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Photographer: Lee Hattabaugh
Taken: October 1, 2010
Caption: John Horace Forney
Additional Description: This marker, located on the second floor of the Alabama Department of Archives and History, reads: John Horace Forney
Colonel, Army of Alabama, 1861
Graduated U.S. Military Academy 1852; Resigned as First Lieutenant, 10th U.S. Infantry while on duty at West Point Military Academy, 23rd January, 1861; Appointed by Governor A.B. Moore, Colonel, First Regiment of Artillery, Army of Alabama, and ordered to command Alabama troops at Pensacola, February 14, 1861
Colonel 10th. Alabama Infantry, C.S.A.
Brigadier-General Major-General, C.S.A.
Erected by the General John H. Forney Historical Society February, 1958
Submitted: October 6, 2010, by Lee Hattabaugh of Capshaw, Alabama.
Database Locator Identification Number: p131116
File Size: 1.234 Megabytes

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