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was often about it when his father conducted it during the war.
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RAPHAEL SEMMES IN 1861.
Fortunately for her, Mobile was not the immediate seat of any part of that great civil conflict; but she was thoroughly loyal to the Confederate cause, and furnished most of her best blood to its support. The Mobile Cadets were tendered by Captain Sands immediately on receipt of President Davis's call for volunteers, and from there went out, among others, the 3d, 8th, 21st and 24th Alabama regiments, the two companies of State Artillery and Charpentier's and Watters's Batteries. There are unmarked graves of Mobile boys from Pennsylvania to Texas.
