If anyone is interested in this elusive unit, they might find the following helpful:

The Mountain Eagle (Jasper, AL) dated 13 July 1921:

Some Interesting War History

Judge James W. Shepherd, administrator of the Estate of the late E. W. Miller, in looking over the estate of papers came across an interesting letter from Capt. R. C. Reed of Courtland Ala. It appears that Lieutenant Miller had written to Capt. Reed about the officers of the Musgrove Battalion organized by Col. F. A. Musgrove in the War of 1861.

Company A - Captain Reuben C. Reed, 1st Lieutenant Mose Cain, 2nd Lieutenant Richard Cain.
Company B - Captain Riley Medlin.
Company C - Captain John D. Mason, 1st Lieutenant Hugh Morrow, 2nd Lieutenant Dick Freeman.

Captain Reed says that he has forgotten all of the names of the other officers of the Battalion and asks any readers of The Eagle who are now living and who remembers the officers of the Musgrove Battalion that they will forward the names of such officers to Capt. R. C. Reed, Courtland Ala., or L. B. Musgrove, Jasper Ala.

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Musgrove was Francis A. Musgrove, former Captain of Co. L of the 28th Alabama Infantry. An article about his wife (nee Cain), mentioning the Colonel and Lieutenant Miller, is in the Montgomery Advertiser for 23 July 1911. Miller was a Lieutenant in Musgrove's Company of the 28th.

The battalion was presumably unauthorised as Dick Taylor, in the records for G. W. Lay (Fold3, Confederate Letters, Jan - Mar 1865), states that Musgrove’s Battalion is not known in this Department (AL, MS and EastLA). In the same reference P. D. Roddey also states “no such battalion in my command”. Lay’s records also refer to Capt. Powell’s Company, Musgrove’s Battalion.