CONFEDERATE ALABAMA TROOPS
19th Regiment, Alabama Infantry
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19th Infantry Regiment, organized at Huntsville, Alabama, in August, 1861, contained men
from Blount, Cherokee, Pickens, Coosa, Chilton, and Jefferson counties. After serving at Mobile
the unit was ordered to Corinth and later fought at Shiloh under J.K. Jackson. Transferred to
General Gardner's command, it was active in the Kentucky Campaign, then was brigaded under
Generals Deas, G.D. Johnston, and Pettus, Army of Tennessee. The 19th participated in many
conflicts from Murfreesboro to
Atlanta, was with Hood in
Tennessee, and fought at Bentonville, North Carolina. It lost fifty-four percent of the 650 engaged at Shiloh, and reported 151 killed and wounded at Murfreesboro
and 192 at Chickamauga. In
December, 1863, the regiment contained 347 men and 228 arms. It was badly cut up in the
battles around Atlanta and many were captured at Franklin. Only 76 men were present when it
surrendered. The unit was commanded by Colonels Samuel K. McSpadden and Joseph Wheeler,
Lieutenant Colonels George R. Kimbrough and Edward D. Tracy, and Majors Solomon Palmer
and James H. Savage.
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