John B. Day, Corporal, Company D “Alabama Invincibles”, 38th Alabama Infantry, listed on a pay account of December 30, 1862 near Mobile, died September 10, 1863 at Kingston, Georgia, father Jno. F. Day filed claim for his pay, allowances, and effects, February 15, 1864, no further records
M311: Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Alabama
Company D was raised with men from Clarke County, Company E with men from Conecuh County. These two counties are close enough to one another, he may have been working or living temporarily in Clarke.
Note: There are no surviving regimental or company muster rolls, thus, we cannot ascertain his time or place of enlistment, or other facts of his service. Based on this site, I would believe he enlisted sometime after June 12, 1862. http://www.38thalabama.com/cod.html
Other regimental information can be found at:
http://www.38thalabama.com/
http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~oldfedrd/38th.html
http://ehistory.osu.edu/USCW/features/regimental/alabama/confederate/clayton.cfm
38th Alabama Volunteer Infantry Regiment, "Southerns at War - the Thirty-Eighth Alabama Infantry Volunteers," by Arthur E. Green. Originally published in 1999, by White Mane Publishing Company, Shippensburg, PA. This hardback book is 403 pages and contains a short history of this valiant Confederate Unit, complete with illustrations, newspaper accounts, letters, and the transcribed service records of 1498 men who served in the regiment while CSA service under Generals H. D. Clayton and James T. Holtzclaw. Copies are available on line at major book suppliers and from White Mane Publishing Co., Inc, P. O. Box 708, Shippensburg, PA 17257 or (717) 532-2237 or by emailing White Mane now.
http://www.mosocco.com/alabama.html
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38th Regiment, Alabama Infantry
38th Infantry Regiment was organized at Mobile, Alabama, in May, 1862, and remained there until February, 1863. Men of this command were raised in the counties of Clarke, Washington, Conecuh, Mobile, Wilcox, and Fayette. It was assigned to Clayton's, then Holtzclaw's Brigade, and took an active part in the campaigns of the Army of Tennessee from Chickamauga to Nashville. Transferred to the Department of Alabama, Mississippi, and East Louisiana, it suffered many hardships defending Spanish Fort. The regiment lost thirty-seven percent of the 490 engaged at Chickamauga, reported 214 casualties at Chattanooga, and totalled 272 men and 71 arms in December, 1863. During the Atlanta Campaign, May 7-27, it lost 12 killed, 88 wounded, and 24 missing, had 236 fit for duty in November, 1864, and surrendered about 80 on May 4, 1865. The field officers were Colonels Charles T. Ketchum and A.R. Lankford, Lieutenant Colonel W.J. Hearin, and Major Origen S. Jewett.
http://www.itd.nps.gov/cwss/soldiers.cfm
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THE THIRTY-EIGHTH ALABAMA INFANTRY.
The Thirty-eighth regiment was organized at Mobile in May, 1862,
and remained there until February, 1863.
Its first brigade commander was General Slaughter; then General
Cumming. Transferred to Bragg's army, it was under General
Clayton until his promotion; then under General Holtzclaw from
July, 1864, until its surrender at Meridian.
At Hoover's Gap, June 24, 1863, it went into its first real
battle, coming out almost unscathed; but at Chickamauga,
September 19th and 20th, its loss was very great. At Missionary
Ridge, November 25th, a large number, after fierce fighting, were
captured.
The winter of 1863-64 was passed at Dalton, and with the spring
of 1864 came the regiment's hardest work, in the Atlanta
campaign. At Rocky Face mountain, May 7th to 10th; at Resaca,
May 14th and 15th; New Hope church, May 25th, and at Atlanta,
July 20th to 28th, its losses were severe, both in killed and
wounded, and by capture.
In Holtzclaw's brigade, it went with Hood into Tennessee and
protected the rear of the army in the retreat. Transferred with
the brigade to Mobile, it was in the defense of Spanish Fort,
where it suffered its greatest privations. It held its original
organization until the end, and surrendered its remnant of 80 men
at Meridian.
Adjt. Alfred R. Murray was wounded; Capts. W. R. Welsh, John B.
Perkins and Charles E. Bussey were killed at Chickamauga; Capts.
W. H. Wright, wounded and captured; John A. Jackson, captured at
Missionary Ridge. Captain Jackson died in prison. Capt. Ben Lane
Posey was captured at Chickamauga, and wounded at Kenesaw.
The field officers were Cols. Charles T. Ketchum, and A. R.
Lankford, captured at Resaca; and Majs. 0. S. Jewett, killed at
Chickamauga, and W. J. Hearin, captured at Missionary Ridge.
Source: Confederate Military History, vol. VIII, p. 175