Ok, lets see a reference for your creative history.
Good lord are you helpless? I stumbled across that item a good thirty to thirty five years back. I am assuming you are in Alabama, go to your library and ask for a book about the first Alabama cavalry and go from there. with a little luck it will turn up.
Did you ever read that east TN tried to secede from TN and join the union the way West VA did? How about this, every time the confederates tried to enter Cades Cove in what is now a national park, they where chased out by the locals at gun point.