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Alabama was central to the Civil War, with the secession convention at Montgomery, the birthplace of the Confederacy, inviting other slaveholding states to form a southern republic, during January–March 1861, and to develop new state constitutions.
The Battle of Selma was fought on April 2, 1865 in Dallas County, Alabama during the American Civil War.It was part of the Union campaign through Alabama and Georgia, known as Wilson's Raid, in the final full month of the Civil War.
The Battle of Cherbourg, or sometimes the Battle off Cherbourg or the Sinking of CSS Alabama, was a single-ship action fought during the American Civil War between the United States Navy warship, USS Kearsarge, and the Confederate States Navy warship, CSS Alabama, on June 19, 1864, off Cherbourg, France.
The 1st Alabama Cavalry Regiment was a cavalry regiment recruited from Southern Unionists that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War. It was the only predominantly-white Union regiment from Alabama. Of the 2,678 white Alabamians who enlisted in the Union Army, 2,066 served in the 1st Alabama Cavalry. [1]
Map of Athens Battlefield core and study areas by the American Battlefield Protection Program.. The Battle of Sulphur Creek Trestle, also known as the Battle of Athens, was fought near Athens, Alabama (Limestone County, Alabama), from September 23 to 25, 1864 as part of the American Civil War.
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: 55th United States Colored Infantry Regiment (from 11 March 1864) [2] 2nd Alabama Infantry Regiment (African Descent) 20 November 1863 ...
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 ...
The Battle of Blakeley was the final major battle of the Civil War, with surrender just hours after Grant had accepted the surrender of Lee at Appomattox in the afternoon of April 9, 1865. [3] Mobile, Alabama, was the last major Confederate port to be captured by Union forces, on April 12, 1865. [4]