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The 6th Alabama Cavalry Regiment was organized near Pine Level early in 1863, This regiment was part of a brigade commanded by Brigadier-General James Holt Clanton (1827–1871), a Montgomery attorney who had served as a U.S. Army private in the Mexican War during 1848.
14th Alabama Cavalry Battalion, Partisan Rangers; Malone's Brigade (Consolidated with the 19th Cavalry Battalion, folded into the 7th, then 9th, Alabama Cavalry, fought under Gen. Wheeler the entire war)
Rudolph Romeo Riddell (11 February 1847 – 8 September 1913) was a Lieutenant in the United States Army who was awarded the Medal of Honor for gallantry during the American Civil War. [1] On 6 April 1865, Riddell captured the flag of the 6th Alabama Cavalry of the Confederate Army. For this action, he was awarded the Medal of Honor on 10 May ...
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
3rd Alabama Reserves: Maj Solomon T. Strickland; 6th Alabama Cavalry: Ltc Washington T. Lary; 8th Alabama Cavalry: Ltc Thomas L. Faulkner; Keyser's detachment: Cpt Joseph C. Keyser; Armistead's Cavalry Brigade 8th Alabama Cavalry: Col Charles P. Ball; 16th Confederate Cavalry: Ltc Philip B. Spence; Lewis' Cavalry Battalion: Maj William V. Harrell
7th Confederate Cavalry (Claiborne's Regiment, Partisan Rangers; 7th Regiment, Confederate Partisan Rangers) 8th (Dearing's) Confederate Cavalry; 8th (Wade's) Confederate Cavalry (2nd Regiment, Mississippi and Alabama Cavalry) 10th Confederate Cavalry; 14th Confederate Cavalry; 15th Confederate Cavalry (1st Regiment, Alabama and Florida Cavalry)
(The 6th Cavalry Brigade's lineage is separate from the lineage of the 6th Cavalry Regiment.) [25] Later, in the fall of 1990, two subordinate units of the 6th Cavalry Brigade (Air Combat) deployed in Iraq during Operation Desert Shield/Desert Storm. One of those units was 2nd Battalion, 158th Aviation Regiment, a Chinook battalion from Fort Hood.
The 11th Alabama Volunteer Regiment in the Civil War. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, Inc., 2008. ISBN 978-0-7864-7158-4. Hoole, William Stanley. History of the Forty–sixth Alabama Regiment Volunteer Infantry, 1862–1865. University, Alabama: Confederate Publishing Company, 1985.