60th Alabama Infantry Regiment

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60th Alabama Infantry Regiment
Flag of the Alabama Secession Convention (reproduction, obverse).svg Flag of Alabama (1861, reverse).svg
Flag of Alabama in 1861 (obverse and reverse)
ActiveNovember 25, 1863 to April 9, 1865
CountryFlag of the Confederate States of America (1865).svg Confederate States of America
AllegianceFlag of the Alabama Secession Convention (reproduction, obverse).svg Alabama
BranchBattle flag of the Confederate States of America (1-1).svg  Confederate States Army
Type Infantry
SizeRegiment
Engagements American Civil War
Commanders
Notable
commanders
Col. John W. A. Sanford

The 60th Alabama Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment of the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. The regiment was formed on November 25, 1863 at Charleston, Tennessee by consolidating four companies of the 1st Battalion and the 3rd Battalion, Hilliard's Alabama Legion. [1]

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The regiment served in Gracie's Alabama Brigade in the Department of East Tennessee and later the Army of Northern Virginia.

The regiment surrendered at Appomattox Courthouse on April 9, 1865.

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Notes

  1. Sifakis p.131

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