CONFEDERATE ALABAMA TROOPS
11th Regiment, Alabama Infantry
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11th Infantry Regiment was formed at Lynchburg, Virginia, in June, 1861, and totalled 972
men. They were from Marengo, Greene, Bibb, Washington, Perry, Clarke, Fayette, Pickens, and
Tuscaloosa counties. The unit was assigned to General Wilcox's, Perrin's, Sanders', and W.H.
Forney's Brigade, and served in many battles with the Army of Northern Virginia. It was active
from Seven Pines to Cold Harbor, took its place in the Petersburg trenches, then saw action in the
Appomattox Campaign. The
regiment contained 656 effectives in April, 1862, and reported 9 killed and 49 wounded at Seven
Pines and 338 casualties during the Seven Days' Battles. It had 39 men disabled in the Maryland
Campaign, 8 at Fredericksburg,
82 at Chancellorsville, and 75 at
Gettysburg. There were 14
officers and 176 men at the surrender on April 9, 1865. Its commanders were colonels Sydenham
Moore, John C.C. Sanders, and George E. Tayloe; Lieutenant Colonel S.F. Hale; and Majors
George Field, Richard J. Fletcher, and Archibald Gracie, Jr.
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