[142] February 6, 1864. [See Extracts under Third regiment.] (1176) General Winder, February 15, 1864, orders Colonel O'Neal's regiment to furnish guards to convey prisoners to Camp Sumter, Ga. No. 66—（484, 487) General Cooper, May 14, 1864, orders Twenty-sixth Alabama, then at Andersonville, to be sent to Dalton. (496) Twenty-sixth Alabama has left Andersonville for Montgomery, May 22d, before order to go to Richmond arrived. No. 67—（1024) Reported as belonging to Battle's brigade, Rodes' division, army of Northern Virginia, May, 1864. No. 68—（1011) Twenty-sixth Alabama, Colonel O'Neal, ordered to proceed immediately to Richmond, May 5, 1864. No. 74—（646, 653, 665, 671) In Cantey's brigade, army of Mississippi, June to August, 1864. （940) Colonel O'Neal (commanding brigade), reporting battle of June 27th, says: ‘The enemy attempted to charge our line of skirmishers commanded by Capt. Sid. B. Smith, but did not succeed in approaching more than from 30 to 100 yards and were handsomely driven back. In this affair we had none killed and but 8 wounded. Captain Smith, his officers and men behaved with great gallantry and firmly held their line.’ （941,942) Colonel O'Neal's report of engagement at Peachtree Creek, July 20th, gives loss 279 killed, wounded and missing. (942,943) Colonel O'Neal's report of engagement, July 28th, says: ‘I cannot close this report without acknowledging my obligations to Capt. Sid. B. Smith, acting on my staff.’ List of casualties, which was large, not found. No. 75—（704, 728, 762) Col. E. A. O'Neal ordered to report with his regiment to General Johnston. No. 93—（666) In Cantey's brigade, General Shelley commanding, Walthall's division, army of Tennessee, Gen. J. B. Hood commanding, December 10, 1864. No. 100—（773) General order, No. 13, April 9, 1865, leaves regiment in Shelley's brigade, near Smithfield, N. C. No. 104—（1134) Gen. P. D. Roddey, March 20, 1865, says he had requested transfer of regiment to his command.
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