The Selma Rangers Come Home

From "Selma; Her Institutions, and Her Men" by John Hardy, pub. 1879:

The company was in service about eight weeks, and was honorably discharged for service at Montgomery.

The 4th of July 1836, was the day agreed upon to give a dinner and ball to the Selma Volunteers, and great were the preparations commenced at once. The surrounding country was in a flourishing condition, the greatest abundance of every thing necessary for a grand barbeque were readily given, and when the day arrived hundreds of slaughtered animals, bread, cake, wine, and every other luxury, was to be seen on the ground, and on a around the long pits, which were located in a beautiful grove near the now residence of Mrs. Tredwell. Col. John W. Lapsley was the orator of the day, and Thomas W. Cash, Esq., the reader of the Declaration of Independence. The Cumberland Presbyterian Church building had been selected in which to read thee Declaration and the delivery of the Oration. The building was so small that a comparative small portion of the immense assembly could gain admittance.

At the dinner, good feeling prevailed; thirteen regular toast were given in honor of the thirteen original States, and numerous volunteer toast; among thus given volunteer toasts were: Gen. John Brantly. Wm. Waddill, jr., R. R. Minter, J. W Lapsley, T. S. Fellows, Maj. Porter (a revolutionary soldier), Maj. G. A. Chandler, Dr. W. Randall, Dr. J. R. Dickinson, W. W. Wallis, Zack Pinson, S. J. Elliot, A. M. Goodwin, James Hendricks, Dr. J. A. Jackson, John W. Jones, Dr T. Wilson, E. J. Hubbell, Charles P. Evans, Randall Duckworth, Maj. John Tipton, Dr. U. Grigsby, Col. E. W. Saunders, Col. V. H. Gardner, Ma. T. J. Frow, Thomas L. Craig, H. Traun, W. H. Fellows, A. J. King, W. D. Gorman, T. Leonard, H. Walker, Thomas L. Waddill, Sam. P. Pickens.

At night, a grand ball was given, and the Assembly Rooms at Bogle’s hotel were overflowing with the beauty of the town and surrounding country, and good feeling generally prevailed. This grand ball was under the direction of John Tipton, Geo. C. Phillips, P. A. Berry, James Ferguson, M. G. Woods, Thomas H. Cowan, T. J. Frow, as the managers.

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