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59th Alabama Infantry Regiment
59th Alabama Infantry Regiment
	Flag of Alabama in 1861 (obverse and reverse)
Active	November 25, 1863 to April 9, 1865
Country	Confederate States of America
Allegiance	Alabama
Branch	Confederate States Army
Type	Infantry
Engagements	American Civil War Siege of Knoxville; Battle of Chickamauga; Battle of Bean's Station; Battle of Dandridge; Battle of Chester Station; Battle of Drewry's Bluff; Siege of Petersburg Battle of the Crater; Battle of Hatcher's Run; Battle of White Oak Road; ; Battle of Appomattox Court House;
Commanders
Notable; commanders	Col. Balling Hall III.

The 59th Alabama Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment of the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War.

Organization edit

The regiment was formed on November 25, 1863 at Charleston, Tennessee by consolidating the 2nd Infantry and the 4th Artillery Battalions, Hilliard's Alabama Legion.^[1]

Service edit

The regiment served in Gracie's Alabama Brigade in the Department of East Tennessee participating in Longstreets Knoxville Campaign and later the Army of Northern Virginia in the Siege of Petersburg. During the latter campaign, the Regiment lost its battle flag during the Battle of Hatcher's Run in February 1865,^[2] but the regiment went on to surrender at Appomattox Courthouse on April 9, 1865.

Staff officers edit

Colonel Bolling Hall III.
Lieut. Colonel John D. McLennan
Lieut. Colonel Geo. W. Huguley
Major Geo. W. Huguley
Major Lewis H. Crumpler
Lt. Crenshaw Hall, adjutant

Field officers edit

John C. Hendrix
S. E. A. Reaves
John F. Wise
CJohn E. Hall
W. Dillard
John Porter.
E. L. McIntyre
John A. Henley.
W. H. Stuckey
W. J. Peacock.
L. H. Crumpier
W.R. Davie
James Lang
R. Glasgow
Louis Harrell
H. H. Rutledge
Zach. Daniel
R. F. Manly
W. D. Walden
R. H. Gulledge.^[3]

References edit

^ Stewart Sifakis. Compendium of the Confederate Armies: Alabama. New York: Facts on File, 1992, p. 131
^ Glenn Dedmondt. The Flags of Civil War Alabama. Louisiana: Pelican Publishing, 2001, p. 108
^ Fifty-Ninth Alabama Infantry Regiment, Alabama Department of Archives and History