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28th Alabama Infantry

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Company Unknown

Private

P. S. Engle's widow, Polly, applied for and received a widow's pension in Izard Co, AR in 1901. She said he was in the 28th AL Infantry from AL, serving from April 1862-Spring of 1865, belonging to Capt Steve Dunigan's company. Wounded at Chattanooga, TN
Contributor Earlene PorterDate added 12/27/2007

Company Unknown

Musician

No family notes have been added.
Contributor Arthur B. BrownDate added 7/9/2012

Company Unknown

Private

My great-great grandfather, William Gordon Sandlin, enlisted in the 28th Alabama Infantry, G.W. Hewitt's Co, March 29, 1862 at Shelbyville, Tennessee. He was hospitalized at Chattanooga, TN and then sent home to recuperate. While at home, he was recruitted by Captain Andy Patterson as a member of the 4th Alabama Calvary until he could return to his old unit. He caught up with the 28th Alabama Infantry at Dalton, GA, where he was then permanently transferred to the 4th Alabama Calvary.
Contributor David J SandlinDate added 2/20/2013

Company A

Private

No family notes have been added.
Contributor Charles MillerDate added 7/21/2015

Company A

Private

Enlisted Marion, Perry County, Al 1/24/1862; died of camp fever in Tupelo, MS 6/29/1862. Do not know where buried. Any info would be appreciated.
Contributor Patricia Colburn BrowningDate added 4/11/2012

Company A

Sergeant

My Great Great Great Uncle
Contributor Timothy Date added 1/7/2011

Company A

Private

My Great Great Great Uncle
Contributor Timothy Date added 1/7/2011

Company A

Private

No family notes have been added.
Contributor John PateDate added 2/28/2011

Company A

Private

My Great Great Grandfather
Contributor Timothy Date added 1/7/2011

Company B

Private

I am related to nearly all the boys in Co B, and some in Cos A,C, D, E, G & L
Contributor Carol Ann MorrisHomepage www.yellow-rose.netDate added 2/27/2010

Company B

Private

No family notes have been added.
Contributor Stephen Moyers WoodardDate added 6/24/2015

Company B

Private

Leonard V. Hudson enlisted in the 28th Reg Alabama Infantry at Shelby Springs, Alabama in 1862. It has been documented that he was shot in the head on or about May 28, 1864 at the Battle of New Hope Church in Paulding County, Georgia. We assume that he is buried at the Paulding Cemetery. Leonard left behind a wife and 6 children, one of which was born after he left to go to war. He also left behind a farm consisting of several hundred acres of farmland, a home he built with his own hands, a barn full of livestock and a legacy that still stands today.
Contributor RoseDate added 7/26/2026

Company B

Private

Birth: ABT 1846 in Blount Co. Alabama Death: 23 Jun 1931 in Blount Co. Alabama Was wounded at Battle of Chickamauga John and Susan are buried at Moody's Chapel. Father: Thomas JACKSON b: ABT 1822 Mother: Ann TOLBERT b: in Straight Mountain, Alabama Marriage 1 Susan FORTNER Married: 19 Dec 1862 in Blount County, Alabama Sealing Spouse: 19 Dec 1862 in Married by Samuel Smith at her home in Blount Co. Note: John J. Jackson served in the CSA. Camehome on furlough where he married Susan
Contributor Adam JordanDate added 8/1/2007

Company B

Private

No family notes have been added.
Contributor Ashley BartonDate added 1/27/2011

Company B

Private

No family notes have been added.
Contributor Luke BroersmaDate added 8/4/2010

Company B

Rank unknown

No family notes have been added.
Contributor Stephen WoodardDate added 8/9/2023

Company B

Sergeant

No family notes have been added.
Contributor Stephen Moyers WoodardHomepage Givem Tha Cold Steel BoysDate added 4/18/2011

Company B

Private

Elijah died of 'fever' on July 23, 1862 and is buried at Gainesville, Alabama.
Contributor Steve IngleDate added 7/26/2005

Company B

Private

ggg uncle.
Contributor Curtis L WhitedDate added 5/15/2018

Company C

1st Lieutenant

No family notes have been added.
Contributor Wm. Haines ChildsDate added 5/10/2008

Company C

Private

No family notes have been added.
Contributor Larry MortonHomepage www.theheca.orgDate added 4/19/2013

Company C

Private

Birth: 12 Nov 1824 in Georgia Death: Unknown in unknown (GA or AR) Sex: M Father: Edmond Smithwick b. 1789 in South Carolina Mother: Piety Skinner b. 1790 in North Carolina Burial: Unknown unknown (GA or AR) Military Service: Confederate States of America, Company C, 28th Alamaba Infantry, Private LETTER from William Smithwick to his sister Sarah Kirk written to her during the war. The Letter: 'Shelbyville Tenisee June 17th 1863 Dear sister I enbrace this present opportunity of riting to you & I can say to you that I am well & it is my desire that these few lines will come to your hand & find you all well & doing well. Well sister this is the first letter that I have rit to you sence I have bin in the army. Sarah I have not forgot you by no maeans but so much hardships that I have had to under go & do yet. I don'y have much spiret to rite to no body. Sister if yoy have thought hard off me for not riting to you you must forgive me. Sarah I cant discribe to you all the hardships & difficulties that poor solgers have to (?) live threw. You may be shure it is all bad a nough. Sarah I am sorry to say that we do not get a nough to eat but we can make out to live on it but we suffer a heap off times. Sister we ar fortifying hear for another fite we have 29 miles of brestworks nearly completed now if we do fite hear it will be a big fite. Murphee burough was a small one to what this one will be. We had only temperary works ther put up the nite before the fite commenced in the morning. Well Sarah I received a letter from Meary & Mother yestarday they were all well & I recin getting a long tollerable well. Sister I am mity tierd of this wicked war I do hope & trus that it will come to a close shortly & let the poor solgers go home & help ther wives provide for ther little children & enjoy each others company as they hane don in dayes that is past & gon. When I get to thinking over these things I hardly have good sence it appears to me. But sister I must give you some off my feeling Mother and Mary was a fraid I wood take up with bad habits hear in the army but I thank God that I have not yet & I have no desire to in dulge in open wickedness. & I can say to you that God blesses me hear often times & I can ask his blessing on me hear as well as I could at home. & Sarah if I am not permitted to see you no more hear on earth try & get to heavin for that is the place I am trying to reach & by the help of God let us try to be a family ther like we was with father and mother this is my great desire and prar to almity God. So I remain your brother for ever. (from Mike Hardage, descendant of Eve Kirk)
Contributor Kim Wright McCartyHomepage http://www.gencircles.com/users/strickland/1/data/65Date added 9/18/2009

Company D

Private

No family notes have been added.
Contributor Patricia Goldsmith-SandersDate added 1/5/2006

Company D

Private

No family notes have been added.
Contributor Patricia Goldsmith-SandersDate added 1/5/2006

Company D

Private

No family notes have been added.
Contributor Patricia Goldsmith-SandersDate added 1/5/2006

Company D

Private

Enlisted Feb 6, 1862. Mortally wounded. List of casualties 1/28/1863. Pension application by widow Susan E. Loveless.
Contributor Benny R GordonDate added 7/28/2008

Company D

Private

Enlisted Feb 6, 1862.
Contributor Benny R GordonDate added 7/28/2008

Company D

3rd Sergeant

No family notes have been added.
Contributor CharlesDate added 1/20/2010

Company D

Private

No family notes have been added.
Contributor Patricia Goldsmith-SandersDate added 4/24/2006

Company D

Rank unknown

No family notes have been added.
Contributor HomerDate added 1/22/2011

Company E

Rank unknown

Born in 1830 - Jasper County, Georgia; Died - October 9, 1864 - Rock Island Conferderate Prison; Buried - Rock Island Conferderate Cemetery - Rock Island, IL
Contributor Richard H. McDuffDate added 5/20/2007

Company E

2nd Lieutenant

No family notes have been added.
Contributor Stephen Moyers WoodardHomepage Givem Tha Cold Steel BoysDate added 1/1/2011

Company F

Corporal

George Washington Manasco enl: Co 'F' 28th Al Inf Regt on 22 Feb 1862 at Jaspper, Al. Was captured at Missionary Ridge, Ga on 23 Nov 1863 and taken to Rock Island, Ill. Paroled and Exchanged just 19 days before Gen Lee surrendered in 1865.
Contributor John R. ManascoDate added 12/5/2010

Company F

Sergeant

I have lots of data collected online from those available from Ancestry.com, Folds3, and newspapers. I would like for my gg-grandfather to be listed...thx! sandra
Contributor Sandra StanleyDate added 9/10/2015

Company G

Private

No family notes have been added.
Contributor Patricia Goldsmith-SandersDate added 2/10/2007

Company G

Private

William Alfred Fields born 11/15/1839 died 01/09/1913. Buried at Cluster Springs Cemetery Fields Town Alabama near Gardendale Alabama. Info. by his great grandson.
Contributor Jerry R. KelleyDate added 8/12/2008

Company G

Private

Died at Corinth, MS, 1862
Contributor Hugh G. Glasgow, III.Date added 11/12/2009

Company G

1st Corporal

William has four cards in his archival file. He was from Jefferson Co. Alabama and was 34 years old. He enlisted in Capt. Miller's Company,Frazer's Regiment, Alabama Vol's. Enlisted by Lt. Col. J.C. Reid for three years or the war. William was dead a few months later. His wife Cincinnati Smith filed for settlement on 2 Oct. 1862. A search of his regimental history might shed some light on his death. Deo Vindice The light does shine!!! A review of Williams Company Record of Events reveals that his company arrived at Corinth Miss. on 23rd of April 1862 and was encamped 1/2 mile from town. They were there when the Union siege began in May. It is 99% sure that he died in that Siege.
Contributor Phillip ThomasDate added 9/18/2015

Company G

Private

James was born 22 Mar 1835 in probably the York District of South Carolina. He enlisted 26th Feb 1862 in Jefferson Co. Alabama in Capt. Millers Company, Frazier's Regiment Ala. Vol's. Sworn in by Capt. Reid and mustered at Shelby Springs, Ala. He served honorably thru out the illegal invasion and the last card in his file shows that he reenlisted 4 April 1864 at camp, near Dalton, Georgia. He died 13 June 1898 at Cullman, Cullman County, Ala. He is buried in Sardis #2 Missionary Baptist Church in Winston Co. Ala.
Contributor Phillip ThomasDate added 5/12/2023

Company G

Private

Jasper Wheeler, son of Jonas C Wheeler of Jefferson County, AL, a settler of the 'New Georgia Colony', was killed while on duty in Mississippi in 1864.
Contributor Robert E HillDate added 2/11/2011

Company H

Private

No family notes have been added.
Contributor Roxanne JordanDate added 1/8/2014

Company H

Rank unknown

No family notes have been added.
Contributor Nancy Liles MilesDate added 2/7/2011

Company H

Musician

Monty was abt 14 years old when he joined Co H as a Musician in Jasper County Alabama. The Company Muster Roll is the only surviving record. Enlisting on 15 Feb 1862. Commanding officer Col. Reid. He is the husband of my 4th cousin 3 x removed named Sarah Elizabeth Crowe. She was 8 years older and Monty was her third husband. He survived the war and died in Alabama after 1936.
Contributor Phillip ThomasDate added 5/19/2017

Company H

Private

No family notes have been added.
Contributor Roxanne JordanDate added 1/8/2014

Company H

Private

my maternal ggg uncle Hilliard Parsons (1844-1863),served in Confederate Co. H, 28th Regiment during Civil War. He died in that war March 30,1863 Co. 'H' the mighty 28th Alabama Inf, Jefferson County:
Contributor Dan McConnellDate added 8/23/2010

Company H

Private

No family notes have been added.
Contributor Roxanne JordanDate added 1/8/2014

Company H

Private

No family notes have been added.
Contributor Roxanne JordanDate added 1/8/2014

Company H

Private

No family notes have been added.
Contributor Stephen Moyers WoodardHomepage Givem Tha Cold Steel BoysDate added 11/3/2015

Company I

Private

No family notes have been added.
Contributor Karen Kitchens MurphyDate added 9/16/2010

Company I

Private

Captured at Stones River, TN and went to Camp Douglas, Chicago, IL
Contributor Matt AndersonDate added 6/5/2005

Company J

Private

hard to read if company J or I married to Emily Kitchens
Contributor Vickie Manning CarmichaelDate added 7/27/2012

Company K

Private

William M Foster was my Gr Gr Grandfather. He enlisted in Co K at Perryville Perry Co AL Mar 29, 1862. He was born in Bibb Co AL his parents Thomas Sr & Ginsey [Fowler] Foster, moved to Coosa Co. By 1860 Wm was in Perry with his family, his brother's and many cousins in Coosa Co AL. It may be that Williams M Foster served with family members in another unit from Coosa, then joined up with the Co K, in Perry Co in 1862, Wm Foster is the only Wm Foster in Perry Co on the 1860 census, he joined with his next door neighbor, T. B. Gay. On the same day and Company. Wm was injured in the hip in 1863, from the timeline I gather it was at Murfreesboro TN. It was listed as a slight injury, I do not know if it disabled him... Wm's wife had passed down, via family lore, that Wm was shot on his porch, in 1865, in Perry Co, by a passing Union soldier, after a heated verbal battle. Wm's brothers, Thomas Jr, James, Richard were all killed in the Civil War, in addition to 3 of his 4 sisters, husbands, one married twice during the war, and she lost both husbands, so, I can believe 'a heated exchange of words... '. Some family members have stated he was killed at Centerville, when a group of 3,000 veterans were enroute to Mobile to help in fighting off the Union invasion there... I have speculated that Wm returned home, after the 28th service at Nashville, when the unit was badly destroyed, as some joined other units and surrendered at Durham Station NC, at the end of the war...
Contributor Mike WhiteDate added 12/18/2005

Company K

Private

Mathew enlisted 3/1/1862. Never heard from after that date.
Contributor SharonDate added 3/6/2008

Company K

Private

Henry Harrison Lewis Enlistment Date: Mar 10, 1862 Age 21 Occupation: Farmer Engagements: Wounded: Atlanta, Georgia, July 22, 1864 Badly wounded at Kennesaw Mountain, Ga. June 18, 1864; transferred to Barbour County Aug 1, 1864; Feb 4, 1839-Oct 10, 1914, Loss of Right arm, other injuries Pension Rec: Yes Authority: Maimed Soldiers Record, State Auditor Book I, Page 4 Buried Mt. Zion Church Cemetery, NW of Louisville, Barbour County.
Contributor Linda StringerDate added 12/4/2012

Company K

Private

No family notes have been added.
Contributor Barbara NorkavageDate added 2/22/2010

Company K

Corporal

No family notes have been added.
Contributor Charles WattersDate added 10/9/2011

Company L

Private

He was captured at Orchard Knob in November 1863 and released from Rock Island about April 1865
Contributor Roger ApplingDate added 8/17/2018

Company L

Sergeant

No family notes have been added.
Contributor Stephen Moyers WoodardHomepage Givem Tha Cold Steel BoysDate added 12/4/2010

Company L

Private

Andrew has 12 Cards in his archival file. He is my 3rd cousin 4x removed. His Colonial roots begin in 1666 on the Eastern Shore of Maryland with his distant ancestor Tristram Thomas. Andrew entered into Confederate Service on 17 March 1862 from Jasper Co. Ala., for the same reasons his many ancestors fought foreign invaders during the American Revolution. He was captured on 23 Nov.1863 at Chattanooga, Tenn. and sent to Louisville, Ky. and on to Rock Island Ill. He survived the assault on his homeland and died 20 Oct. 1918 at Jasper,Walker Co. Ala. NOTE* His regimental history of Co L is documented in his regimental history's 104 pages on page 100 - 104.
Contributor Phillip ThomasDate added 9/16/2015

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