40th Alabama Infantry
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- May 16, 1862 - Organized at Opelika, Lee County, Alabama
- ? - Mustered into Confederate service
- December 27-29, 1862 - Chickasaw Bayou
- March 14-27, 1863 - vs. Steele's Bayou Expedition
- March 25, 1863 - Fore's Plantation
- April 2-25, 1863 - Greenville Expedition
- May-July 1863 - Vicksburg Campaign
- May-July 1863 - Siege of Vicksburg
- July 4, 1863 - Surrendered at Vicksburg, Warren County, Mississippi
- Paroled here later this month
- Those not captured apparently served in a temporary organization called Stone's Sharpshooter Battalion
- September-November 1863 - Siege of Chattanooga
- November 1863 - Declared exchanged
- November 23-25,25, 1863 - Chattanooga
- May-September 1864 -
The Atlanta Campaign- May 5-11, 1864 - Rocky Face Ridge
- May 14-15, 1864 -
Battle of Resaca, Georgia- May 25-June 4, 1864 - New Hope Church
- July 22, 1864 - Atlanta
- July 28, 1864 - Ezra Church
- July-September 1864 - Siege of Atlanta
- February-April 1865 -
The Carolinas Campaign - March 19-21, 1865 - Bentonville
- Early 1865 - Field consolidation with:
- April 26, 1865 - Surrendered by General Joseph E. Johnston at Durham Station, Orange County, North Carolina
DESIGNATIONS
- Department of Alabama and West Florida / Army of Mobile (October-November 1862)
- Department of Mississippi and East Louisiana / 2nd Military District / Provisional Division (December 1862-January 1863)
- Department of Mississippi and East Louisiana / 2nd Military District / Unattached (January 1863)
- Department of Mississippi and East Louisiana / 2nd Military District / Maury's Division / Moore's Brigade (January-April 1863)
- Department of Mississippi and East Louisiana / Maury's/Forney's Division / Moore's Brigade (April-July 1863)
- Army of Tennessee / 1st Corps / Cheatham's Division / Moore's Brigade (November 1863-February 1864)
- Army of Tennessee / 2nd Corps / Stewart's/Clayton's Division / Moore's/Baker's Brigade (February-September 1864)
- Department of Alabama, Mississippi, and East Louisiana / District of the Gulf / Baker's Brigade (September-October 1864)
- Department of Alabama, Mississippi, and East Louisiana / District of the Gulf / Liddell's Division / Baker's Brigade (October 1864-January 1865)
- Army of Tennessee / 2nd Corps / Clayton's Division / Baker's Brigade (January-April 1865)
Regimental Roster
- First Commander: Augustus A. Coleman (Colonel)
- Ezekiel S. Gulley (Major, Lieutenant Colonel)
- John H. Higley (Lieutenant Colonel, Colonel)
- Thomas O. Stone (Major, Lieutenant Colonel)
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Regiment Statistical Information
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Legacy
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Notes
Sources
- Sifakis, Stewart. Compendium of the Confederate Armies. Alabama. New York: Facts on File, 1992. Print. (Pages 109-111, 132)
- Willett, Elbert Decatur. History of Company B (originally Pickens Planters), 40th Alabama Regiment, Confederate States Army, 1862 to 1865.
