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Captain Phillip A. Sternberg of Co. B, 1st Alabama Cavalry Regiment in the 1860s. 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 1st Alabama Cavalry Regiment was raised at Montgomery, Alabama, in November 1861. Its men were raised out of the following counties: Montgomery, Morgan, Dale, Tallapoosa, Calhoun, Pike, Autauga, Monroe, Butler, and Mobile. [1] Ordered to Tennessee, the regiment fought at the Battle of Shiloh in April 1862.
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
The vidette cavalry participated in the skirmish at Hunt's Mills near Larkinsville, Alabama. They were a part of an expedition to Lebanon between December 12 and 29. Another skirmish at Sand Mountain, Alabama in Jackson County (Sand Mountain is large and goes from northern Alabama into Georgia), December 26. They were mustered out on June 16, 1864.
Confederate cavalryman John [B] Dupont[e?] of Dartmouth, Alabama with muzzle-loading shotgun and a "Square D" handle Bowie knife'; he served in Lewis Battalion, Alabama Cavalry [1] 1st Alabama Cavalry Regiment; 2nd Alabama Cavalry Regiment; 3rd Alabama Cavalry Regiment. Prattville Dragoons (priorly Co. I, 7th Alabama Infantry)
The Battle of Camp Davies was a skirmish during the American Civil War on November 22, 1863, near a Union Army camp about six miles south of Corinth, Mississippi.A 70-man detachment of the 1st Regiment Alabama Cavalry (Union), commanded by Major Francis L. Cramer, drove off a 150-man Confederate force of the 16th Battalion, Mississippi Cavalry State Troops (sometimes referred to as 1st ...
Some Loyalists were drafted, and some were volunteers. White Unionists used the army as a tool to defeat the forces threatening to destroy the old Union, and their families and neighborhoods along with it. The most well-known unit composed entirely of Alabama Unionists was the 1st Alabama Cavalry Regiment (Union). Of the 2,678 white Alabamians ...
The Union force was a company under Captain Emil Adams from the 9th Illinois Mounted Infantry regiment. The Confederate force was the 1st Alabama Cavalry, under Lieutenant Colonel Moses W. Hannon. [2] On the morning of January 26, 1864, at around 4:00 a.m., ~700 Confederate cavalrymen attacked Athens, [3] which was being held by a Union force ...