Notes for Joseph Henry RAILEY

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Notes for Joseph Henry RAILEY

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Joseph Henry Railey, 1830-1865 South Carolina, place unknown. Joseph married Ellin (Ellinder?) UNKNOWN. He fought in the Civil War and was wounded and died, place unknown. Little else is known about Joseph Henry Railey.

CONFEDERATE ALABAMA TROOPS
Raley, Henry
Confederate
Infantry
39th Regiment, Alabama Infantry, Company D.

Raley, Henry
Confederate
Artillery
2nd Battalion, Alabama Light Artillery
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2nd Battalion, Alabama Light Artillery
2nd Artillery Battalion was formed at Mobile, Alabama, in Janaury, 1862, with five companies; later reduced to three. It was attached to the Department of the Gulf, and after January, 1864, the Department of Alabama, Mississippi, and East Louisiana. The unit was stationed at or near Mobile throughout the war, and participated in the conflicts at Forts Gaines and Morgan, Spanish Fort, and Fort Blakely. With 64 officers and men it surrendered on May 4, 1865. Lieutenant Colonel James H. Hallonquist was in command.

39th Regiment, Alabama Infantry
39th Infantry Regiment was formed in May, 1862, at Opelika, Alabama. Its members were drawn from Pike, Barbour, Henry, Walker, and Russell counties. Immediately sent north, it was assigned to General Gardner's Brigade but saw little action during the Kentucky Campaign. The regiment was later under the command of Generals Deas, G.D. Johnston, and Brantley. It was prominent in the arduous campaigns of the Army of Tennessee from Murfreesboro to Atlanta, moved with Hood into Tennessee, and fought its last battle at Bentonville. This unit reported 95 casualties at Murfreesboro and lost thirty-one percent of the 310 engaged at Chickamauga. During December, 1863, it totalled 337 men and 219 arms. On April 26, 1865, less than 90 officers and men surrendered. The unit was commanded by Colonels Whitfield Clark, H.D. Clayton, and William C. Clifton; Lieutenant Colonels James T. Flewellen and Lamuel Hargrove; and Majors Colin McSwean and Drewry H. Smith.

Railey Name Orgins:
There are two main Raley/Railey/Raileigh/Rawley families. The name means someone from either the village of Rayleigh in Essex or from the village of Rawleigh in Devon. When surnames were given in the twelfth century many were village names, indicating the owner of the name had come from that village (and lived in another one now). Rayleigh in Essex is pronounced Ray-lee and most of these people actually live in Yorkshire, Rawleigh in Deveon is pronounced Roar-lee, and this is the family that includes Sir Walter Raleigh.The village name may mean reed meadow or red meadow.The surname has been confused with the names Rowley (named after the village of Rowley Regis in Staffordshire,
the Irish name Riley and the provencale name Ralli. The word 'ley' means meadow or solid ground. The 'Ra' comes from Rae which I understand was a marshland. Hence "Raleys" lived on high land in a marshy area. There may be as many as thirty-eight different variations of the name. Most of them in the East Riding of Yorkshire. Raley comes from two anglosaxon words, rada, which means "red" and lea, meaning a "lea" or "meadow." Lea was once spelled leigh, so the old form of Raley was Raleigh. So Raley means a person from a red lea, or red meadow. The name seems to have originated in England in Devonshire, that is, Southwest England. Raley's have been found going back to about 1100 A.D.

Land Lottery Grants Made to Veterans of the Revolutionary War by the State of Georgia
Raley, Henry (residence: Warren) 1827 49 11 Lee Reverted
185 7 Troup 2/26/1830

Georgia Pioneers vol1
Twiggs RAILEY, Charlie R.S. Oglethorpe
(Warren, County) RALEY, Henry R.S.

Houston Co, GA MARRIAGES From 1825 to 1850 , Page 13
A. R. |08/07/1844 | |RALEY, Henry L. | marr. |GLOVER, Mary Ann

Henry Raley found in:
Early Georgia Settlers, 1700s-1800s
Listed in: The Reconstructed 1790 Census of Georgia
Page number: 177

Henry Raley found in:
Land Records: AL, AR, FL, LA, MI, MN, OH, WI, 1790-1907
Document number: 25440 Description number: 3
Number of acres: 319.7400 Accession number: AL2520__.130
Patentee Surname: Raley Patentee given name: Henry
State name: Alabama
Volume: 2520 Page number: 130
Land office: Elba Aliquot part reference: W½SW
Section number: 11
Township: 6 North Range: 27 East
Meridian or special survey area: St. Stephens Meridian
Title transfer authority: Sale-Cash Entries
Combined signature date: May 1, 1861
Multiple patentees: N Multiple warrantees: N
Signature: Y Canceled document: N Subsurface rights reserved: N
Metes and bounds: N Fractional section: N Data Introduction

Henry Raley found in:
Land Records: AL, AR, FL, LA, MI, MN, OH, WI, 1790-1907
Document number: 25440 Description number: 2
Number of acres: 0.0000 Accession number: AL2520__.130
Patentee Surname: Raley Patentee given name: Henry
State name: Alabama
Volume: 2520 Page number: 130
Land office: Elba Aliquot part reference: W½NW
Section number: 11
Township: 6 North Range: 27 East
Meridian or special survey area: St. Stephens Meridian
Title transfer authority: Sale-Cash Entries
Combined signature date: May 1, 1861
Multiple patentees: N Multiple warrantees: N
Signature: Y Canceled document: N Subsurface rights reserved: N
Metes and bounds: N Fractional section: N
Data Introduction

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