The Seventeenth Alabama Infantry: A Regimental History and Roster [Paperback]

Illene D. Thompson (Author), Wilbur E. Thompson (Contributor)

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Publication Date: April 1, 2003 | ISBN-10: 0788419692 | ISBN-13: 978-0788419690

This work provides a remarkable account of the involvement of the 17th Alabama Infantry Regiment in the Civil War. The 17th Regiment was organized September 5, 1861, at Montgomery, Alabama. The 17th was mustered into the Confederate Army with a full regiment of ten companies and approximately 900 men. This book explores personal aspects of the soldiers as well as their reactions to events surrounding them. Much of their story is told using their own words, where available, from diaries, letters and military reports. Descriptions of the following military assignments are included: the coastal defense duties in Pensacola, the bloodbath at Shiloh, coastal defense at Mobile, the Battle of Atlanta, the Battle of Franklin and the Battle of Nashville. The appendices list a roster for the entire regiment with over 2,800 names, from each of the ten companies, listed in alphabetical order. Individual entries in the roster include: date and location of enlistment, disease, injury, capture and imprisonment, and discharge or parole. Date and location of birth, death and burial are listed, if known. A medical glossary and casualty lists can also be found in the appendices. This work includes a bibliography and a combined fullname and subject index.

Product Details

• Paperback: 487 pages
• Publisher: Heritage Books (April 1, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0788419692
• ISBN-13: 978-0788419690
• Product Dimensions: 8.1 x 5.3 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,177,845 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Confederate history and genealogy source, July 12, 2008

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This review is from: The Seventeenth Alabama Infantry: A Regimental History and Roster (Paperback)

Illene Thompson and her husband, the late Wilbur Thompson of Huntsville, Alabama, worked years researching Confederate soldiers who served in the 17th Alabama Infantry during the American Civil War, 1861-1865. The biographical sections on each soldier reflect extensive research in original sources and great attention to detail. Each soldier's entry may include alternate names and initials; dates and places of birth, death and burial; military service such as whether wounded, hospitalized, reported missing, captured, killed in action or death from other causes, and more. For anyone researching families in Butler, Lowndes and Montgomery counties and the surrounding south Alabama area who had men serving in the Confederacy, this is a great source book. For those of you interested in military history, the accounts of orders and deployments, leaders and soldiers, camps, marches, skirmishes and battles involving the 17th Alabama provide fascinating eye-witness history with quotes from original letters, diaries and other contemporary documents.