CALL TO ARMS
from the DADEVILLE BANNER newspaper, August 2, 1861 , Dadeville, Tallapoosa County , Alabama

"I will raise a company of guerrilla volunteers to go into service."
James M. Russell
July 21, 1861

Service Record:

• Enlisted CSA February 18, 1862 at Louina ,Randolph County, Alabama
• Private in Company K, 14th Regiment, Alabama Infantry Unit called Louina Guards
• Wounded in the "Seven Days" engagements July 26-July 1, 1862 when the 14th Regiment, as part of Pryor's 5th Brigade, fought McClellan's Army of the Potomac away from Richmond.
• Subsequently, Prisoner-of-war, paroled May 22, 1865 at Talladega, Alabama

ABOUT THE 14th ALABAMA REGIMENT

Author: M. D. Hurst, 1863, History of the Fourteenth Regiment

"In presenting this work to the public, I deem it unnecessary to attempt an explanation of the causes of the war. Suffice it to say, that the thunder concealed in the cloud which, for over fifty years, darkened our political horizon, burst forth on Fort Sumter on the 11 day of April, 1861. This victory to the rebels hastened preparations in all the seceded States to meet the Union army on the border. When the first demand was made to volunteers, (so eager was the South to show the North and to the world, that they intended to be free,) that it was a race to Montgomery, then the Confederate Capitol, to be received first. About the 1st of August, 1861 the 14th Alabama Regiment rendezvoused at Auburn, Alabama and organized."

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Listed in his military record from C.S.A. General Hospital, Danville, Virginia Confederate Archives, Chapter 6, File 209, page 474 complaint 'vulnus sclopecticum' which means relating to a wound caused by a gunshot wound.