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For more on the AVC, sources include Governor Moore's papers, journals of the Alabama House and Senate for the sessions of 1859-60 and 1861, Acts of Alabama for 1859-60 and 1861, and newspapers published during that period. For instance detailed guidelines for the AVC uniform were printed in the Montgomery Advertiser, Apr. 11, 1860, page 4.

Names reported on company rolls changed dramatically over time. A comparison of the "Midway Southern Guards", organized in the summer of 1860, and the "Midway Guards", Co. "B", 15th Alabama Regiment, shows only four names listed on both rolls. All the other names are different. Also, for one reason or another, many AVC companies apparently were never activated, and quite a number of AVC officers never enlisted in Confederate service.

On Feb. 24, 1860, the Alabama state legislature authorized 8,000 officers and men to be allocated among 188 companies, at least one from every Alabama county. The number was later raised to 8,150. In January 1861 A. B. Moore reported to the legislature that he had armed 75 of the 85 companies organized during the previous year. Officers of at least 193 companies eventually applied for membership and received commissions from the Governor.

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