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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
This is a list of American Civil War units, consisting of those established as federally organized units as well as units raised by individual states and territories. Many states had soldiers and units fighting for both the United States ( Union Army ) and the Confederate States ( Confederate States Army ).
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]
The 1st Regiment Alabama Siege Artillery (African Descent) was an artillery regiment recruited from African-Americans that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War. The regiment was renamed the 6th US Colored Heavy Artillery. Under the leadership of Major Lionel Booth, the regiment fought at the Battle of Fort Pillow on April 12 ...
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) 15th (First) Battalion, Partisan Rangers; 51st Partisan Rangers; 53rd Partisan Rangers; 56th Partisan Rangers
U.S. War Department, The War of the Rebellion: a Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, U.S. Government Printing Office, 1880–1901. Stewart Sifakis. Compendium of the Confederate Armies: Alabama. Facts on File, NY 1992 ISBN 0-8160-2287-9
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.
List of Alabama Union Civil War units; 0–9. 1st Alabama Cavalry Regiment (Union) 1st Tennessee & Alabama Independent Vidette Cavalry