Rufus Blue "Peter / Pierre" Chestang (Chastang), Alabama "French Creole" Confederate Soldier

CHESTANG (Chastang), Rufus Blue "Peter / Pierre" - He was a Private in Company A, 2nd Battalion, Alabama Artillery. He enlisted in January 1862, at Demopolis, Alabama (born July 20th, 1842, died 1917). He surrendered with the forces of General Richard Taylor, on May 4th, 1865. He received a Confederate Pension after the War (#38399). He married Julia King Alvarez (born March 23rd, 1853, died August, 1917). He is buried at Old Whistler Cemetery, West Main Street, Whistler, Mobile County, Alabama.

He was the son of Augustus Chestang (born August 28th, 1807, died August 20th, 1861) and of Harriet Weathers (born June 14th, 1812, died March 25th, 1897). Augustus Chestang was the son of Pierre Joseph Chestang (born April 23rd, 1861, died 1832) and of Felicity "Fidelia" Rochon (born 1775?). Pierre Joseph Chestang was the son of Joseph Pierre Chestang (born 1736, died 1815) and of Marie Jeanne Gabriel De Montelimar.

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