ebooks The Seventeenth Alabama Infantry: A Regimental History and Roster by Illene D. Thompson in History

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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Thorough Informational sourceBy James D. DavisSeems to be a very thorough account of the unit and gave me information on my ancestor that I had not been able to find with other sources.4 of 4 people found the following review helpful. Excellent Confederate history and genealogy sourceBy Annie CrenshawIllene Thompson and her husband; the late Wilbur Thompson of Huntsville; Alabama; worked years researching Confederate soldiers who served in the 17th Alabama Infantry during the American Civil War; 1861-1865. The biographical sections on each soldier reflect extensive research in original sources and great attention to detail. Each soldier's entry may include alternate names and initials; dates and places of birth; death and burial; military service such as whether wounded; hospitalized; reported missing; captured; killed in action or death from other causes; and more. For anyone researching families in Butler; Lowndes and Montgomery counties and the surrounding south Alabama area who had men serving in the Confederacy; this is a great source book. For those of you interested in military history; the accounts of orders and deployments; leaders and soldiers; camps; marches; skirmishes and battles involving the 17th Alabama provide fascinating eye-witness history with quotes from original letters; diaries and other contemporary documents.