The 5th Alabama Infantry Regiment spent the winter of 1862/63 in Caroline County, Virginia. A Company Captain made the following appeal, which was published in an Alabama newspaper.

CLARKE COUNTY [AL] JOURNAL, November 13, 1862, p. 2, c. 4

We are in receipt of a letter from S. T. Woodard, Captain of the Grove Hill Guards, in which he states that the Company is greatly in need of Clothing, Shoes, Blankets, &c. Friends and the public are appealed to to furnish such articles or many are bound to suffer during the approaching winter. Articles, boxed up and directed to the Company, will be forwarded from Montgomery, by Gov. Shorter, free of charge.—We trust something may be done for them as soon as possible.