Re: Lt. Col. ALEXANDER M. WALLACE, Sr., of Atlanta, GA
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In reply to:
Lt. Col. ALEXANDER M. WALLACE, Sr., of Atlanta, GA
Bobby J Chamberlain 7/21/05
Here is an update to my earlier tentative chronology for Lt. Col. Alexander M. Wallace, Sr.:
Lt. Col. Alexander McGhee Wallace, Sr.:Chronology
(1822-1901)
1822: Born, Maryville, Blount Co., TN(22 Mar.)
Late 1830s:Educated at Maryville College, Blount Co., TN
About 1841:Joined father’s general merchandise business, Blount Co., TN
1842: Married Octavia Adelaide Cox, Blount Co., TN(4 Oct.)
1843: Birth of son Charles
1846: Birth of son Geo. Alexander
1848: Birth of daughter Florence Augusta
1850: Birth of son Wm. Lafayette(20 Jan.; died 8 Dec.)
1850: Census & Slave Schedule, Blount Co., TN
1852: Death of wife Octavia Adelaide(15 May)
1855: Moved to Atlanta, GA;established wholesale commission house for western produce;later accepted a position as agent of the Bank of the State of GA
1855: Married Frances Garland (Fannie) Singleton(16 Apr.)
1856: Birth of daughter Mary Chamberlain (Minnie)
1856: Elected a member of the city council (made chairman of the finance committee);delegate to Southern Convention, Savannah, GA(8 Dec.)
1857: Birth of son John Singleton;the roof of his warehouse blown off by a violent wind, rain, and hail storm that ravaged Atlanta (mid-Apr.)
1859: Elected to captain newly organized Atlanta Grays (Fulton Grays) military company(4 Jul.);participated in committees attempting unsuccessfully to get city council to subscribe remaining funds for construction of a building for the female college (19 Jan.)
1859: Birth of daughter Martha Lucas (Mattie)(19 Dec.)
1860: Census, Fulton Co., GA(Atlanta);chaired meeting of Atlanta merchants on question of withdrawal of trade from certain Northern merchants(30 Jan.);listed as a registered guest on 13 Feb. at Brown’s Hotel, Macon, GA, in the “Macon Daily Telegraph” (14 Feb.);chaired informational meeting at city hall about Knights of the Golden Circle(20 Mar.);appointed to a committee to receive contributions to promote the organization’s objectives;chaired meeting called to form “Minute Men Association”(31 Oct.);signed resolutions passed by group;at a later meeting, addressed the delegates re secession(early Nov.);appointed to a committee on correspondence at another meeting(10 Nov.);made another secession speech at subsequent meeting(29 Nov.);moved for the appointment of a committee of safety;addressed torchlight procession in front of the Thompson Hotel(7 Dec.);appointed to a committee charged with drafting resolutions in response to action of VA
1861: Chosen to captain Atlanta Grays(3 Jan.);chaired meeting where a volunteer company was organized(25 Jan.);resigned Atlanta Grays commission to accept captaincy offered by Gov. Brown in Company L, 1st Regulars Regiment GA(1 Feb.);directed a seven-gun salute fired by the Atlanta Grays upon the arrival in the city of CSA Pres. Jefferson Davis(16 Feb.);member of the reception committee for Davis;marched with the Atlanta Grays and other military companies to the female college building(Washington’s birthday) and delivered a speech;shipped the first draft of men from Atlanta for the regular army of GA(24 Feb.);served as chief marshal escorting CSA Vice-Pres. Alexander H. Stephens into the city(12 Mar.)
1861: Birth of daughter Frances Alexander (Fannie)(16 Sep.)
1862: Promoted by Pres. Davis to lieutenant colonel in Company S, 36th Infantry Regiment GA(24 Apr.)
1863 Birth of daughter Margaret Jessie(25 Jul.);requested by council to examine country surrounding Atlanta for the safety of the city(22 May)
1863: Severely wounded & permanently disabled in fighting, Missionary Ridge, TN(25 Nov.)
1864: Resigned w/ disability discharge, returning home as invalid(28 Apr.)
1864: Outlawed, along with other prominent local citizens, by Gen. Sherman upon the latter’s entrance into Atlanta;residence on Ivy Street damaged by Sherman’s daily bombardment of the city(c22 Jul.)
1865: Birth of daughter Marian Cooper(16 Sep.);petitioned GA courts to recognize him as administrator of deceased father’s estate in TN, Atlanta, Fulton Co., GA (Sep.-Nov.; granted)
1866: Birth of daughter Anne Nicholson(25 Oct.)
1867: Lost appeal of judgment invalidating his claim of administratorship of late father’s estate(Dec.)
1868: Birth of son Alexander McGhee, Jr.(also died 1868)
1868: Elected by the trustees to the three-member board of managers of the Georgia State Lottery(served until 1876 when all were unceremoniously ousted)
1869: Death of son Capt. Charles Wallace, a newspaper editor, who was murdered by Dr. G.W. Darden over a personal dispute involving the denial of his application to join the local Masonic Lodge, Warrenton, Warren Co., GA(6 May;there were, however, allegations as well of his KKK affiliations and of his having murdered with impunity a local African-American citizen)
1870: Census, Fulton Co., GA(Atlanta);identified in an article in the “Atlanta Constitution” as one of the managers of the Orphan’s Free School(8 Apr.)
1870: Birth of son Alexander Waddell
1871: Letter published in the “Atlanta Constitution” by Ambrose R. Wright thanking him for corrections made earlier by him to Wright’s 1870 testimony about Capt. Charles Wallace’s slaying before a Congressional committee in Washington investigating KKK involvement in the 1869 wave of lawlessness in Warrenton, GA(14 Dec.)
1872: Chaired a meeting of his wing of the anti-Greeleyite Democrats, Atlanta, Fulton Co., GA(8 Aug.);with others, signed a letter to the editors of the “Atlanta Constitution” calling on them to name the member of the “straight” movement mentioned in an earlier article as allegedly having agreed to collaborate with pro-Grant forces in the state(20 Aug.);put up as a candidate for the GA state legislature by the “straights” of the Fulton Co. Democratic Party(late Sep.;but resoundingly beaten in the subsequent primary election)
1873: Listed in an ad appearing in the “Atlanta Constitution” as one of the managers of the Georgia Real Estate and Immigration Company(25 Oct.)
1874: Mentioned in a letter in the “Macon Weekly Telegraph” as being among the managers of the Orphan’s Free School(27 Jan.);listed in a notice published in the “Macon Weekly Telegraph” as one of the managers of the Georgia Real Estate and Immigration Company(17 Mar.)
1877: A registered guest at the Brown House, Macon, GA, according to a news item in the “Macon Telegraph” (8 Sep.)
1877-1879:Properties owned by him slated to be sold in county sheriff’s sales
1878: Published a notice in the “Atlanta Constitution” declaring himself uncommitted in the upcoming race for sheriff(12 Sep.);reported to be planning to run for sheriff of Fulton Co. in an article appearing in the “Atlanta Constitution”(14 Nov.);listed in a notice in the “Atlanta Constitution” as a candidate to be one of the assistants to J.A. Richardson, who is running for clerk of the Superior Court of Fulton Co.(4 Dec.);in a “card” appearing in the “Atlanta Constitution,” denounced Dr. J.S. Holliday, a rival candidate for clerk of the Superior Court, for having made slanderous remarks about him and for not having replied to his call for a retraction of such remarks(7 Dec.;said remarks, which alleged that Wallace “had unfortunately suffered strong drink to almost completely master him,” were defended as true by Holliday in a notice published in the same paper the following day)
1879: Hired by Walker & Whitner to canvass for them in Atlanta on behalf of insurance companies
1880: Census, Fulton Co., GA(Atlanta)
1882: Served as a pallbearer at the funeral of Mrs. L. J. Gartrell(mid-Oct.)
1885: Appointed surveyor of customs for the port of Atlanta by the President(31 Jul.;confirmation by U.S. Senate announced, 13 May)
1886: With others, escorted the body of Col Luther J. Glenn to the Atlanta train depot to be borne to his final resting place in Athens, GA(10 Jun.)
1887: Death of son Geo. Alexander
1889-90:Listed in Atlanta directories
1898: Lent a fancy sword that had been presented to him as the commander of the Atlanta Grays in 1864 to Grays’ Capt. W. C. Massey so that the latter could wear it in this year’s Memorial Day parade, Atlanta, GA(according to an article in the “Atlanta Constitution,” 4 May)
1900: Census, Fulton Co., GA;letter to him from son Sgt. Alex Waddell Wallace, who was at the time serving in the U.S. Army in the Philippines(published in the “Atlanta Constitution,” 30 Jan.)
1901: Died, Atlanta, Fulton Co., GA(14 Aug.; buried, Oakland Cem.)
(12/22/06)