May 2 , 1861 |
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)
Suffered 38 killed and 208 wounded out of 750 engaged, including Colonel Jones (mw, died September 3), Major Charles L. Scott (w) and Captain Lewis E. Lindsay (k)
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. |
January 1862 |
Regiment reenlisted for three years; Colonel Evander McIvor Law commanding |
May 31- June 1 |
Battle of Seven Pines
Lost 8 killed and 19 wounded, including Captain Gustavus B. Martin (KIA) |
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
Suffered 22 killed and 108 wounded out of 500 engaged, including Lt. Colonel Thomas J. Goldsby (w), Captains Hesley Armistead (k), Alfred C. Price (mw, died July 7), Frank C. Robbins (w), W. H. Robinson (w) and Adjutant Robert T. Coles (w)
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
Lost 2 killed, 13 wounded, includng Captains Lawrence Houston Scruggs and Major D. Sterrett wounded and William Lee killed |
August 29 - 30 |
Second Battle of Manasses
Suffered 20 killed and 43 wounded, including Lieutenant C. C. Ferris (k) |
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)
Lost 8 killed and 43 wounded, including Captain Scruggs (w, commanding) and James Sullivan (k). 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
Lost 5 killed and 17 wounded, including Captain James H. Keith (k) |
January 19, 1863 |
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
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."
The regiment lost 15 killed and 72 wounded, including Captain W. W. Leftwich (KIA). It was commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Lawrence Houston Scruggs. |
September 20 |
Battle of Chickamauga
Lost 14 kiled and 54 wounded out of 300 engaged, including Lt. Colonel Lawrence H. Scruggs (w); Major Thomas K. Coleman (k) and Captains Martin T. Billingsley (k) and Reuben Vaughan Kidd (k) |
November 17 -
Decembe 4 |
Siege of Knoxville
Suffered 5 killed and 24 wounded, including Captains Henry H. Moseley (WIA and captured) and Frank C. Robbins (w,c) |
April 27, 1864 |
Captain John D. Ogilvie dies in service |
May 5 - 7 |
Battles of the Wilderness
Lost 15 killed and 58 wounded out of 250 engaged, including Major William Mack Robbins (w); and Captains Bayless C. Brown (k), James H. Brown (w), James W. Darley (w) and James Taylor Jones (w) |
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
Lost 10 killed and 30 wounded, including Captain Capt. A. Murray (k) |
Spril 9, 1865 |
Surrendered 21 officers and 202 men at Appomattox under Lt. Colonel Scruggs |
