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No. 78, No. 93—Assignment as above, to December 10, 1864..
No. 98—(1063) With army in North Carolina.
After April 9, 1865, the Twenty-ninth was commanded by Maj. Henry B. Turner, in Lowrey's brigade, Stewart's corps.
No. 100–(735) Consolidated with First and Seventeenth, Capt. Benj. H. Screws, Quarles' brigade, Walthall's division, Stewart's corps. (773) General Johnston, near Smithfield, N. C., announces change in assignments, Twenty-ninth to be in Shelley's brigade.
The Thirtieth Alabama infantry
The Thirtieth was organized at
Talladega in April, 1862, and reported for service at
Chattanooga.
It was later brigaded under
General Tracy with the Twentieth, Twenty-third, Thirty-first and Forty-sixth Alabama regiments.
It took part in the fights at
Tazewell and
Cumberland Gap, and went into
Kentucky; then being sent to
Mississippi, fought at
Port Gibson, May 1, 1863, with severe loss, making a brilliant record there and at
Baker's Creek; it was captured when
Vicksburg fell, after having suffered untold hardships.
When paroled, it recruited and joined the army near
Chattanooga.
It fought at
Rocky Face and at
Resaca, and was in the van of the army in the
Tennessee campaign of the
fall and
winter of 1864.
At New Hope, May, 1864;
Atlanta, July 22d, and
Jonesboro, the regiment lost heavily; but it suffered still more severely at
Nashville, whence it formed the rear guard in returning to
Duck river.
The regiment was transferred to the Carolinas, fought at
Kinston and
Bentonville, March 19, 1865, surrendering at last at
Greensboro, with about 100 men. This regiment was noted for the number of its field officers killed.
Its field officers were
Col. Charles M. Shelley, who was made brigadier-general and who afterward served in the
United States House of Representatives;
Col. James K. Elliott, wounded at
Bentonville;
Lieut.-Cols. Paul Bradford, who resigned;
A. J. Smith, who was killed at
Vicksburg;