60th Alabama Infantry Regiment

60th Alabama Infantry Regiment
60th Alabama Infantry Regiment
	Flag of Alabama in 1861 (obverse and reverse)
Active	November 25, 1863 to April 9, 1865
Country	Confederate States of America
Allegiance	Alabama
Branch	Confederate States Army
Type	Infantry
Size	Regiment
Engagements	American Civil War Siege of Knoxville; Battle of Bean's Station; Battle of Dandridge; Battle of Chester Station; Battle of Drewry's Bluff; Siege of Petersburg Battle of the Crater; ; Battle of Hatcher's Run; Battle of White Oak Road; Battle of Appomattox Court House;
Commanders
Notable; commanders	Col. John W. A. Sanford

The 60th Alabama Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment of the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. The regiment was formed on November 25, 1863 at Charleston, Tennessee by consolidating four companies of the 1st Battalion and the 3rd Battalion, Hilliard's Alabama Legion.^[1]

The regiment served in Gracie's Alabama Brigade in the Department of East Tennessee and later the Army of Northern Virginia.

The regiment surrendered at Appomattox Courthouse on April 9, 1865.

Notes

Lewellyn A. Shaver History of the Sixtieth Alabama Regiment, Gracie's Alabama Brigade
Stewart Sifakis. Compendium of the Confederate Armies: Alabama. Facts on File, NY 1992 ISBN 0-8160-2287-9

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