Name:  Echols, J. W.

Enlistment Information:  Private.

Branch:  Infantry

Regiment:  23rd Alabama Regiment

Comments:  Captured at Port Gibson and Grand Gulf in the engagement between the forces of Gen. U. S. Grant and Gen. ____Bowen, 1863/04/30 to 1863/05/01. Confined at Alton Illinois prison.

Source:  An Alabama newspaper clipping in Mrs. M. L. Kirkpatrick's scrapbook, Vol ii, page 97.