Guide to the E.W. Tarrant Letters MSS.1383
Tarrant, E.W.
- Publication:
W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library, The University of Alabama
Mary Harmon Bryant Hall
August 1994
500 Hackberry Lane
Box 870266
Tuscaloosa, Alabama, 35487-0266
205.348.0500
archives@ua.edu
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E. W. Tarrant letters
- Unit ID:
MSS.1383
- Repository:
W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library, The University of Alabama
- Quantity:
0.1 Linear feet (2 item, 12 pieces)
- Dates:
1914 October
- Abstract:
Two letters written from Aransas Pass, Texas, to a Mrs. Brown in October 1914, containing extensive reminiscences of the Warrior Guards (Company A of the Fifth Alabama Infantry Regiment) and Fowler's Artillery Battery. Both units were organized at Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
Scope and Contents note
Two letters written from Aransas Pass, Texas, to a Mrs. Brown in October 1914, containing extensive reminiscences of the Warrior Guards and Fowler's Battery.
Biographical/Historical note
E.W. Tarrant enlisted in the Warrior Guard of Tuscaloosa, Alabama, on 16 April 1861. The Warrior Guards, under Col. R. E. Rodes, moved to Montgomery and there became Company H of the Fifth Alabama Infantry Regiment and then accompanied the new Confederate government when it moved to Richmond, Virginia. Once in Virginia, the 5th Alabama became part of the brigade under the command of General G.P.T. Beauregard. Although Tarrant was wounded at Manassas on 17 July 1861, the 5th Alabama was not a part of the larger battle on 21 July.
In the spring of 1862, the Warrior Guards was broken up, with approximately 50 soldiers being withdrawn back to Tuscaloosa as the nucleus of Fowler's Battery, under Captain W. H. Fowler. Tarrant was one of the last to sign up with Fowler, but had hopes to be able to transfer to Lumden's Battery where his father was a lieutenant.
According to the writer of the document, E.W. Tarrant was a lieutenant in Tarrant's Battery. He was in the battles of Farmington, Perryville, Murfreesboro, Resaca, Cassvill, New Hope, Kenesay, Atlanta, Nashville, and Fort Blakely. He was captured at Blakely and sent as a prisoner to Ship Island, where he sat out the rest of the war. He returned to Tuscaloosa in May 1865.
After the war, Tarrant moved to Texas and died on 19 November 1921 in Bryan, Texas.
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Preferred Citation
E. W. Tarrant letters, W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library, The University of Alabama.
- Acquisition Information:
Provenance
Gift of Anna Brown, 1994
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Source(s)
Confederate States of America. Army. Alabama Infantry Battalion, 5th. Company H. (local)
United States |x History |y Civil War, 1861-1865 (lcsh)
United States |x History |y Civil War, 1861-1865 |v Personal narratives, Confederate (lcsh)
War and Military (local)
Correspondence Box 4063 Folder 4
Letter from E. W. Tarrant, Aransas Pass, Texas, to Mrs. Brown, October 23, 1914 http://purl.lib.ua.edu/20652
Letter from E. W. Tarrant, Aransas Pass, Texas, to Mrs. Brown, October 27, 1914 http://purl.lib.ua.edu/20653