The Civil War in Alabama Homepage

Confederate National Flags, flown over the state capital, 1861-1865*

1st National Flag || 2nd National Flag

For questions about Alabamians and their role in the Civil War, please go to the

[Alabama Civil War Message Board]; for requsts for military and/or pension records, go to [Military Records Research Service]

For the chronology of events in Alabama during the Civil War, go to one of these years:

1860 1861 1862 1863 1864 1865
or on the [ADAH Timeline].

Topics for further study:

Alabama Confederate Veterans [Burials, 1907 Census, more]
- Reunions
  - 23rd Alabama Infantry [Location, Date unknown]
  - Escambia County, AL [Pollard, AL, 1910] [Roster of Clanton Camp, UCV]
- Confederate Memorial Park, Alabama Veterans' Home, Marbury [Cemetery list, #1] [Cemetery list, #2] [AL Historical Commission, brief notes]
Alabama Counties and the Troops Raised There
Battles, Fights, and Skirmishes within Civil War Alabama:
- Athens [Capsule history, engagement, May 62] [Battle summary, 26 Jan 64]
- Croxton's Raid [See Tuscaloosa, below]
- Day's Gap, Battle of [Battle summary] [Capsule history, photos]
- Decatur, Battle of [Battle summary]
- Fort Blakeley, Siege of [History, illustrations, map, more] [Battle summary]
- Hog Mountain, Battle of [Photos, descriptions]
- Mobile Bay, Battle of [History] [History, illustrations, Fort Gaines] [CSS Tennessee involvement]
- Munford, Battle of (23 April 1865) [Brief notes]
- Rousseau's Raid [History, photo] [NY Times article, long]
- Selma, Battle of [Battle summary] [History]
- Southeastern Alabama (Federal Raid) [History, Dec, 62--Jan 63]
- Spanish Fort, Battle of [Battle summary]
- Streight's Raid [Cullman County and Streight's Raid]
- Talladega, Battle of [Brief notice, list of deaths]
- Tuscaloosa, (Croxton's Raid) [Burning the U of Alabama campus]
- Wilson's Raid [Official reports] [Brief notes]
Bibliography, Alabama During the Civil War
- [Alabama Civil War regimental histories]
- [Civil War in Alabama] from the Alabama Department of Archives and History [ADAH homepage]
- Archival and manuscript collections:
  - Alabama Dept of Archives and History [Military records, description]
  - Auburn University [Civil War archival collections]
  - Birmingham Public Library [Archives]
  - Mobile area [Guide to Civil War collections]
  - University of Alabama [Special collections]
Civil War [Camps] or [Hospitals] in Alabama
Civil War Flags in Alabama [Regimental flag collection at ADAH] [Secession flag]
Genealogy of Alabama during the Civil War [Alabama GenWeb]
Historic Places within Civil War Alabama
- Coosa County [Brief notes, including military units]
- Cornwall Furnace, Cedar Bluff [Brief notes, photo]
- Decatur, AL [Illustrations, history]
- Fort Gaines, Mobile [Description, photos] [History, photos]
- Fort Morgan, Mobile [Photos, description]
- Mobile [Capsule history]
- Montgomery [as first Confederate capital]
- Pond Spring [Joe Wheeler home, description, photos]
- Selma, Ordnance Works [Brief notes, photo]
- Tallapoosa County [History, photos]
- Tuscaloosa [Outline history, reenactor photos]
Legislative History, Civil War Alabama [AL constitutions, historical timeline, archives, more]
Local Designations of Alabama Units [Company nicknames]
Maps of Civil War Alabama
- Alabama 1861-1865 [Map from Clement Evans' Confederate Military History (72 dpi resolution; for 300 dpi - large file - click on image)]
- Alabama Battlefields [Map of engagements] [Similar map] [Civil War sites]
- Blakeley Siege [Contemporary map]
- Mobile, Defenses of [Map from Clement Evans' Confederate Military History]
- Routes of Union Activity in Alabama [Maps of routes, etc.]
Message Boards for Civil War Alabama
- Alabama in the Civil War [Message Board]
- Alabama Civil War [Message Board] (Rootsweb, genealogy)
Muster rolls [Muster rolls via email] [Alabama links]
Naval ships, C.S., with relationships to Alabama (Alabama, Florida, Gaines, Hunley, Nashville, Tennessee) will be found at [Confederate States Navy]
Personalities in the Civil War, from Alabama
- Alabamans in the Civil War, the Political Graveyard [Biographical notes, burial sites]
- Confederate Officers [Alabamans who died in service] (courtesy Alan J. Pitts)
- [Davis, Jefferson], in Alabama
- [Gorgas, Josiah]
- [Emma Sansom] or [Similar page]
Prison Camps and Prisoners
- Cahaba, AL [History]
Reenactor Groups, Alabama Units [Directory]
Regimental Histories of Alabama Units
- Confederate States forces [Index, Confederate regimental histories] [Capsule histories] [Capsule histories (Confederate Military History)]
- United States forces [Index, Union regimental histories] [Capsule histories (Dyer's Compendium)]
Personal information cards, Civil War [Alabama soldiers, searchable list (partial)]

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The page created 3 April 1997; last updated, 18 June 2009.
Waving flags contributed by Jim Martin. These were the only Confederate national flags to fly over the Alabama capitol. See Glenn Dedmondt's The Flags of Civil War Alabama* (Gretna, LA : Pelican Publishing, 2001), p. 16

Confederate National Flags, flown over the state capital, 1861-1865*

1st National Flag || 2nd National Flag

1860 1861 1862 1863 1864 1865

Topics for further study:

The page created 3 April 1997; last updated, 18 June 2009. *Waving flags contributed by Jim Martin. These were the only Confederate national flags to fly over the Alabama capitol. See Glenn Dedmondt's The Flags of Civil War Alabama (Gretna, LA : Pelican Publishing, 2001), p. 16

The page created 3 April 1997; last updated, 18 June 2009.
Waving flags contributed by Jim Martin. These were the only Confederate national flags to fly over the Alabama capitol. See Glenn Dedmondt's The Flags of Civil War Alabama* (Gretna, LA : Pelican Publishing, 2001), p. 16