Alabama Civil War
The Rape of Athens Alabama
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The townpeople estimated the damage to be fifty-five thousand dollars. The resulting pillage and plunder came to be known as the Rape of Athens.
Forts In Alabama
Fort Harker
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Fort Harker was built to defend a strategic position captured by Union troops in northeastern Alabama. Situated atop a hill east of the town of Stevenson, it was constructed in the summer of 1862 by soldiers and freed slaves of the Army of the Cumberland.
Alabama Civil War Sites
Dec 12 1862: Barton Alabama
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Barton, also known as Barton Station, Barton Depot, or Barton’s, is an unincorporated community located in western Colbert County, Alabama, United States. It is about ten miles west of the county seat of Tuscumbia, and just south of Tennessee River. The community is about four miles southeast of Cherokee on US Route 72.
Alabama Civil War Sites
April 28 1862: Skirmish at Paint Rock Bridge
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The Skirmish at Paint Rock Bridge was an action fought between a Union Army detachment of 27 men guarding a bridge near Woodville, Alabama and a Confederate States Army cavalry detachment intent on destroying the railroad bridge on April 28, 1862 during the American Civil War.
Alabama Civil War Sites
May 10 – 14, 1862: Lamb’s Ferry
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According to Civil War journals, on May 4, 1862, Union General John Adams and his cavalry troops were at Lamb’s Ferry when they received orders to move down the Tennessee River to Bainbridge Ferry. From May 10 through the 14, 1862, skirmishes between the Union and Confederate troops occurred around Lamb’s Ferry; the area remained occupied by Union soldiers until May 14, 1862.
Alabama Civil War Sites
Bridgeport Alabama
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Bridgeport was the site of a major skirmish on April 29 and August 26, 1862, and numerous other small actions took place in the area. In the latter part of the war, Bridgeport was the site of a major shipyard building gunboats and transports for the Union Army.
Alabama Civil War Sites
April 23, 27, 29, 1862: Siege of Bridgeport
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Skirmishes at or near Bridgeport, Alabama between Union Army and Confederate States Army forces occurred on April 23, 27 and 29 (West Bridge), 1862 during the American Civil War.
Alabama History 1862
4th Regiment, Alabama Cavalry (Roddy’s)
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4th (Roddey’s) Cavalry Regiment was organized at Tuscumbia, Alabama, in October, 1862. The men were from Franklin, Lauderdale, Lawrence, and Walker counties. On April 2, 1865, most of the unit was captured. The remaining part surrendered.
Alabama Civil War Sites
July 26 1862: Brief but Deadly Fight at Spangler’s Mill Near Jonesboro
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In March 1862 Samuel Tarrant raised the Jonesboro Guards that mustered at Shelby Springs as Company H of the 28th Alabama Infantry Regiment.
Checking the actual record on this revealed the following:
Alabama Civil War Sites
July 25, 1862 Courtland Alabama
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A trooper of the 1st Ohio Cav. attests that the rebel yell “would have raised the hair on a Comanche Indian.”
13th battalion
13th Battalion, Alabama Partisan Rangers (13th Battalion, Alabama Cavalry)
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13th Battalion Partisan Rangers, organized during the early fall of 1862, contained four companies.
THREE YEARS IN THE CONFEDERATE SERVICE
THREE YEARS IN THE CONFEDERATE SERVICE: Chapter III
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The feeling between the prisoners and guards was not very friendly, and the former delighted in keeping the latter in fear of an outbreak.