CONFEDERATE ALABAMA TROOPS
54th Regiment, Alabama Infantry
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54th Infantry Regiment [also called 50th Regiment] was organized in October, 1862, by
adding four Alabama companies of Walker's 5th Confederate Regiment to the 4th Confederate
Regiment. Its members were from Coffee, Macon, Choctaw, Limestone, Blount, Morgan, and De
Kalb counties. The unit served in General Tilghman's and Buford's Brigade, Department of
Mississippi and East Louisiana, and saw action at Fort Pemberton and Champion's Hill. After the siege of Jackson, it was assigned to A. Baker's,
Gibson's, and Brantley's Brigade, Army of Tennessee. The 54th participated in the Atlanta Campaign, moved to Mobile, then
returned to the army in North Carolina. During the Atlanta Campaign, May 7-June 2, it lost 12
killed and 49 wounded, and in the Battle of Atlanta more than half of the regiment was disabled.
Few were included in the surrender on April 25, 1865. The field officers were Colonels Alpheus
Baker and John A. Minter, and Lieutenant Colonel T.H.
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