| Birth | Sep 14, 1844 | Franklin, Heard Co., GA, USA, age 15 in 1860 census; age 16 in 1861 enlistment; age 35 in 1880 census; age 64 in 1910 census |
| Mil. Enls | Jan 2, 1861 | Newton, Dale Co., AL, USA, Comp. H., 15 th Alabama, infantry; Remarks: Rank: Private. Wounded at 2nd Manassas and again at Chickamauga. Captured at Raccoon Mountain, taken to Camp Morton, Indiana, where paroled December 1864. Authority: Personal Statement Census Tax Assessor Montgomery County 1907 |
| Milit-End | May 26, 1865 | Montgomery, AL, USA, Oath of Allegiance is dated |
| 1880 Census | 1880 | Union Springs, Bullock Co., IL, USA, age 35, single, a merchant, with 2 servants |
| 1910 Census | 1910 | Walkers, Montgomery Co., AL, USA, age 64, single, farmer; and nephew, W.E. Pierce, 62, AL, and M. A. Pierce, 52, AL |
| Author | 1912 | AL, USA, Two boys in the Civil War and after
(Confederate States of America. Army. Alabama Infantry Regiment, l5th (Subject) : original published: Montgomery : Paragon Press, 1912; 242 p.)
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Includes description of infantry events in the following locations: Yorktown, Va; Seven Pines, Va; Malvern Hill, Va; 2nd Manassas, Va; Fredericksburg, Va; Gettysburg, Pa; Chickamauga, Ga; Spotsylvania, Va; Cold Harbor, Va; Petersburg Campaign; Appomattox Campaign.
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Members of the regiment were assembled together from the following counties: Barbour, Russell, Dale, Henry, Macon, and Pike.
[ 1 ] Houghton, M. B. (Mitchell Bennett), 1845?- From the beginning until now : [essays] / M.B. Houghton. [Montgomery, Ala. : The Author, 1914?]
Location: OFFSITE Call Number: 973.709 H814
[ 2 ] Houghton, M. B. (Mitchell Bennett), 1845?- Two boys in the civil war and after [by] W.R. Houghton [and] M. B. Houghton. Montgomery, Ala., Paragon Press, 1912.
Location: OFFSITE Call Number: 973.7 H814
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| Author | 1914 | From The Beginning Until Now: in the beginning, two great contending forces, sectional strife and war, the federal apollyon, an invisible triumphant army, romance and reality, along life’s highway, from Dan to Beersheba.
From the Beginning Until Now appears to have been self-published in 1914. It is not so much a historical account of the war as it is retrospective reflections on the the conflict and its aftermath from a Confederate perspective. Many passages compare the tragedies of the war with biblical passages.
Houghton offers his justification for the Confederacy's right to succeed from the Union, defends the treatment of Negros in the pre-war south, and recounts the formation of the KKK. Some excerpts:
The Anglo-Saxon people of the Southern States within a few generations elevated the heathen, savage black people, the lowest and most degraded race of mankind to a pinnacle higher in the scale of civilization than did the Egyptians with all their learning and art uplift the Israelites in four hundred years of vassalage. (pp. 28-29)
The tragic and untimely death of President Lincoln was lamented by the Confederates as well as by the Northern people. The Southern people detest assassins and cowards even when they strike down their avowed enemy and greatest persecutor.
The conclusion has prevailed, that had Mr. Lincoln's life been spared, the lot of the defeated Confederates would have been more tolerable. There is nothing in his conduct of the war, or in his expressed animus toward the Southern people to justify such a verdict. (p. 64)
In June, 1866, in the little town of Pulaski, in Southern Tennessee, near the Alabama line, a few young men, finding time hanging heavily on their hands, met in a law office on night and concluded to organize a society of some kind; some one suggested that they call it 'Kukloid,' from the Greek work kuklos, meaning a circle, and some other person present said, 'Call it Ku Klux'; the work 'Klan' was then added to complete the alliteration. In order to arouse public curiosity and surround the organization with an atmosphere of mystery, various devices were resorted to; the oath bound the member to absolute secrecy in regard to everything pertaining to the order, and he was prohibited from disclosing the fact that he was a Ku Klux, or giving the name of any other member, or soliciting membership; each member was required to appear at the meetings arrayed in a long robe with a white mask and very tall hat made of white pasteboard; the meetings were held at night in the cellar of a deserted brick house standing on a hill near the town. The only business transacted at the meetings was the initiation of new members with the most fantastic of ceremonies, and the only purpose of the order was to mystify outsiders and have fun. (pp. 126-127)
This book has 276 numbered pages and a number of illustrations. It is in very good condition, with all pages and illustrations intact. There are no markings in the book. The binding is tight, with just a few loose pages near the front of the book. The cover is bright, but the spine is slightly worn and darkened. |
| 1920 Census | 1920 | Dist 134, Walkers, Montgomery Co., AL, USA, age 75, own; 2 servants |
| Death | Nov 4, 1925 | AL, USA |
| Burial | | Greenwood Serenity Memorial Gardens, Montgomery, AL, USA |
Marcus Lafayette Haughton
Bina Fairbank
Eli Houghton