Alan J. Pitts
26th/50h Alabama....
Tue May 15 16:19:17 2001


Great wartime news article! The company mentioned was the Blount Rebels", Company "E", 2nd Alabama Infantry Battalion; later Company "D", 26th/50th Alabama Infantry Regiment. Capt. George W. Arnold was wounded on Lickskillet Road near Atlanta, Georgia, July 28, 1864; died August 6, 1864, at Notasulga, Alabama. The War Department in Richmond didn't receive word of his death and appointed him Lieutenant Colonel January 19, 1865, to rank from April 2, 1864. A sketch of Cap. Arnold appears in Owen's "Dictionaryt of Alabama Biography", vol. 3, page 56.

His company was accepted in Confederate service at Summit, Alabama, October 15, 1861, members enrolling for three years or the war at Camp Bradford near Huntsville, Alabama, November 9, 1861, as Company “E”, 2nd Alabama Infantry Battalion.