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Gracie's Pride: The 43rd Alabama Infantry Volunteers

Name: Gracie's Pride: The 43rd Alabama Infantry Volunteers
Author: Arthur E. Green
ISBN: 9781572492417

by Arthur E. Green

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The 43rd Alabama Infantry Volunteers were mustered into the Confederate States Volunteer Army in the spring of 1862. The companies moved from their homes throughout Alabama and formed their regiment in Mobile, Alabama. Archibald Gracie, a New Yorker by birth, European-educated, and a graduate of West Point, raised the regiment and served as their commander. General Gracie led the 43rd through their training and into war in Kentucky. They fought in Tennessee, the Battle of Chickamauga, and Virginia. They met the enemy along the James at Chester's Station, Drewry's Bluff, and Hatcher's Run while protecting the Southern capital at Richmond. The regiment saw demoralizing service while in the trenches of the besieged city of Petersburg for almost eight months. General Gracie himself died upon the battlement in Petersburg, killed by enemy fire while he observed their positions. In the spring of 1865 they lost their regimental flag in an encounter at Hatcher's Run. They were with Lee and the Confederate Northern Army of Virginia when they surrendered at Appomattox Court House on April 9, 1865. The story of the 1,260 Alabama men that were once part of the regiment is told here with the unit history and soldiers' individual military records.

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Ironically titled, this book recounts the history of the 43rd Alabama Infantry volunteers, and their three year tenure of demoralizing warfare, bitter losses, and humiliating defeats<-->including eight months of trench fighting, the capture of the regiment's flag, the death of General Gracie himself, and the surrender of the Confederate Army at Appomatox Court House. The story of the 1260 men who fought with the unit is told here with the unit history and the soldier's individual military records. Green is an active member of southern genealogical associations. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)