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61st Alabama Infantry Regiment

The 61st Alabama Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment of the Confederate States Army regiment during the American Civil War. The regiment was composed of nine companies from the southern parts of Alabama.


61st Alabama Infantry Regiment
Flag of Alabama in 1861 (obverse and reverse)
May 2, 1863 to April 9, 1865
Confederate States of America
Alabama
Confederate States Army
Infantry
American Civil War
Battle of the Wilderness
Battle of Spotsylvania
Battle of North Anna
Battle of Cold Harbor
Valley Campaigns of 1864
Battle of Monocacy
Third Battle of Winchester
Battle of Fisher's Hill
Battle of Cedar Creek
Siege of Petersburg
Battle of Fort Stedman
Battle of Appomattox Court House
Col. William G. Swanson

The 61st Alabama Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment of the Confederate States Army regiment during the American Civil War. The regiment was composed of nine companies from the southern parts of Alabama.

The regiment was formed at Pollard, Alabama on May 2, 1863 as a battalion with nine companies, and attached to the Department of the Gulf.

It was increased to a regiment on April 11, 1864 and shortly after sent to Virginia, where it was placed Battle's Brigade, Rodes Division, II Corps, Army of Northern Virginia. The transfer was a compensation for the 26th Alabama of that brigade, who had been sent on detached duty in February 1864 to convey prisoners to Andersonville, but did not return.

The regiment served with that brigade in the Army of Northern Virginia and the Valley District, until the surrender at Appomattox Courthouse on April 9, 1865.

  • List of Confederate units from Alabama

  • 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.

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