Prattville Dragoonsとは 意味・読み方・使い方

The Prattville Dragoons were the first Company of men from the city of Prattville, and Autauga County, Alabama to form for service in the impending American Civil War of 1861-1865. The idea for forming a Company was originally suggested by Samuel D. Oliver, from nearby Robinson Springs, Alabama. The Company organized on December 8, 1860 in the west front parlor of the home of George L. Smith, (now the Prattaugian Museum.) The Company was formed as a part of the "Alabama Volunteer Corps" and in her book Hon. Daniel Pratt, Mrs. S.F.H. Tarrant states that "... Mr. Pratt presented to every member of this cavalry company a uniform, made of black broadcloth, trimmed with gold braid. No other company in the State had a uniform so handsome." Mrs. Tarrant was a daughter of Gardner Cole Hale, Daniel Pratt's supervisor of the mill which made the Confederate Uniforms. He was recruited in 1848 from Fall River, Ma. to supervise Daniel Pratt's mill, using the cotton gin to gin the cotton right there next to the cotton fields, rather than sending it back to the textile mills in Ma. His son-in-law, Tarrant, was a member of the Prattville Dragoons, and injured in battle. To the amazement of the African-American freedmen in the on-looking Yankee troops, his valet laid out his cape and carried his master off the battlefield. Boss Hale, as his father-in-law was called, left a son back in Medfield, Ma who served in the G.A.R., and was truly torn when the Civil War started 17 years after his emigration from Manfield, Ma., a war between brothers.