Not identified by state
Capt Brumlow
Green #
Blocksom #
Blocksom #
Keith
Buchanan
Maj McIntire #
Johnson #
Col Oliver #
Tanner #
Drane #
Wiggins #
Marchant #
Carr #
Clark
Grady #
Col Whitaker #
Townsend
Currie
Porter
John Lang #
Kolb #
John Rowe #
Richard Carlton #
John Kinnerly #
Rev Richard Ratcliff #
James Anderson
William Wise
Dr. Wesson
James Moore
McAlpine
Britt
Terrell #
Cullen #
John Buford #
Irving L. Miller
Note: Mrs Robert Norris mentioned
earlier was the dau of H.F. Steagall
of Tex; she m. Dr. Norris while in
Brazil. At age 18, she went down
with her family on the old blockade
runner "Wren" then called "Tartar"
The journey took from Apr 11 to
May 29, 1868.
The "Government House" was the reception center for new arrivals in Brazil; the proprieter was Lt Col James Broome, 14th Ala Inf Rgt of LaGrange, Ga; lost a leg at the Wilderness in 1864.
Charles Gunter, a man of means from Montgomery went down in early fall 1865. Col Gunter's tract was the largest enterd by any of the Americans, 600 square miles.
Dr. and Mrs Russell McCord were early settlers. The Dr., wife and three children resided north of Rio. He was Medical Officer for a very large plantation owned by a close relative of the Emperor. The family returned to America due to his failing health. Have no idea when he died but Mrs. McCord died at Selma, Ala in June 1930, at 96.
Rev Ballard S. Dunn: enlisted as Chaplain, Strawbridge's La Inf; AWOL after Jul 31, 1861; he formed a group to go down which was referred to as Dunn's Colony.
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