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1st Alabama Cavalry Regiment (Union)

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Another unit based in Huntsville, Alabama, Company B, 4th Alabama Cavalry (CSA), portrays Company B, 1st Alabama Cavalry (USV) and participates in historical living history, skirmishes, and battles in Alabama, Tennessee, Georgia, and Mississippi. The unit participates as both dismounted and mounted
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The regiment was mustered out of service at Huntsville, Alabama, on October 20, 1865, with only 397 men present. Out of the 2,000 men who served in the unit during the war, 345 were killed in action, died in prison of disease or other non-battle causes, 88 were captured, and 279 deserted, with no
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Silent Cavalry: How Union Soldiers from Alabama Helped Sherman Burn Atlanta—and Then Got Written Out of History
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portrayed Company C and was founded in 1992. It usually fights in reenactments as skirmishers.
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True Blue: White Unionists in the Deep South during the Civil War and Reconstruction
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in October 1862 after Federal troops occupied the area. It was attached to the
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Alabamians in Blue: Freedmen, Unionists, and the Civil War in the Cotton State
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Mountain Partisans: Guerrilla Warfare in the Southern Appalachians, 1861–1865
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in various divisions until November 1864, when it became part of the
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cavalry troopers, representing the 1863 to 1865 period of the war.
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Captain Phillip A. Sternberg of Co. B, 1st Alabama Cavalry Regiment
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The 1st Alabama Cavalry was raised from Alabama Unionists at
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Alabama Tories: The First Alabama Cavalry, U.S.A., 1862–1865
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Killed and mortally wounded: 5 officers, 482 enlisted men
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Lincoln's Loyalists: Union Soldiers from the Confederacy
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Military units and formations disestablished in 1865
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Units and formations of the Union Army from Alabama
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United States
United States
Union
United States Army
Union Army
Cavalry
Regiment
American Civil War
Battle at Cherokee Station
Battle of Barton's Station
Battle of Camp Davies
Battle of Snake Creek Gap
Battle of Nickajack Creek
Battle of Resaca
Battle of Rome Cross Roads
Battle of Dallas
Battle of Atlanta
Siege of Atlanta
Battle of Jonesborough
Battle of Monroe's Crossroads
Battle of Bentonville
George E. Spencer

cavalry
regiment
Southern Unionists
Union Army
American Civil War
Huntsville, Alabama
Memphis, Tennessee

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