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The Alabama Department of Archives and History is the official repository of archival records for the U.S. state of Alabama.Under the direction of Thomas M. Owen its founder, the agency received state funding by an act of the Alabama Legislature on February 27, 1901.
The Yellowhammer War: The Civil War and Reconstruction in Alabama (2014); Scholarly articles on specialty topics; excerpt; Rein, Christopher M.. Alabamians in Blue: Freedmen, Unionists, and the Civil War in the Cotton State (LSU Press, 2019). 312 pp. online review; Rigdon, John. A Guide to Alabama Civil War Research (2011) Severance, Ben H.
Consolidated Alabama Civil War Regiments; National Park Service Civil War Soldiers and Sailors Website; The Civil War Archive, Union Regimental Index: Alabama; Alabama Dept. of Archives and History Civil War Regimental History documents
Collection of the records began in 1864; no special attention was paid to Confederate records until just after the capture of Richmond, Virginia, in 1865, when with the help of Confederate Gen. Samuel Cooper, Union Army Chief of Staff Maj. Gen. Henry W. Halleck began the task of collecting and preserving such archives of the Confederacy as had survived the war.
Alabama Coat of Arms (1923) and the State Seal include the Confederate Battle Flag. Alabama State Flag (1895) The Alabama Department of Archives and History found in 1915 that the flag was meant to "preserve in permanent form some of the more distinctive features of the Confederate battle flag, particularly the St. Andrew's cross."
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 ...