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Increasing the 9th Battalion Alabama Infantry to ten companies by addition of Capt. John A. Avirett's "St. Clair Sharpshooters" and Capt. Samuel D. Oliver's Co. "E", 2nd Battalion Georgia Sharpshooters, the Confederate States War Department announced the 58th Alabama Infantry Regiment on August 13, 1863 (S.O. 192, A.&
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
The 56th Alabama Cavalry was a Confederate Partisan Ranger cavalry regiment from Alabama.Initially organized as 2 separate Partisan Ranger battalions, the 56th Regiment was created in the summer of 1863 and took part in several campaigns of the Western Theater of the American Civil War before surrendering in the spring of 1865.
On the afternoon of 23 September, Union forces engaged Confederate forces five miles south of Athens, near Tanner, where they were destroying a railroad trestle. Forrest's Confederate forces moved towards Athens. That evening the Confederate forces gained control of the town, and the Union forces had retreated within Fort Henderson.
It was part of the garrison of Mobile, Alabama between August 1862 and April 1863, when it was sent to Tullahoma to join the Army of Tennessee. [1] At Tullahoma, the 36th Alabama was brigaded under Henry DeLamar Clayton together with the 32nd and 58th Consolidated, 18th, and 38th Alabama Infantry Regiments.
26th Alabama Infantry flag. The 26th Alabama Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment of the Confederate States Army regiment during the American Civil War. The regiment was composed of ten companies that came from various counties across Alabama. It is one of the few regiments that served both in the Army of Northern Virginia and Army of ...
1st Lt. John F. Gaines, Montgomery Mounted Rifles, Co. B, 1st Alabama Cavalry; later Lt. Col. of the 53rd Alabama Cavalry Partisan Rangers. The 1st Alabama Cavalry Regiment served in the Confederate Army during the American Civil War.
Gracie's Alabama Volunteers: The History of the Fifty-Ninth Alabama Volunteer Regiment. Gretna, La.: Pelican Pub, 2003. Dedmondt, Glenn. The Flags of Civil War Alabama. Louisiana: Pelican Publishing, 2001. ISBN 1-56554-840-X; Sifakis, Stewart. Compendium of the Confederate Armies: Alabama. New York: Facts on File, 1992 ISBN 0-8160-2287-9