Edward McMorries was an original member of the “Perote Guards,” organized at Perote, Bullock (then Pike) county, in 1859, and composed mostly of students of the Perote Institute and of young business men of the town. The company left Perote Feb. 12, 1861, and the next day was mustered into the service of Alabama at Girard by a Captain Thom. They were later organized with the company into the First Regiment Alabama Volunteers at Barrancas, Fla., about a month later, which regiment, by consent of men and officers, was transferred to the Confederate service about April 1, 1861. Edward remained with the regiment until its surrender with the Army of Tennessee, April 27, 1865, at Greensboro, N. C.; participating in every battle and campaign of the regiment except the march from Lovejoy Station, Ga., to Tuscumbia, Ala., in the fall of 1864; and shared the fate of the regiment in military prison in 1862 at Camp Butler, near Springfield, Ill. Orig. Pub. 1902.

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