Billington Sanders Hurst
Billington S. Hurst was born in 1813 in Columbia Co., GA and married Elizabeth McCallum August 1, 1834. Their son, Hugh McCallum Hurst, born in 1834, joined the 19th Louisiana, CSA. Billington told Hugh that he was on the wrong side fighting for the wrong reasons. Although he survived the war, his experience cost him everything including his family and land. He had bought 360 acres of land in St. Clair Co. near present day Moody, and no record of any slaves has been found. At age 50, Billington rode 210 miles through Rebel lines from his home in St. Clair Co., AL to Camp Davies, MS to join the Union army. He was in USA Field Hospital at Rome, GA on July 12, 1864, with a broken collar bone caused when his horse was shot out from under him while charging Rebels. After the war, he returned home to Alabama, gathered his belongings and left, never to be spoken of again by his family. He remarried in 1867 in Jefferson Co., AL to a widow named Jane Crump.
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Service records compiled by Glenda Todd and used with her permission. This and other information about the history of the First and the men who fought with the unit
can be found in her book, First Alabama Cavalry, USA: Homage to Patriotism.
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