I98712: GRUFFUDD ap MAREDUDD (ABT 1093

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"The Edmund Winchester Rucker Chapter of the Alabama Division of the United Daughters of the Confederacy was organized on May 23, 1987, and received its Charter on August 27, 1987, with sixteen charter members." http://mywebpages.comcast.net/alaudc/rucker.html.

General Edmund W. Rucker commanded a brigade during the War Between the States but his commission as Brigadier General did not reach him before the war was over. He is shown with the insignia of a Confederate full colonel – three stars in a row on the collar. The medal shows him as a member of “Forrest Cavalry Corps” a prestigious group who served under legendary General Nathan Bedford Forrest.
Originally from Tennessee, Rucker served under Forrest during several engagements of the war, including the brilliant command of a brigade during the famous battle of Brice’s Crossroads in Northern Mississippi. In the battle of Nashville, late in the war, General Rucker lost his left arm. After the War was over, General Rucker worked with General Forrest on a railroad project in Alabama. Over the succeeding years, General Rucker settled in the new and bustling city of Birmingham and became one of the pioneer industrial leaders of the “Magic City” as the burgeoning town was called in recognition of its rapid growth during the last half of the nineteenth century. In January 1942, construction had just begun on a camp in southeast Alabama when the War Department announced it would be named “Camp Rucker” for Brigadier General Edmund W. Rucker."

"This Tennessean led his unit, attached to Forrest's cavalry corps, at the Chickamauga campaign. He was then sent to command a brigade of cavalry in Chalmer's division, where he saw fighting at Brice's Crossroads and Tupelo. He would be shot and captured at the battle of Nashville. After the war he would serve as president of the Salem, Marion, & Memphis railroad (working with Forrest), and as president of a steel company. Name him. You have until Monday.

The officer in question was EDMUND WINCHESTER RUCKER. Rucker, born in 1834, was a self taught surveyor and engineer. He started his Confederate service in May 1861 as a private in a company of Sappers and Miners, engineers, eventually becoming a 2nd lieutenant. He was next assigned to command a group of Illinoisians who joined the Confederacy and formed a heavy artillery unit, Stewart's Invincibles. The unit became part of Company E of the 1st Tennessee Heavy artillery wth Rucker named captain on 10 May 1862. He commanded the company at Island #10 and escaped with part of his command when the island fell. He was sent to Fort Pillow and remained there until he was transferred to the cavalry in October 1862 as a major in the 16th Tennessee cavalry battalion. He was assigned to rounding up conscripts. He was promoted to colonel in February 1863 and took part in John Pegram's Kentucky raid. Rucker was assigned command of Rucker's Legion, an organization comprised of the 12th and 16th cavalry battalions on 1 June 1863. The Legion fought at Chickamauga. In February 1864 Rucker was transferred to Mississippi and given command of the 6th brigade in Abraham Buford's division which he led at Brice's Crossroads and Tupelo until he was wounded. Rucker returned to duty on 14 July 1864 in command of the 6th brigade of James Chalmer's division in Forrest's Cavalry Corps. The brigade was assigned to the Army of Tennessee and saw action at Nashville where Rucker lost his left arm. In February 1865 Forrest's cavalry was reorganized and Rucker lost his brigade on 13 February 1865. He was commissioned a brigadier general but the commission did not arrive before the war ended. Following the war Rucker worked with Forrest on a railroad project in Alabama. Rucker then settled in Birmingham, Alabama where he became a leader in industry and in Confederate veteran affairs. He died in 1924." http://www.civilwarinteractive.com/trivia102002.htm.

Under direction of the Army Engineer Corps construction work was started in January 1942 on more than 4,600 acres of the cantonment site and the 1,500 buildings required for this future camp. An army of 12,000 civilian workers, skilled and unskilled help, tackled the job of building Camp Rucker. By May 1, the majority of these workers had left the reservation, the job finished except for final checking of details of work inevitably left after construction of a project estimated to have cost in excess of $25,000,000. Brigadier General Frederick W. Manley assumed command of Camp Rucker on May 1, 1942, and ordered it activated as of that date.

Camp Rucker takes its name from Col. Edmund W. Rucker, an outstanding officer of the Civil War. Born in Tennessee in 1835, of Dutch and English descent, he attended school in his native state and later engaged in civil engineering in the city of Memphis.

Col. Rucker`s military career came to an end when, in December 1864, severely wounded and having lost his left arm, he was taken prisoner. http://members.aol.com/FABn284/History.html.

Camp Rucker and Daleville, AL History of Daleville http://www.daleville.org/chamber/history.htm.

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GRUFFUDD ap MAREDUDD

ABT 1093 - 1128

ID Number: I98712

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ABT 1763 - 26 Dec 1850

ID Number: I27958

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Catherine CONERLY

13 Mar 1826 - 15 Aug 1832

ID Number: I35195

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Mary Texas DOWNING

11 Jun 1881 - 28 Oct 1952

ID Number: I75937

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Infant Son DUNNAM

1786 - 1786

ID Number: I70570

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Janet GUERRANT

John JENNINGS

ABT 1614 - ____

ID Number: I83174

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Jone PHIPPEN

____ - 1650

ID Number: I102444

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Betsy ROBINS

ABT 1800 - ____

ID Number: I42108

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Gen. Edmund Winchester RUCKER C.S.A.

22 Jul 1835 - 13 Apr 1924

ID Number: I60399

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Mary Joann SMITH

1856 - ____

ID Number: I79258

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ROBERT de SUTTON of Warsop

1240 - 8 Mar 1273

ID Number: I22591

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George TAYLOR

1835 - 3 Oct 1841

ID Number: I20221

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