59th Alabama Infantry Regiment

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

59th Alabama Infantry Regiment
Flag of Alabama in 1861 (obverse and reverse)
ActiveNovember 25, 1863 to April 9, 1865
Country Confederate States of America
Allegiance Alabama
Branch Confederate States Army
TypeInfantry
EngagementsAmerican Civil War
Commanders
Notable
commanders		Col. Balling Hall III.
59th Alabama Infantry Regiment Flag
Col. Bolling Hall III

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.[1]

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, [2] but the regiment went on to surrendered 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.[3]

See also

References
  1. Stewart Sifakis. Compendium of the Confederate Armies: Alabama. New York: Facts on File, 1992, p. 131
  2. Glenn Dedmondt. The Flags of Civil War Alabama. Louisiana: Pelican Publishing, 2001, p. 108
  3. Fifty-Ninth Alabama Infantry Regiment, Alabama Department of Archives and History

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. ISBN 1-56554-840-X
  • Sifakis, Stewart. Compendium of the Confederate Armies: Alabama. New York: Facts on File, 1992 ISBN 0-8160-2287-9
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