59th Alabama Infantry Regiment

The 59th Alabama Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment of the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War.

Organization The regiment was formed on November 25, 1863 at Charleston, Tennessee by consolidating the 2nd Infantry and the 4th Artillery Battalions, Hilliard's Alabama Legion.Stewart Sifakis. Compendium of the Confederate Armies: Alabama. New York: Facts on File, 1992, p. 131

Service The regiment served in Gracie's Alabama Brigade in the Department of East Tennessee participating in Longstreets Knoxville Campaign and later the Army of Northern Virginia in the Siege of Petersburg. During the latter campaign, the Regiment lost its battle flag during the Battle of Hatcher's Run in February 1865,Glenn Dedmondt. The Flags of Civil War Alabama. Louisiana: Pelican Publishing, 2001, p. 108 but the regiment went on to surrender at Appomattox Courthouse on April 9, 1865.

Staff officers Colonel Bolling Hall III. Lieut. Colonel John D. McLennan Lieut. Colonel Geo. W. Huguley Major Geo. W. Huguley Major Lewis H. Crumpler Lt. Crenshaw Hall, adjutant

Field officers John C. Hendrix S. E. A. Reaves John F. Wise CJohn E. Hall W. Dillard John Porter. E. L. McIntyre John A. Henley. W. H. Stuckey W. J. Peacock. L. H. Crumpier W.R. Davie James Lang R. Glasgow Louis Harrell H. H. Rutledge Zach. Daniel R. F. Manly W. D. Walden R. H. Gulledge.Fifty-Ninth Alabama Infantry Regiment, Alabama Department of Archives and History

See also List of Confederate units from Alabama

References

Further reading Burton, John Michael. Gracie's Alabama Volunteers: The History of the Fifty-Ninth Alabama Volunteer Regiment. Gretna, La.: Pelican Pub, 2003. Dedmondt, Glenn. The Flags of Civil War Alabama. Louisiana: Pelican Publishing, 2001. Sifakis, Stewart. Compendium of the Confederate Armies: Alabama. New York: Facts on File, 1992

External links 59th Regiment, Alabama Infantry, NPS