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Company K
20th Regiment,
Alabama Infantry
completed its organization in September, 1861, at Montgomery, Alabama.
The men were recruited in the counties of Jefferson, Greene, Bibb,
Perry, Dallas, Hale, Tuscaloosa, Washington, and Russell. After serving
at Mobile the unit was brigaded under Generals Barton, Tracy, and S.D.
Lee. It moved to Kentucky, but prior to the Battle of Murfreesboro it
was ordered to Mississippi. Here it took an active part in the conflicts
at
Port Gibson
and
Champion's Hill
and was captured on July 4, 1863, when
Vicksburg
fell. Exchanged and reorganized, the 20th was placed in General Pettus'
Brigade, Army of Tennessee. It was involved in various battles from
Chattanooga
to
Nashville
and ended the war in North Carolina. This unit contained 836 men in
December, 1861, sustained 58 casualties at Chattanooga, and totalled 526
men and 376 arms on December 14, 1863. During January, 1865 there were
305 present, and it surrendered with about 165. The field officers were
Colonels Charles D. Anderson, James M. Dedman, I.W. Garrott, and Edmund
W. Pettus; Lieutenant Colonels John W. Davis and Mitchell T. Porter; and
Majors John G. Harris and Alfred S. Pickering.
Information compiled by David Vardiman
from the
National Park Service's
Sailors and Soldiers surname search database and
Jack Vardaman's narrative. |
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