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The first seven became states in February and March 1861 upon agreeing to the Provisional Constitution of the Confederate States, and each joined the permanent Confederation of states between March 12 and April 22, 1861, upon ratifying the Constitution of the Confederate States, its permanent constitution (a separate table is included below ...
6th Alabama Cavalry flag. The flag of the 6th Alabama Cavalry was captured on March 25, 1865, by Private Thomas Riley, Co. D, 1st Louisiana Cavalry during an engagement which took place between Canoe Creek, Alabama and the Escambia River prior to the Battle of Fort Blakely. Private Riley was recommended for and received the Medal of Honor.
The Confederate States Congress was both the provisional and permanent legislative assembly of the Confederate States of America that existed from 1861 to 1865. Its actions were, for the most part, concerned with measures to establish a new national government for the Southern proto-state, and to prosecute a war that had to be sustained throughout the existence of the Confederacy.
Confederate election ballot, Virginia, November 6, 1861 Inauguration of Jefferson Davis at the Capitol in Montgomery, Alabama, 1861 On February 9, 1861, the provisional congress at Montgomery unanimously elected Jefferson Davis president and Alexander H. Stephens vice president.
The 3rd Alabama Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment that served in the Confederate Army during the American Civil War. The 3rd Alabama consisted mainly of men from the Alabama counties of Autauga , Coosa , Lowndes , Macon , Mobile and Montgomery .
Vol. 4, The Organized War to Victory 1864–1865. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1971. ISBN 1-56852-299-1. Sherman, William T., Memoirs of General W.T. Sherman. Library of America, 1990. ISBN 978-0940450653. The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies. Series 1, Part 1. Vol. 32.
B Drowned in the sinking of the Alabama 19 June 1864. [26] C Lt of CS Marines. Brother-in-law of CS President Jefferson Davis D Drowned in the sinking of the Alabama 19 June 1864. [27] E Killed in action in the sinking of the Alabama 19 June 1864 [26] Dr. David Herbert Llewellyn, a Briton and the ship's assistant surgeon, tended the wounded ...
Nathan Bedford Forrest (July 13, 1821 – October 29, 1877) was a Confederate States Army general during the American Civil War and later the first Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan from 1867 to 1869.