Note that 2nd Co. "I", 1st Alabama Regiment, includes reference to both Pattersons. Recruits from several counties in southeastern Alabama were assembled to fill out this artillery company, so it would be worth a look.
Company "H", 47th Alabama was the "LaFayette Guards" of Chambers and Tallapoosa Counties. The original "LaFayette Guards" had served twelve months as Company "A", 7th Alabama Regiment. When it disbanded, some members reenlisted in Companies "H" and "I" of the 47th Alabama Regiment. It's reasonable to believe that a Tallapoosa citizen enlisted in this command.
On a different note, Gov. John M. Patterson was the son of Albert Lee Patterson, attorney general-elect of Alabama but assassinated before taking office in 1954. This state has many unusual stories but surely one of the most notorious and least known is that of Phoenix City. The 1954 incident resulted in the only peacetime incidence in United States history not occasioned by natural disaster in which the military took control of civil government. I hope I will be pardoned for going astray, but here's the story:
http://www.alabamaeagle.org/gambling/could_this_be_your_town.htm
During antebellum times the community was officially known as Sodom, and had much in common with another town by the same name which once existed at the southern end of the Dead Sea. One of my ancestors from Russell County served in Hardaway's Battery under an officer whose descendant may have been responsible for the assassination. In my opinion, responsibility for killing Albert Lee Patterson remains as unresolved today as the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing case.
Twenty-one years ago I went to work for a company owned by General Walter J. "Crack" Hanna, who had been in charge of the Alabama National Guard in 1954. Someone mentioned my interest in Alabama history to him, and he called me to his office. For the next two days we rummaged about through newspaper clippings, photographs and stories, much about his role in the military occupation of Phoenix City. A career military man, General Hanna had a wonderfully creative command of profanity and had more than a casual acquaintance with the kinds of vices available to servicemen just outside bases such as Fort Benning. That being said, the audacity and extent of crime an corruption as it existed in Phoenix City never ceased to astonish him. The story as it should have been told long ago has been recently published by a Georgia reporter, but the title escapes me now.
General Hanna was colonel of the 155th Infantry Regiment, 31st ("Dixie") Division which served in the Pacific Theater in World War II. One of our National Guard armories in Birmingham is named for him, as is the public library in Fairfield AL. His Blount County ancestor (I believe), Capt. John M. Hanna, Co. "C", 29th Alabama, was killed near Lickskillet Road, just outside Atlanta GA on July 28, 1864.
"Crack" Hanna was an extraordinary man, and I'm pleased to have known him.
Here's a National Guard link which lists governors of Alabama and their adjutant generals from 1819 forward. I'll admit that some of the Civil War era names were unfamiliar to me. General Hanna served during the Persons administration: