Person:Albert Cargo (3)

The Main Hall of what is now Auburn University served as a hospital for confederate veterans Fever while serving in the 48th Alabama Infantry Co. A during the Civil War

1860 Blountsville, Blount County AL Census age 43, born TN, value of personal estate 100 Sarah, 30, born AL Cobb 12, born AL, attended school within the year

Co. "A" (raised in Blount County; mustered in, 7 April 1862; during its existence, aggregated 106 officers and men; total casualties: 11 KIA, 16 died of disease; 28 wounded; 6 discharged for disability; 6 captured; 6 deserted)

Private Cargo, Alexander (died of disease)

Sources of roster information: This roster of the 48th Alabama Infantry Regiment is taken from several sources. All, other than the National Archives and Records Service records, may be considered secondary and subject to error. Corrections to the roster are welcomed, so long as a source of information is provided.

Taylor, John Dykes. History of the 48th Alabama Volunteer Infantry Regimewnt, C.S.A. (Montgomery, 1902) [reprint, ed. and introd. by William Stanley Hoole. (Tuscaloosa : Confederate Publishing Co., 1985)] (Taylor) Compiled Services Records, National Archives (CSR) Confederate Military History [Alabama] (CMH) Confederate Veteran [periodical] (CV) National Archives and Records Service. [48th Alabama Infantry files] (NARS roll) Mamie Yearie, Recollections of the boys in gray, 1861-1865, Dayton, OH: Morningside Books, 1986 (Yearie)

1850 Blount Co Census

Albert Cargo (First_Last) Regiment Name 48 Alabama Infantry Side Confederate Company A Soldier's Rank_In Pvt. Soldier's Rank_Out Alternate Name Notes Film Number M374 roll 8

CONFEDERATE ALABAMA TROOPS

48th Regiment, Alabama Infantry

48th Infantry Regiment was formed at Auburn, Alabama, in May, 1862, and in June moved to Virginia with 1,100 men. Its companies were recruited in the counties of Jackson, De Kalb, Cherokee, Marshall, Blount, Colbert, and Calhoun. The regiment was brigaded under Generals Taliaferro, Law, and W.F. Perry, Army of Northern Virginia. It fought with the army from Cedar Mountain to Cold Harbor except when it was detached with Longstreet at Suffolk, Chickamauga, and Knoxville. The 48th was involved in the battles, skirmishes, and hardships of the trenches of Petersburg north of the James River and ended the war at Appomattox. It reported 73 casualties at Cedar Mountain, 50 at Second Manassas, and 42 at Sharpsburg. Of the 374 engaged at Gettysburg, more than twenty-five percent were disabled. In the Battle of The Wilderness it lost 11 killed, 30 wounded, and 8 missing, and during the Petersburg siege, June 13-December 31, there were 9 killed and 24 wounded. The unit surrendered with 14 officers and 122 men. Its field officers were Colonel James L. Sheffield; Lieutenant Colonels Jesse J. Alldridge, William M. Hardwick, and Abner A. Hughes; and Majors Enoch Alldridge, C.B. St. John, and John W. Wigginton.

1850 > ALABAMA > BLOUNT > 17 SUBDIVISION 130/131 Series: M432 Roll: 2 Page: 130

27 Cargo Abert 33 Farmer, Tn 28 Cargo Sarah 20 Ala. 29 Cargo Wm. R.C. 1 Ala.

Enlistment Date: 1862/04/07 Enlistment Information: Alabama, Warenton, Private. Date of Death: 1862/06/10 Death Information: Alabama, Auburn. Company Unit: A

Authority: List, Condition of Claims, 2nd Aud., C.S. Treas. Remarks: Sarah Cargo, widow, Blountsville, Ala. No des. List. - Verified 1865/01/21. Claim filed 1862/09/27. Authority: Historical Record Roll covering data to 1865/01/01.

1.   1850 Blount County AL Census
   REEL NO: M432-2 PAGE NO: 130.

   Census_Year 1850
   Microfilm # M432-2
   State AL
   County BLOUNT
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   CENSUS YR: 1850 STATE or TERRITORY: AL COUNTY: BLOUNT DIVISION: 17th Subdivision REEL NO: M432-2 PAGE NO: 130
   REFERENCE: Enumerated by Reuben Ellis 25th day of Oct., 1850

2.   Civil War Soldiers & Sailors System.