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15th Alabama Infantry flag. The 15th Alabama Infantry Regiment was a Confederate volunteer infantry unit from the state of Alabama during the American Civil War.Recruited from six counties in the southeastern part of the state, it fought mostly with Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia, though it also saw brief service with Braxton Bragg and the Army of Tennessee in late 1863 before ...
1st Alabama Cavalry Regiment; 2nd Alabama Cavalry Regiment; 3rd Alabama Cavalry Regiment. Prattville Dragoons (priorly Co. I, 7th Alabama Infantry) 4th Alabama Cavalry Regiment (Forrest's) 5th Alabama Cavalry Regiment; 6th Alabama Cavalry Regiment; 7th Alabama Cavalry Regiment; 8th Alabama Cavalry Regiment; 8th Alabama Cavalry Regiment; 9th ...
Marbury: Confederate Memorial Park. The site operated as the Old Soldiers Home for Confederate Veterans from 1902 to 1939. In 1964, the Alabama State Legislature established the memorial park, which now hosts a museum and archives [89] Miami: Robert E. Lee Park; Mountain Creek: Confederate Memorial Park [90] and Alabama Confederate Soldiers Home
Bloody Banners and Barefoot Boys: A History of the 27th Regiment Alabama Infantry CSA : the Civil War memoirs and diary entries of J.P. Cannon, M.D.. Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania: Burd Street Press, 1997. Faust, James P. The Fighting Fifteenth Alabama Infantry: A Civil War History and Roster. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, 2015.
Confederate guerillas were made up of four types of fighters–the first half of these were under Confederate supervision, being either detached cavalry or enlisted men fighting close to home. The other units either fought disguised as noncombatants or were simply outlaws looking for blood-letting opportunities.
James Cantey in the Mexican–American War. James Cantey (December 30, 1818 – June 30, 1874) was a Confederate States Army brigadier general during the American Civil War.He was a lawyer, slave owner, state legislator in South Carolina and officer in the Mexican–American War, and a slave owner in Alabama both before and after the war.
– September 1, 1957) claimed to be one of the last living Confederate veterans of the American Civil War, having claimed to have served with the 4th Alabama Infantry from 1864 to 1865. His age is disputed and some records suggest he was born in 1859, not 1848.
List of Alabama Union Civil War units [1] Name Formation Date Disbandment Date Location of Formation Later names/ titles Cavalry 1st Alabama Cavalry Regiment: October 1862 20 October 1865 Huntsville, Alabama and Memphis, Tennessee: Infantry 1st Alabama Infantry Regiment (African Descent) 21 May 1863 31 December 1865 Corinth, Mississippi