EXPLORE ALABAMA – For Adventure-Spirited Souls Looking for Something A Little Bit Different.
The majority of Alabama battlefields found listed at other sites show only the major battles throughout Alabama’s history. Digital Alabama tries to include the countless lesser known incidents. If bullets or arrows are flying, it is a battlefield.
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Alabama was not the scene of any significant military operations during the Civil War, yet it contributed about 120,000 men to the Confederate service, practically all the white population capable of bearing arms. Most were recruited locally and served with men they knew, which built morale and strengthened ties to home.
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The Battle of Ebenezer Church was a civil war battle fought between Confederate cavalry under Nathan Bedford Forrest’s leadership and a well-supplied Union force under the command of Union Maj. Gen. Hohn H. Wilson that had just triumphantly swept across Alabama virtually unopposed.
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