CONFEDERATE ALABAMA TROOPS
55th Regiment, Alabama Infantry Volunteers
- Overview:
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55th Infantry Regiment, organized at Port Hudson, Louisiana, contained 900 veterans. It
was formed by consolidating Norwood's 6th and Snodgrass' 16th Alabama Infantry Battalions.
The men were from Madison, Cherokee, Calhoun, Jackson, and Marshall counties. Assigned to
Buford's Brigade, Department of Mississippi and East Louisiana, the unit saw action in the fight
at Champion's Hill and in the
trenches of Jackson. Later it
was attached to General Scott's Brigade, Army of Tennessee, and was active in the Atlanta Campaign and Hood's Tennessee
operations. Ordered to North Carolina it fought its last battle at Bentonville. This regiment entered the
Battle of Peach Tree Creek with
22 officers and 256 men, and lost 14 officers and 155 men killed and wounded. It surrendered
with the army on April 26, 1865. The field officers were Colonel John Snodgrass, Lieutenant
Colonels N.S. Graham and John H. Norwood, and Majors James B. Dickey and Joseph H. Jones.
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