“HARRISON, EDMUND, planter, was born in Petersburg, Va., and died in Montgomery, in 1883; son of Bishop Edmund Harrison, of Petersburg, Va. Long prior to the War of Secession he removed to Alabama, engaging in thee cotton business in Mobile for several years. Locating in Montgomery he bought a large tract of land in Lowndes County where he planted on a big scale.
His first home in Montgomery, was the ‘First White House of the Confederacy,’ from which he removed his family to surrender it to the use of President Jefferson Davis. Later he occupied the Cowles mansion, recently dismantled by railroad encroachment.
He was a Democrat; a secessionist and gave liberally of his means to that cause; and an Episcopalian.
Married: (1) in Petersburg, Va., to Jane Stark, (2) to Elizabeth Ware, widow of Maj. Thomas Cowles, ans sister of Robert J. and James Anthony Ware…”
Source: History of Alabama and Dictionary of Alabama Biography, Vol. 3, by Thomas McAdory Owen and Marie Bankhead Owen, The S.J. Clark Publishing Co., Chicago, 1921, page 760
I work with Pioneer Cemeteries in the state of Iowa – I have located a confederate soldier in one of the cemeteries that I am working on. I need documentation showing that he was a Confederate soldier & was part of the Alabama Home Guard. I want to honor him with a military stone for his grave marker. Right now I just have cemetery paperwork. His name is Cyrus Phillips. Born in 1812 in Alabama but died in Iowa 10/17/1904 at the age of 92 years.
looking for info on Cowles Mansion