CONFEDERATE ALABAMA TROOPS
24th Regiment, Alabama Infantry
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24th Infantry Regiment was organized at Mobile, Alabama, in August, 1861. Its members
were recruited in the counties of Mobile, Shelby, Pickens, Clarke, and Talladega. For a time the
unit served in the Army of Mobile, then shared in the Kentucky Campaign, but ws not actively
engaged. Assigned to General Manugault's Brigade, it participated in the campaigns of the Army
of Tennessee from Murfreesboro
to Atlanta, was part of Hood's
expedition into Tennessee, and fought in the Battle of Bentonville. During February, 1862, this
regiment had 680 effectives, sustained 118 casualties at Murfreesboro, and lost thirty percent of
the 381 at Chickamauga. In
December, 1863, it contained 278 men and 184 arms, and surrendered in April, 1865, about 125
strong. The field officers were Colonels William A. Buck and Newton N. Davis, Lieutenant
Colonels William B. Dennett and Benjamin F. Sawyer, and Major Junius J. Pierce.
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