Category Archives: The Alamutcha Infantry

Alamutcha Infantry Uniform

Posted on May 22, 2016 by Dick Stanley

The provenance here is missing, and the Alamutchas of Lauderdale County were only Company A until the 1862 reorganization (when they became Company E until the war ended) but I like the tricorn hat with the star. Unless the wounded fellow kneeling … Continue reading →

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George M. Mott’s message to Abe

Posted on July 10, 2013 by Dick Stanley

Rocky Lockley emails that he and Jason Hinton were relic hunting when they made this extraordinary find near Brucetown, northeast of Winchester, Virginia, where the 13th camped in October, 1862, after the Battle of Sharpsburg. He explains: “An Enfield bullet … Continue reading →

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Captured at Saylor’s Creek

Posted on April 6, 2013 by Dick Stanley

One hundred and forty-eight years ago this morning, on a cloudy Thursday, the Army of Northern Virginia fought its last battle. It was little more than a skirmish, actually, though it extinguished Humphreys’ Mississippi Brigade and most of the 13th … Continue reading →

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Retreat: the last brigade through Richmond

Posted on March 25, 2013 by Dick Stanley

“The final act in the pathetic, tragic struggle of 40,000 half-starved Confederates against the Federal host of 130,000 perfectly-equipped men began April 1st,” 1865, a Saturday. So wrote self-described 21st Mississippi Regiment veteran J.S. McNeilly for the Mississippi Historical Society … Continue reading →

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Battles: Cold Harbor

Posted on August 23, 2012 by Dick Stanley

On the night of May 31, 1864, the First Corps, including the 13th Mississippi Regiment, marched for Cold Harbor. Plans called for getting onto Grant’s left flank and rolling it up while the rest of Lee’s army attacked Grant’s front. … Continue reading →

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Just 208 men left in the 13th Regiment

Posted on May 29, 2012 by Dick Stanley

Captain Hugh D. Cameron, originally of the Alamutcha Infantry, was temporarily commanding the regiment on March 8, 1864. Cameron was a 17-year-old unmarried student when he enlisted in March, 1861. Cameron was substituting for Major George LaValle Donald, who had … Continue reading →

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Four lieutenants demoted

Posted on June 9, 2011 by Dick Stanley

Spartan Band diarist William H. Hill said it was snowing at dress parade on the morning of March 12, 1863, when an order from Gen. Lee was read to the regiment. The order said that four 13th lieutenants whom a … Continue reading →

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Among the dead

Posted on January 26, 2011 by Dick Stanley

More than forty years after the war, Robert Stiles, the Richmond Howitzers’ memoirist, recalled that the bloody defeat at Malvern Hill in 1862 depressed much of the gray army. “The demoralization was great and the evidences of it palpable everywhere. … Continue reading →

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