Historical Sketch & Roster of the Alabama 44th Infantry Regiment PDF Download

Author: John C. Rigdon
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781514838334
Category : Alabama
Languages : en
Pages : 176

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The Alabama 44th Infantry Regiment was organized at Selma, May 16, 1862, and reached Richmond the 1st of July. Attached to A. R. Wright's brigade, (Third, Twenty-second, and Forty-eighth Georgia, ) R. H. Anderson's division, the regiment was a very severe sufferer by disease, and went into the second battle of Manassas with 130 rank and file. It lost 5 killed and 22 wounded there, then took 113 rank and file into the battle, and lost 14 killed and 65 wounded of that number. The regiment wintered on the Rappahannock, and was placed in the brigade of Gen. Law of Macon--with the Fourth, Fifteenth, Forty-seventh, and Forty-eighth Alabama--Hood's division, Longstreet's corps. At Fredericksburg the regiment was under fire, but with light loss, and in the spring was at the battle of Suffolk with the same fortune. The regiment moved into Pennsylvania, and in the terrible assault at Gettysburg, lost heavily, but captured the only two guns of the enemy's that were brought off the field by the Confederates. Transferred, a few weeks later, with the corps, to the West, the Forty-fourth lost largely in casualties at Chickamauga. It then shared the privations of the east Tennessee campaign, losing lightly at Lookout Valley, Knoxville, and Dandridge. The corps reached the Army of Northern Virginia in time to take part at the Wilderness and Spottsylvania, where the Forty-fourth's casualties were numerous. Its losses were light at Hanover Junction, the second Cold Harbor, and Bermuda Hundreds. Around Petersburg, and in the trenches of that city, the Forty-fourth was constantly engaged. It left there with the remnant of the army, and folded its colors at Appomattox, under Col. Jones. The Forty-fourth had 1094 names on its roll, of whom about 160 perished in battle, 200 died in the service, and 142 were discharged or transferred. Companies Of The AL 44th Infantry Regiment Co. A - Lowndes and Dallas - Richard J. Dudley; resigned. D. A. Bozeman; killed at Spottsylvania. D. B. Edwards. Co. B - Bibb -- John A. Jones promoted. L. D. Brown; resigned. Joab Goodson; died in the service. James M. Hill. Co. C - Wilcox.-- John W. Purifoy; wounded at Sharpsburg; retired. Robert Powers. Co. D - Shelby -- Wm. T. King; killed at second Manassas. T. L. Morrow; resigned. Jonas Oakes. Co. E - Shelby -- George W. Carey; promoted. John H. Neilson; killed at Spottsylvania. T. C. Ferguson. Co. F - Bibb -- Henley G. Sneed; resigned. Wm. N. Greene; wounded at Chickamauga; retired. John N. Fondreu. Co. G - Dallas and Bibb -- Thomas C. Daniel; killed; at second Manassas. Bluford Brown; resigned. Wm. T. Dunklin; killed at Gettysburg. W. P. Becker. Co. H - Bibb -- F. M. Goode; resigned. Joseph F. Johnston; wounded twice, once at Chickamauga. Co. I - Randolph -- A. W. Denman; promoted. John T. Tweedle. Co. K - Calhoun -- Patrick P. Riddle; died in the service. John M. Teague; killed at Gettysburg. John D. Adrian; wounded at the Wilderness; killed at Chaffin's Bluff. M. H. Fowler.