The Fourth Alabama Painting by Don Troiani

Third Brigade, Army of the Shenandoah

Lieutenant Colonel E M Law

Lieutenant Colonel E M Law, 4th Alabama Infantry

Fourth Alabama Infantry

COLONEL E J JONES
LIEUTENANT COLONEL E M LAW
MAJOR C L SCOTT

Company A Governor's Guards: CAPT. T J GOLDSBY
Company B Tuskegee Zouaves: CAPT. T B DRYER
Ordered to Pensacola, Florida, on 7 January, 1861, and attached to the 2nd (afterwards 3rd) Alabama Infantry. On its return to Macon County the company was assigned to the regiment on 2 May, 1861.
Company C The Magnolia Cadets: CAPT. N H R DAWSON
Company D Canebrake Rifles: CAPT. R CLARKE
Company E Conecuh Guards: CAPT. P D BOWLES
Company F Huntsville Guards: CAPT. G B MARTIN
Company G Marion Light Infantry: CAPT. P KING
Company H Lauderdale Guards: CAPT. R MCFARLAND
Company I The North Alabamians: CAPT. E D TRACY
Company K Larkinsville Guards: CAPT. L E LINDSAY

Sources

"As the men were so intensely anxious to meet the enemy, they preferred going on the earliest possible moment; the 4th Alabama, two companies of the 11th and the 2nd Mississippi (Generals Johnston and Bee accompanying us) reached the Junction about noon on the 20th. The remainder of the Army of the Shenandoah, consisting of 6th North Carolina and 1st Tennessee of our brigade, Colonel Elzey's brigade incharge of General E Kirby Smith, together with the remaining regiments of Colonel Bartow's command, failing to secure transportation by rail from Piedmont in time, did not reach the battlefield until the evening of the 21st, although the President of the railway promised General Johnston to have them all there by 20th."

From Huntsville to Appomattox: R T Cole's History of 4th Regiment, Alabama Volunteer Infantry, C S A, Army of Northern Virginia, edited by Jeffrey D Stocker

Alabama, her history, resources, war record, and public men from 1540 to 1872, by Willis Brewer

Notes

The 4th Alabama Infantry was organised at Dalton, Georgia, on 2 May, 1861, and reorganised at Dumfries in April 1862.

At 1 AM on 18 July, 1861, the War Department at Richmond ordered General J E Johnston to move the Army of the Shenandoah from Winchester to Manassas Junction. Brigadier General B E Bee's brigade reached Piedmont Station after sundown on 19 July. Only the 4th Alabama Infantry, the 2nd Mississippi Infantry and the right wing companies, A and K of the 11th Mississippi Infantry boarded the boxcars and cattle cars. The regiments with General J E Johnston arrived at Manassas Junction around noon on 20 July. The remaining eight companies of the 11th Mississippi Infantry with Colonel W H Moore, the two Kentucky battalions, under the command of Lieutenant Colonel T Claiborne, the 1st Tennessee Infantry and the 1st Texas Battalion Infantry, left shortly after Brigadier General E K Smith's command but suffered a collision. Sometime later the regiments flagged a freight train and arrived at Manassas Junction late in the afternoon on 21 July, 1861.

On 25 July 1861, the Army of the Shenandoah was reorganised and the regiment was assigned to the Third Brigade, Second Corps, Army of the Potomac, under the command of Brigadier General W H C Whiting.

Report

REPORTS TO ADDENDUM: Series I, Volume 2, pp 171–174
Senior Captain T J Goldsby, Company A, Fourth Alabama Infantry