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Company I,40th Alabama Infantry Regiment

bdtex

Administrator
Staff member
Those boys saw action in a lotta horrendous battles. I've been to some of those places. The 40th Alabama was at Vicksburg,some of the companies at Chickamauga,Chattanooga and the Atlanta Campaign. Been to all of them except Atlanta. Eyeballing a visit to a few Atlanta Campaign sites next year.
 

Corruptbuddha

Governor
Those boys saw action in a lotta horrendous battles. I've been to some of those places. The 40th Alabama was at Vicksburg,some of the companies at Chickamauga,Chattanooga and the Atlanta Campaign. Been to all of them except Atlanta. Eyeballing a visit to a few Atlanta Campaign sites next year.
Whenever I head back East I try to visit a battlefield or museum. Lots of history that I think will be, and is being, erased by the PC Left.
 

bdtex

Administrator
Staff member
Up until about 3 weeks ago I could find no record of which Companies were transferred to General Ector's Brigade and where they were during the Vicksburg Campaign or which Companies were part of the Vicksburg garrison and surrendered there. My ancestor survived the war and I have found nothing in his records that show that he surrendered at Vicksburg and was paroled/exchanged. Seeing that marker I posted above and seeing gravestones of soldiers from Co. I,40th Alabama Infantry at the Soldiers Rest Cemetery in Vicksburg made me do a little more digging:

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My digging showed that Co. I of the 40th Alabama Infantry was not with the men of the Regiment who were besieged and surrendered at Vicksburg. Company I got cut off from the Regiment somewhere north of Vicksburg. A source I found says that Companies A, D, and I of the 40th Alabama Infantry were 3 of the 4 companies not with the Regiment at Vicksburg. Got a book that I intend to read after my upcoming trip to Tennessee. It might explain where Company I was during the Vicksburg Campaign up to the Battle of Lookout Mountain. The author was a Captain in Co. A of the 40th AL Inf.

 

JackDallas

Senator
Supporting Member
Whenever I head back East I try to visit a battlefield or museum. Lots of history that I think will be, and is being, erased by the PC Left.
When I lived back East (Maryland 1988-1995) I visited every Civil War battlefield within a day's drive of me. Fredericksburg, a battle won by the South, has been completely built over with houses. Only the stone wall and the road behind it have been preserved.
First and Second Manassas, have been subject to conflict between developers and citizens wanting to preserve history.
Battlefields at which the Union won, have been preserved, almost without any disturbance. Gettysburg and Antietam (Sharpsburg) are in excellent condition, left almost as they were at the time. I applaud that because these two battlefields were probably two of the most important and critical battles in the war in the East.
 

bdtex

Administrator
Staff member
Battlefields at which the Union won, have been preserved, almost without any disturbance. Gettysburg and Antietam (Sharpsburg) are in excellent condition, left almost as they were at the time.
The geographic location of both battlefields made it easier to preserve them in that condition.
 

JackDallas

Senator
Supporting Member
The geographic location of both battlefields made it easier to preserve them in that condition.
Yes, they are more remote than Manassas. Manassas is now in the middle of a large populated area that wants to expand.
Fredericksburg, however, is a small town and I think that Battlefield should have been preserved. But the area of the field that has been overbuilt with houses, is the hill where thousands of Yankee Soldiers were slaughtered. Could be that no one wanted to remember that. I can't say that I blame them.
With all the crap that's going on in New Orleans, I hate to see any Civil War sites, artifacts, statues or whatever destroyed.
It's history, nobody today sees it as racism, except those seeking political advantage or favor.
 

SouthernBoyI

SouthernBoy
When I lived back East (Maryland 1988-1995) I visited every Civil War battlefield within a day's drive of me. Fredericksburg, a battle won by the South, has been completely built over with houses. Only the stone wall and the road behind it have been preserved.
First and Second Manassas, have been subject to conflict between developers and citizens wanting to preserve history.
Battlefields at which the Union won, have been preserved, almost without any disturbance. Gettysburg and Antietam (Sharpsburg) are in excellent condition, left almost as they were at the time. I applaud that because these two battlefields were probably two of the most important and critical battles in the war in the East.
Did you know that at Gettysburg they are taking photos from the period and then cutting trees and replanting with the proper size tree from the day of the battle? So that it looks like it did.

Pretty damn cool

SB
 

bdtex

Administrator
Staff member
@JackDallas and @SouthernBoyI

I appreciate the discussion guys. Gotta 9 day Civil War sightseeing road trip coming up in June and I am gonna be posting a lot about it when I get home. Going to Little Rock,Corinth, Shiloh, Murfreesboro,Spring Hill, Franklin and Nashville.
 

JackDallas

Senator
Supporting Member
Did you know that at Gettysburg they are taking photos from the period and then cutting trees and replanting with the proper size tree from the day of the battle? So that it looks like it did.

Pretty damn cool

SB
I didn't know that but it is pretty cool, like you said.
 

JackDallas

Senator
Supporting Member
Yep.
Guy giving us a tour told us about it.

Beautiful place.

SB
It is an awesome place. I've been there several times. When I lived in Maryland (22-years ago) I met an old man, about 80-years old, who grew up on a farm near the Gettysburg battlefield. He told me he wandered all over the site, digging up mini-balls and other artifacts.
I did an apartment project in Leesburg, Virginia. The superintendent had a metal detector he used to find all kinds of stuff on the site. All of Northern Virginia was a battlefield. This guy was a history buff too and he told me that all the ammunition and other stuff was left by the Yankees because the Confederates couldn't afford to be as wasteful as the Union troops.
 

bdtex

Administrator
Staff member
Sitting at the house today,reading my book about the 40th Alabama Infantry and learning about my ancestor's experience in the Civil War. Turns out that Co.'s A,D and I of the 40th Alabama Infantry were at the Battle of Chickamauga and that I likely walked on or near the same ground he did when I was at Chickamauga last year.
 

SouthernBoyI

SouthernBoy
Sitting at the house today,reading my book about the 40th Alabama Infantry and learning about my ancestor's experience in the Civil War. Turns out that Co.'s A,D and I of the 40th Alabama Infantry were at the Battle of Chickamauga and that I likely walked on or near the same ground he did when I was at Chickamauga last year.
Very cool.

I think I already told you I was able to find the exact spot my ancestor was wounded and captured at the wall during Pickett's charge at Gburg.

SB
 

bdtex

Administrator
Staff member
Very cool.

I think I already told you I was able to find the exact spot my ancestor was wounded and captured at the wall during Pickett's charge at Gburg.

SB
Even if you did already tell me, that's worth telling and hearing again. Hundreds of people made that walk yesterday at Gburg.
 

Constitutional Sheepdog

][][][%er!!!!!!!
Don't think I'm gonna join the SCV. I've checked out a coupla Chapters and they are just too political for me.
SCV's are political because they have to be.
Do you think your little roadside tours or knowledge of your ancestry would be possible if the history of what happens was erased because of being politically correct?
 

bdtex

Administrator
Staff member
SCV's are political because they have to be.
Do you think your little roadside tours or knowledge of your ancestry would be possible if the history of what happens was erased because of being politically correct?
That was a year and a half ago and my opinion of some of the political activity of the SCV has not changed. My desire to join the SCV has changed. Good thing I already made that decision before your shitty post. Do you think condescending lectures are helpful? Thank God the members I have been talking to are not like you. I am an adult and just as capable of doing my own research and making informed decisions as you are. You have no clue what all I do because I don't put it all out there in THIS forum because of members like you.

Do you think the SCV are the only ones involved in CW preservation, restoration and educational or political activities? Here's some $$$$$'s. Buy a clue.
 

bdtex

Administrator
Staff member
Very cool.

I think I already told you I was able to find the exact spot my ancestor was wounded and captured at the wall during Pickett's charge at Gburg.

SB
So far,I have not been able to find anything about my ancestor's service in the 40th Alabama Infantry beyond June 9, 1864. Company Muster Rolls show that he enlisted on May 10,1862 for "3 years or the War". The 40th Alabama was sent to Mobile, Alabama for awhile after the Atlanta Campaign. In late Jan. 1865 it began a redeployment to the remnants of the Army of Tennessee in NC. It took them 2 months to get there. The regiment saw action at the Battle of Bentonville. My ancestor mighta been there until the very end. He did survive the war. I seem to be the only one left in my family that's really interested in any of this.
 

bdtex

Administrator
Staff member
Very cool.

I think I already told you I was able to find the exact spot my ancestor was wounded and captured at the wall during Pickett's charge at Gburg.

SB
I have a trip to Georgia,primarily south Georgia,planned for June next year. Hopefully I can leave a few days early and start at Kennesaw Mountain and work my way down and visit the New Hope Church and Pickett's Mill battlefields and Andersonville too. The 40th Alabama Infantry saw action at Kennesaw Mountain and New Hope Church. Got some reading to do before I do that though.
 
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