Burke, Malcolm C.

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Burke, Malcolm C.
Captain of artillery 1862-4.(PGD magazine, Dec. 1904, p. 252). History of Alabama and Dictonary of Alabama Biography by Thomas McAdory Owen, p. 260: "He enlisted in the C. S. Army, December 1862, as a first lieutenant of artillery . . . assigned to duty at Fort Morgan. In 1863, he was assigned to the staff of Gen. Cantey as ordnance officer; went with Cantey's brigade to Johnston's army in northern Georgia and served through that campaign as first lieutenant of ordnance and brigade ordnance officer." While on leave in Tuscaloosa when Union troops invaded, he blew up the University of Alabama magazine.
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