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Confederate Veteran Vol.XVII, July, 1909.
ALLEN B. CROSBY was a native of York
County, S.C., having been born at Blairsville in 1844. He died at
Russellville, Ark.,in Jan., 1909. He received his military training in
King's Mountain Military School at Yorkville, under that illustrious
educator, Col. Asbury Coward, and was a cadet of that institution at the
breaking out of the war, when he became a volunteer of Company B, 6th
South Carolina Infantry. As he was only 15 and half years old when
entering the service, he was discharged on account of his youth. He
returned home and remained a few months, then volunteered again,
entering Hampton's Cavalry of M.C. Butler's Brigade and served to the
close of the war. Upon his second enlistment his father sent a negro
servant with him, and faithful was Uncle Dan to his young master,
staying with him to the close...
Comrade CROSBY engaged in different
ocupations after the war, finally settling down on his farm near his old
home, leading a peaceful and prosperous life. He was married in 1873 to
Miss MARY B. McCULLOUGH of Ga.,d/o the late Judge William McCullough,
who survives him with 7 daughters, only two of whom are unmarried. He
was faithful to all trusts imposed in him, and honored and respected by
all who knew him.
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