HISTORICAL NOTES:

The Alabama 10th Infantry Regiment was organized at Montgomery, 4 June 1861, with men recruited from Calhoun, De Kalb, Jefferson, Saint Clair, Shelby, and Talladega counties. It went to Virginia a month later. When it arrived at Winchester, it was brigaded under General Edmund Kirby Smith with the 9th and 11th Alabama, 19th Mississippi, and 38th Virginia regiments.

OFFICERS:

Colonels:
John Horace Forney
John J. Woodward
William Henry Forney
William Thomas Smith
Lt. Colonels:
Arthur Sinclair Cunningham
James Benson Martin
John J. Woodward
William Henry Forney
John Henry Caldwell
James E. Shelley
William Thomas Smith
Lewis W. Johnson
Majors:
Taul Bradford
John W. Woodward
William H. Forney
John H. Caldwell
James Davis Truss
Louis W. Johnson
Adjutants:
James B. Martin
James E. Shelley
L. W. Grant
William W. Draper

ASSIGNMENTS:

Brigaded under General Edmund Kirby Smith

Dranesville
Yorktown
Williamsburg
Seven Pines
Gaines' Mill
Frazier's Farm
2nd Manassas
Harper's Ferry
Sharpsburg
Hazel River
Fredericksburg
Salem
Gettysburg
The Wilderness
Spotsylvania
2nd Cold Harbor
Petersburg
Hatcher's Run
High Bridge
Farmville
Appomattox

ROSTERS:

•Co. "A", Ashville Guards (St. Clair): John H. Caldwell (promoted); Wilson L. Brewster (resigned, 2 June 64); Samuel A. Wyatt (resigned); Leroy F. Box

•Co. "B", Jefferson Volunteers (Jefferson): Alberto Martin (wounded, 2nd Manassas; resigned, 18 June 63); William A. McMillion (wounded, Gettysburg; resigned, 22 March 65); Thomas J. Hickman (wounded, High Bridge)

•Co. "C", Cahaba Valley Boys (Shelby): Rufus W. Cobb (resigned, 11 June 62); William M. Lee (KIA, Gaines' Mill); Andrew M. Moore (died in service, 6 Sept 64); Lt. John T. Wilson

•Co. "D", Alexandria Rifle Company (Calhoun): Franklin C. Woodruff (resigned, 14 July 62); Richard C. Rogan (resigned, 9 May 64); Franklin M. Allen (resigned); Lt. Thomas H. Martin

•Co. "E", Talladega Davis Blues (Talladega): John J. Woodward (promoted); Walter Cook (KIA, Salem Church, 21 May 63); James E. Shelley (promoted); Louis W. Johnson (promoted); William W. Draper

•Co. "F" (St. Clair): James Davis Truss (promoted); William T. Smith (wounded, Spotsylvania, Petersburg; promoted); B. F. Sides

•Co. "G", Pope Walker Guards (Calhoun): James B. Martin; William H. Forney (wounded, Drainesville; promoted); George C. Whatley (KIA, Sharpsburg); James B. Farmer (wounded, Gaines' Mill; resigned, 28 Nov 64); John A. Cobb (wounded, The Wilderness; resigned); James M. Renfro (wounded, Reams' Station); Lt. Thomas J. Walker

•Co. "H" (Calhoun): Woodford R. Hanna (resigned, 26 July 62); Francis Pickens Black (KIA, 1st Cold Harbor); A. T. Martin

•Co. "I" (DeKalb): Abner A. Hughes (promoted to colonel, 48th AL Regt); Caleb W. Brewton (resigned, 30 Nov 64); Robert W. Cowan (KIA, Gaines' Mill); Lemuel E. Hamlin (wounded, Sharpsburg; retired, 5 Nov 64); Simson G. Yeargain (wounded, Gettysburg); Lt. Thomas Christian

•Co. "K" (Talladega): John C. McKenzie (wounded, Frazier's Farm; resigned, 20 Dec 62); John Oden (wounded, Sharpsburg; resigned, 20 June 63); Motte C. Calhoun (resigned 19 Aug 63); Henry N. Coleman (KIA, Petersburg); Simon J. Morriss

BIBLIOGRAPHY:

REF: http://www.tarleton.edu/~kjones/rodes.html#6th
http://www.archives.state.al.us/referenc/alamilor/mil_org.html

Wheeler, Gen. Joseph
Confederate Military History - Alabama Volume

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