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Col. O. M. Roberts, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 12.1, Alabama (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Battles of the Western army in which Albama troops were engaged. (search)
as at Cane Creek. Little River, Ala., Oct 21. Gen. Jos. Wheeler. Round Mt. Iron Works, Ala., Oct. 22. Gen. Jos. Wheeler; total loss 20.—Federal, total loss 60. Alabama troops, same as at Cane Creek. Turkeytown Rd., Ala., Oct. 23. Gen. Jos. Wheeler; total loss 7.— Federal, total loss 25. Alabama troops, same as at Cane Creek. Turkeytown, Ala., Oct. 24. Gen. Jos. Wheeler; total loss 25.—Federal, total loss 70. Alabama troops, same as at Cane Creek. Near Gadsden, Ala., Oct. 25. Gen. Jos. Wheeler; total loss 30.— Federal, total loss 110. Alabama troops, same as at Cane Creek. Near Goshen, Ala., Oct. 26. Gen. Jos. Wheeler; total loss 7.—Federal, total loss 40. Alabama troops, same as at Cane Creek. Big Shanty and Ackworth, Ga., Oct. 2. Gens. Stewart and Loring.— Federal, loss 420 m. Alabama troops, 1st, 55th, 57th, 26th, 27th, 29th Inf.; 56th Cav.; Lumsden's, Selden's, Tarrant's Battrs. Allatoona, Ga., Oct. 5. Gen. French.—Federal, Gen. Cor
Col. O. M. Roberts, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 12.1, Alabama (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Biographical. (search)
ed by a term of service in the Mexican war. At the opening of the Confederate war he was a commission merchant in Mobile. He offered his services to the Confederate government and was assigned to duty on the staff of Gen. Joseph E. Johnston, serving in that capacity at the first battle of Manassas. Then obtaining authority to raise a regiment, with the assistance of Maj. Robert B. Armistead, he recruited the Twenty-second Alabama, at its organization was elected colonel, and commissioned October 25, 1 86 . At that time there were not arms enough in the Confederacy to supply the men who enlisted. So Colonel Deas paid out of his own means $28,000 in gold for 800 Enfield rifles, and equipped his own regiment. In return for this service the Confederate government, one year later, gave him that amount of Confederate bonds. At Shiloh he led his regiment until General Gladden, brigade commander, and Col. Wirt Adams were borne wounded from the field, on the first day, when he took command