A Monument
Recognizing the Service and Sacrafice
Captain James Hillman McMath
Solder in the Civil War
You are seeking a short two stage multi cache that beings at the monument placed for Captain James Hillman McMath.
Born in Georgia, James McMath moved to Tuscaloosa where he is noted as being a landowner in the 1840 census. He was noted as being a merchant and a farmer, owning 40 acres near the present day intersection of Highway 43 North and Highway 171.
James enlisted in the Confederate States Army on June 11, 1861 with the rank of Captain. His unit, Company G of the 11th Regiment of the Alabama Infantry was known at the Northport Rifles. This is the same unit that volunteer nurse Sallie Ann Swoope followed, a lady buried in the same cemetery where this monument stands. Just one year and 19 days after his enlistment, Captain McMath was killed on the battlefield.
Captain McMatth was killed in the Battle of Frazier's Field outside of Richmond, Virginia on June 30, 1862.His name appears on a report of casualties of the 4th Brigade, Longstreet's Division, in action before Richmond, Virginia.
Captain McMath’s family that he left behind included a son, William Marion McMath who also served in the Civil War as a private in Company B, 10th Alabama Infantry. He was captured in action near Richmond Virginia on June 30, 1862; the same day his father was killed on the same battlefield. He was in prison at Fort Columbus, New York Harbor, and later at Fort Delaware. He was exchanged at Aiken's Landing, Virginia on August 5, 1862.
Later in the war he was elected 2nd Lieutenant, and he surrendered at Appomattox in April 1865. He was present at battles at Yorktown, Seven Pines, Battle before Richmond, 2nd Manassas, Harpers Ferry, Sharpsburg, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Salem Church, Gettysburg, Bristow Station, Mine Run, Wilderness, Spotsylvania, Hanover Junction, Atley’s Station, Turkey Ridge, the siege of Petersburg and Richmond, Beans Station, the Crater, and Deep Bottom.
To locate the final¸ solve:
33 12.1AB
87 34.7CD
A = From his grave marker, the third digit in the year he moved to Tuscaloosa.
B = The fourth digit in the year of his birth.
C = The second digit in the date of his death.
D = The number of letters in the state where he was born.