The 4th Alabama Infantry Regiment mustered 1,422 men during the Civil War, of whom 240 died in battle and nearly 100 of disease
1861 |
May 2 |
Organized at Dalton, Georgia, under Colonel Egbert J. Jones and sent to Viginia |
May 7 |
Mustered into sevice at Lynchburg for twelve months and sent on to Harpers Ferry |
Early July |
Attached to General Barnard Bee's Third Brigade (2nd and 11th Mississippi and 1st Tennessee) |
July 21 |
Battle of Manasas (Bull Run)
Captain Lewis E. Lindsay and 37 enlisted men were killed, Colonel Jones was mortally wounded, dying September 3, and Major Charles L. Scott and other men were 206 wounded out of 750 engaged
General Beauregard's report says: "The Fourth Alabama also suffered severely from the deadly fire of the thousands of muskets which they so dauntlessly confronted under the immediate leadership of Bee himself. Its brave colonel (E. J. Jones) was dangerously wounded and many gallant officers fell, slain or hors de combat... It was now that General Johnston impressively and gallantly charged to the front with the colors of the Fourth Alabama by his side, all the field officers of the regiment having been previously disabled. The brave Bee was mortally wounded at the head of the Fourth Alabama." |
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Brigadier General Whiting takes command of the brigade after Bee's death and Major Owen Kenan McLemore was transferred from the 14th Alabama and promoted to Colonel of the 4th. |
1862 |
January |
Regiment reenlisted for three years; Colonel Evander McIvor Law commanding |
May 31-
June 1 |
Battle of Seven Pines
Captain Gustavus B. Martin and 7 enlisted men were killed and 19 were wounded |
June 15 |
Sent to join Jackson in the Shenandoah Valley, but return with him to the Richmond area |
June 27 -28 |
First Battle of Cold Harbor
Captains Hesley Armistead and 21 enlisted men were killed, Captain Alfred C. Price was mortally wounded, Lt. Colonel Thomas J. Goldsby, Captains Frank C. Robbins and W. H. Robinson, Adjutant Robert T. Coles and 103 eniisted men were wounded out of 500 engaged
General Whiting says in his report: "Lieut.-Col. O.K. McLemore, Fourth Alabama, received a painful wound early in action, the command devolving on Capt. L. H. Scruggs, who conducted the regiment through." |
July 1 |
Battle of Malvern Hill
Captain William Lee and 1 enlisted man were killed and Major D. Sterrett, Captain Lawrence Houston Scruggs and 11 enlisted men were wounded |
August 29 - 30 |
Second Battle of Manasses
Lieutenant C. C. Ferris and 19 enlisted men were killed and 43 were wounded |
Septembe 15 |
Battle of Boonesboro
Lieutenant Colonel Owen Kenan McLemore mortally wounded; he died on September 40 in Winchester. |
September 17 |
Battle of Sharpsburg (Antietam)
Captain James Sullivan and 7 enlisted men were killed and Captain Scruggs, commanding the regiment, and 42 enlisted men were wounded, including. Colonel Law reported, "The Fourth Alabama pushed into the wood in which the skirmish had taken place the evening previous and drove the enemy through and beyond it .... Captain Scruggs commanding the Fourth Alabama received wounds while discharging his duty." Captain William M Robbins took command after Scruggs was wounded. |
November 14 |
General Chilton's inspection report details, "Fourth Alabama, Col. P. D. Bowles: Arms mixed, in tolerable order, 12 wanting; 50 men needing clothes and shoes; 2 barefooted; camp in tolerable order." |
December 13 |
Battle of Fredericksburg
Captain James H. Keith and 4 enlisted men were killed and 17 were wounded |
1863 |
January 19 |
Transferred to Law's Alabama Brigade in Hood's Division of Longstreet's Corps per Lee's Special Orders No. 19 |
April 11 - May 6 |
Suffolk Campaign |
July 1 - 3 |
Battle of Gettysburg
The regiment was commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Lawrence Houston Scruggs. Captain W. W. Leftwich and 14 enlisted men were killed and 72 wounded.
A marker for the regiment is on South Confederate Avenue:
"July 2. Left New Guilford 25 miles distant at 3 a.m. Arrived here and formed line about 4 p.m. and under fire from Smith's Union Battery on Rocky Ridge and the Sharpshooters in Plum Run Valley. Advanced at once against the Union Position on Little Round Top. The Regiment encountered the 83d Penna. and right wig of the 20th Maine. The conflict lasted until night-fall."
"July 3. Occupied breastwork on western slope of Round Top with firing on skirmish line. At 5 p.m. intercepted near the Slyder house and aided in repulsing the Union Cavalry under Brig.-Gen. Farnsworth and pursued it into the forest south of the valley. About 11 p.m. the regiment under orders resumed position near here and lay inactive the next day and night."
"July 5. About 5 a.m. began the march to Hagerstown."
"Present officers and men about 275. Killed and wounded 87."
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September 20 |
Battle of Chickamauga
Major Thomas K. Coleman, Captains Martin T. Billingsley and Reuben Vaughan Kidd and 11 enlisted men were killed and Lt. Colonel Lawrence H. Scruggs and 53 enlisted men wounded out of 300 engaged |
November 17 -
Decembe 4 |
Siege of Knoxville
Suffered 5 killed and 24 wounded, including Captains Henry H. Moseley and Frank C. Robbins, who were wounded and captured |
1864 |
April 27 |
Captain John D. Ogilvie dies in service |
May 5 - 7 |
Battles of the Wilderness
Captain Bayless C. Brown and 14 enlisted men were killed and Major William Mack Robbins, Captains James H. Brown, James W. Darley and James Taylor Jonesand 55 enlisted men were wounded out of 250 engaged
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May 8 - 12 |
Battles of Spottsylvania
Lost 4 killed and 11 wounded |
May 23 - 26 |
Battle of Hanover Junction
Captain Jason M. West is wounded |
May 30
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June 1-12 |
Second Battle of Cold Harbor
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July 1864 -
April 1865 |
Siege of Petersburg
Captain Capt. A. Murray and 10 enlisted men were killed and 30 were wounded |
1865 |
April 9, 1865 |
Surrendered 21 officers and 202 men at Appomattox under Lt. Colonel Scruggs |
