oxford is referred to as a sergeant. During the Battle of Murfreesboro (Stone's River), the unit, operating as a part of General Joseph Wheeler's Cavalry, was assigned to attack trains that were behind the Union lines. "Captain B. B. McCaa of Co. "D", 8th Confederate, was mortally wounded Jany. 1st in one of these attacks on the trains. The officer was lifted from his saddle by Sergeants Alfred Atwater and A. C. Oxford, and taken to a farmhouse nearby where he died that night. The detail of four men that had been sent to bear him to the house were employed the next morning in making a box for the body and digging a grave. A company of the enemy came up and arrested them. Sergeant Oxford gave the Royal Arch Mason's society "obligation" to the Captain, whereupon the prisoners were released."
In later years he joined the United Confederate Veterans and was very active in that organization. The UCV had "camps" in hundreds of towns and cities across the South, and even in some of the larger cites north of the Mason-Dixon line. Military style ranks were assigned to the leaders of the organization. Each state was divided into four brigades. In a publication printed for distribution at the national reunion and meeting of the UCV that took place in 1910, in Mobile, Alabama, he is listed as "Brig. General A.C. Oxford, Commanding 4th Brigade, Birmingham, Ala."
On the 1900 census his occupation is listed as "Artist".