Spanish Consul in New Orleans, Louisiana during the Confederate Period 1861-1862.

1) Juan Callejon - He served as Consul of Spain, from 1855 to 1866 in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Montgomery, Alabama Police Department 1861-1865.

The Montgomery, Alabama Police Department was run during the War, by :

1) City Marshall - Isaac Maxwell (born 1823)
2) Deputy City Marshall - Thomas Reed

The Police Department consisted of between 12 and 16 Officer's and fluctuated during the war.

Joseph Pizzala, A Forgotten Italian Confederate from Montgomery, Alabama.

Joseph Pizzala was an Italian born business man in Montgomery, Alabama. He owned the very strangely named "The Rio Grande Restaurant", in 1861 and later in 1862 opened up a restaurant named "The French Restaurant". He enlisted in a local Militia Unit composed of Fire Fighter's known as the "FireMan Guards", which was only for local defense. He is listed as a Private and  as having shown up for all drill's armed with "one shotgun" and helped in the local defense of the City of Montgomery. He is found listed as Joseph Pizalla and Joseph Pizzala, his real first name was likely Guiseppe, but was Americanized to Joseph., in the surviving record's. // If anyone has any more info on Joseph, such as birth and death dates, wife's name, children ect. please send me an email.