The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-09-29
DEPARTMENT OF ARCHIVES AND HISTORY OF ALABAMA.
 THOMAS M. OWEN, Director
THOMAS N. OWEN, Director.

and on Fis return narrated that he had orders to move to Shiloh soon Monday morning, April 6. 1864 which he did. It such orders and because of this fact some three weeks, or less. afterwards, Blount was relieved of his command and four Alabama Al n aDi Regiment " and @ four in the 18th Alabama Regiment, The company of Cap thin Levy Lloyd was the only company retained ip its entirety and was known: snt Company I.
 The battalion moved with rapidity to Shiloh, the field of carnage, reaching the they first learned the sound of the min nie ball and the bursting of shells which afterwards or later on in the war be- the battalion was marched back to its quarters near Corinth. The principal gain made by this command, by going to Shiloh. was the exchange ot the guns | The guns they carried with them were old army flint and steel locks, poorly turned into percussion locks The bat- talion was thereafter pretty well armed: 1 After the battalion was consolidated with the 17th and 18th Regiments. Blount sapReared and was seen no more WiLh the Western army, so far as now kno%, His given name I cannot now recall Major Lloyd went op the stan of bflga- dier General John k. Jackson of Geor- gla and ! think Is now somewhere in Mississippi.
 While in the I7th and 18th Regiments the members of the battalion were in all or many of the skirmishes around Cor | inth in April and May. lS6z. think the | mington, near Corinth, and the 18th was in the fight at Blacland, Miss in May. l ls62.
 After the close of the Corinth and Mis- siysippi campaigns, the l7th and 18th Reg | iments were sent to Mobile, where they remained until April, 1883, where they were ordered to Tuilahoma, Tenn. In the early part of February and pos sibly in January Of 1883, Captain J: N 1homasoH procured an order of the War Department to Feorganize the sth Alaba- ary, 1863 On the organization, at my in time Captain of Company L, 18th Ala. hama, was elected Lieutenant Ioiohei | and J. M. Thomson was elected Major.
 The companies were. on their reorgani- zation. commanded as follows, viz: John | W. InzeF, George H. Markham, w. w.
 ahsF tain dd sfne AosSS hTs[ " "'fa E. Lss sD shd | c. l.. HarFeN.
 But a few days after the reorgani-
 Eation of the battalio9 word reached the | this Major Thomson, who had been
 made Major on the reorganization. had
 died in Richmond of smallpox, Then an | election was held and John w. lnzer was
 elected Major without opposition and | Sindey Lister because Captain of InZer' s
 company. The battalion. few days he fore the reorganization. was largely 1 strengthened by reoruits mustered in by l Jchn W. Inzer, while on recruiting leave atShome, St. Clair. county;
 On this reorganization Dr, J. KiFksey
 became surgeon, Captain Dan Jones, | QuaFtermaster, and Bob Harris of Me | lSinley. Marengo county. was made Ad- | tutant of the battalion
 l The battalion rem aimed at Mobile until | the 18th day of April. 1888. when 1t was l moved to Tullahoma, Tenn. There the 1 hattaliop was placed Tn new brigade, then organized with the 18th; ssth and l 5Sth Alabama Regiments, and this was | Clayton's lst Brigade.
 From Tullahoma this brigade went to | Wartraee, Tenn. and from there to near Beech Grove. This battalion was in | the battle at HaFris's Gap and Beech | Grove in June, 1888, From there the bat tslion went back to Tmllahoma and | field in June, 1883. w. B. Bate of Tennes- l see was made Brigadier General and the
 9th Alabama Battalion was put in this | brigade with 20th 18th and 37th Tennes- 1 see, and 3Tth Georgia Regiments; and
 while this regiment was there encamped
 near Fairfield Ii acauic9d it's 9th com | Averitt then from Tanadega. This com
 rany was raised from Talladega and St.
 Clair counties. and had been acting as
 scouts in the State of North aCrolina.
 On reaching Wauhatchie, near Chatta-
 nooRa. in the early part of July, 1882 the
 Battalion acquired its tenth company.
 commanded by Captain Samuel D. Olli-
 yer of Autauga County. Alabama. and
 in the month of July, 1863. the 9th Ala | bama Battalion was re-organized into
 the 5sth Alabama Regiment Volunteers,
 and Bush Jones. of Perry County became
 Colonel. John W. Inzer Lieutenant-Co
 lonel, and Harry I. Thornton Major. It
 was understood and agreed between the
 regiment and Thornton. in June, 1888 who
 was then on General Braggs staff that
 if he could procure two companies he
 Embarrassment was carried out to the
 letter and was never thereafter regret
 ted -
 created it was In camn near TyRer' 6
 station, Teun.; from there In August,
 1863. it was put on picket duty on the l Tennessee River above Chattanooga.
 From there the Regiment went to Lou