Art Green
Gracie's Pride - the 43rd Alabama Infantry Vols.
Mon Mar 26 21:02:13 2001


"Gracie's Pride - the 43rd Alabama Infantry Volunteers" will soon be published by White Mane Publishing Co. of Shippensburg, PA. It is similar to my book "Southerners at War - the 38th Alabama Infantry Volunteers". It has a short history and thorough roster with transcribed service records of 1260 men who served in the regiment. For the most part the men were from Mobile, Marengo, Greene, Tuscaloosa, Jefferson and Fayette Counties in Alabama. The 43rd Ala. Regiment was organized in 1862 by Colonel Archibald Gracie. Gracie was a Mobile merchant who was a native of New York and was later promoted to Brigade Commander. The 43rd joined the Kentucky Campaign then fought with honor at Chicamauga. They were transferred to Virgina and spent eight months in the trenches of Petersburg where General Archibald Gracie was killed by enemy shell. Col. Y. M. Moody of Marengo Co. was promoted to Brigadier General to lead Gracie's {Moody's) Brigade until they surrendered with Lee at Appomattox C. H. The 43rd only surrendered 70 men and 16 officers when they stacked their arms on April 9, 1865. Arthur E. Green