Saturday, December 2, 2006

Company B, 49th Alabama Infantry Regiment "The DeKalb Rifles"


The Regiment was originally mustered into service at Camp Lookout near Chattanooga, Tennessee as the 31st (Hale's) Alabama Infantry Regiment, but its designation was changed in the spring of 1862. It was also called the 52nd Alabama Regiment. The 49th Alabama Infantry Regiment was organized at Nashville, in January 1862 with men from Blount, Colbert, DeKalb, Jackson, Lauderdale, Lawrence, Limestone, Madison, Marshall, and Morgan counties. It was attached to the Kentucky Brigade of General John C. Breckinridge...(more)

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