From Huntsville to Appomattox

by R. T. Coles

The 4th Alabama Volunteer Infantry was among the most famous and hardest fighting regiments in the Civil War - and one of the few military units to see action in both the western and eastern theaters of the conflict. As part of Lee's Army of Northern Virginia, it fought in every major engagement in the East - Manassas, Antietam, Fredericksburg, Gettysburg - before joining General James Longstreet's First Corps in the West for such battles as Chickamauga and Knoxville. Returning to Lee's fold for the bloody campaign of 1864, the regiment saw the war through to its conclusion at Appomattox. This book represents the first publication, in its entirety, of Robert T. Coles's stirring history of the 4th Alabama. As the regiment's adjutant, Coles had intimate access to its day-to-day functions and decision-making processes, including its relationships with other Confederate units. His account not only details battles and strategies but captures the human drama of soldiers engaged in front-line