54th Regiment, Alabama Infantry
54th Infantry Regiment [also called 50th Regiment] wsa organized in October, 1862, by adding four Alabama companies of Walker's 5th Confederate Regiment to the 4th Confederate Regiment. Its members were from Coffee, Macon, Choctaw, Limestone, Blount, Morgan, and De Kalb counties. The unit served in General Tilghman's and Buford's Brigade, Department of Mississippi and East Louisiana, and saw action at Fort Pemberton and Champion's Hill. After the siege of Jackson, it was assigned to A. Baker's, Gibson's, and Brantley's Brigade, Army of Tennessee. The 54th participated in the Atlanta Campaign, moved to Mobile, then returned to the army in North Carolina. During the Atlanta Campaign, May 7-June 2, it lost 12 killed and 49 wounded, and in the Battle of Atlanta more than half of the regiment was disabled. Few were included in the surrender on April 25, 1865. The field officers were Colonels Alpheus Baker and John A. Minter, and Lieutenant Colonel T.H.
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http://www.archives.state.al.us/referenc/alamilor/54thinf.html
Bibliography
Brewer, Willis. Brief Historical Sketches of Military Organizations Raised in Alabama During the Civil War. Montgomery, AL: AL CW Centennial Comm, 1962. pp. 665-66 (1 photocopied page). (Brief history and roster of officers).
Confederate Military History, Extended Edition. Vol. 8: Alabama. Wilmington, NC: Broadfoot,
1987. pp. 213-15 (2 photocopied pages). E484C65.1987v8. (Brief unit history).
Crute, Joseph H., Jr. Units of the Confederate States Army. Midlothian, VA: Derwent Books,
1987. Ref. See p. 32 (1 photocopied page) for a concise summary of the regiment's service.
Sifakis, Stewart. Compendium of the Confederate Armies: Alabama. NY: Facts on File, 1992.
pp. 122-23 (1 photocopied page). E551S53. (Unit organizational history).