The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-06-29
BRIEF SKETCH
Of the 40th Alabama Regiment, and it's Campaigns in the Southwest

VI tnC EOtAh &1A6Ht@AA41 4AS6 As.AC%~st @~A~ it's Campaigns in the Southwest. The 10th Alabama Regiment Qnfantry) was organized at Nashville. Tenn, ir December. 1881, under orders of the Con. rederate War Department. and numbered 800 meE It was composed entirely of North Alabamians. and to great extent from the Tennessee Valley.
 The first battle in which 1t was en. gagged was the battle of Shiloh. under Gen. Albert Sidney Johnston, where it lost seventy-five men killed and wounded. Col. Vim. Preston Johnston. in the life of his father, Gen. Albert Sidney John ston, in his graphic description of the battle of Shiloh, says that the Kentucky Brigade, to which at that time the 49th Alabama Regiment was attached, had been. on that day, detached from General Breckinridge's Corps, and sent to tho support of General Hardee on our left, and there assailcd pa t of General Sher- mans command, which was identified as McDowell's and the 18th Missouri. by the prisoners who were taken. and says,
 Finally bringing up the 18th Alabama Regiment which had been held in reserve, they charged at a double quick, routing the enemy and driving them at a run from the field.''
 This Regiment performed many deeds IS heroic as the part 1t acted in the ever memorable battle of Shiloh
 It was at Vicksburg, Miss, June and July, 1s6c, under Gen John c. Breckin- ridge; fin August. 1882. it was in the battle of Baton Rouge. La. It was at Port Hud- son. La. in the spring and summer of 1863, where it was besieged for forty-nine days by 50.000 Federal troops under Gen. eral Banks of Massachusetts. During the last ten days of the siege it subsisted on rice, molasses and mule meat and was surrendered July g. 1863, with S.2o0 other troops under Gen. Frank Gardiner
 This Regiment was afterwards in LOT tngs Division under Gen. Jos. F.. John- ston in tho retreat from Dalton to Att Ia-!ta. Tn the battle at New Hope Church on that retreat. May 18th and 26th, 1864, 1t lost heavily.
 It was in the fight at Kennesaw Moun- tain. June 27th. 1864. at battle of Big Shanty. June 3. at the battle of Peach Tree Creek, July 20. and in the battle of Atlanta. July g. 1884.
 This Regiment was with General Hood In his advance into Tennessee in the fall of 1864. It was at the battle of Franklin, Tenn, where it lost heavily in officers and prfvates. It was in the fight in front of Nashville, Tenn. 18th and 18th of De- cember. 1864. where its loss was severe hA hhhcu' WOuuuta
 Lieut.. Col. J. D. weeden, who had commanded the Regiment since the fall of Port Hudson, was here wounded and captured and held prisoner of war at the U. s. Military Prison, Johnson's Is- land, O.. until the 18th day of July, 1S65 Tho three field officers of the regiment were prisoners Of war at this placA at the same time, Colonel Edwards and Major Street having been captured at Port Hudson. This left the Regiment without field officer
 This Regiment was with Gen. Jos E. Johnston when the final surrender took place in North Carolina, and was in sev- eral important engagements there.
 It was in many less important sklrm- ishes during the war, not mentioned in this sketch. It nothing lacked in sol- diership except good fortune"
 Contributed by Col. John D. Weeden.
 Eliza Groom Coffee, Historian of the Florence Chapter, U.
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