10 Alabama Infantry History

Henry's widow, Amanda (Andrews) Hall, moved to Rome to be with the Andrews following his death, and she received $113.50 "backpay" from the CSA's Treasury Department in 1864. Family records also indicate that Amanda was a hospital nurse for the Confederacy.

Amanda Hall moved to Provo, Utah with the Andrews family in 1869 and later remarried.

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10th Alabama Voltr. Infantry History

The 10th Alabama Infantry was organized at Montgomery, 4 June 1861, with men recruited from Calhoun, De Kalb, Jefferson, Saint Clair, Shelby, and Talladega counties. It went to Virginia a month later. When it arrived at Winchester, it was brigaded under Gen'l Edmund Kirby Smith with the 9th and 11th Alabama, 19th Mississippi, and 38th Virginia regiments. It saw no active service for several months and lay near Manassas and Centerville with Gen'l Cadmus M. Wilcox in command of the brigade.

It was doing some detached duty when attacked at Dranesville where it lost 21 k and 64 w. The regiment marched to the peninsula and was shelled at Yorktown. It fought at Williamsburg and there lost 85 k and w. Held in reserve at Seven Pines, it suffered lightly. The 10th took a conspicuous part in the battles of Gaines' Mill and Frazier's Farm but lost over 200 casualties. It was at 2nd Manassas and lost 30 casualties. Under fire at Harper's Ferry, it marched rapidly to Sharpsburg; there its casualty rate was greater than 50% of the 200 men present. During the winter of 1862-1863, the 10th was on the Rappahannock and saw some active duty, suffering lightly at Hazel River and Fredericksburg. It sustained the shock of Sedgwick's Corps at Salem; of the 400 men engaged, 120 were casualties (brigade losses were 441). At Gettysburg, the 10th was present with 450 men and lost 175 k and w. The 10th spent the winter of 1863-1864 near Orange Court House and was later engaged at The Wilderness and Spotsylvania, losing about 50 casualties in the former and about 60 in the latter. It was engaged at 2nd Cold Harbor (losses were 20), and in the months of June through August, 1864, it participated in the struggles around Petersburg, with severe losses. At Hatcher's Run, it lost between 15 and 20 casualties, and about 30 at High Bridge and Farmville on the retreat to Appomattox. There the regiment surrendered 10 commissioned officers and 208 men. Of the 1429 names on the muster rolls, nearly 300 were killed or mortally wounded. Another 180 died of disease and 249 were discharged or transferred.

Field and staff officers: Cols. John Horace Forney (Calhoun; wounded, Dranesville; promoted); John J. Woodward (Talladega; KIA Gaines' Mill); William Henry Forney (Calhoun; wounded, Williamsburg and captured; wounded, Gettysburg; promoted); William Thomas Smith (St. Clair); Lt. Cols. Arthur Sinclair Cunningham (temporary); James Benson Martin (Talladega; KIA, Drainesville, 20 Dec 61); John J. Woodward (promoted); William Henry Forney; John Henry Caldwell (St. Clair, resigned, 10 June 63); James E. Shelley (Talladega; wounded, Spotsylvania; KIA, Petersburg); William Thomas Smith; Lewis W. Johnson; Majors Taul Bradford (Talladega; resigned, 21 Aug 61); John W. Woodward; William H. Forney; John H. Caldwell; James Davis Truss (St. Clair; promoted); Louis W. Johnson and Adjutants James B. Martin (retired, 15 Nov 61); James E. Shelley (promoted); L. W. Grant; and William W. Draper (acting)

Captains, and counties from which the companies came:

•Co. "A", Ashville Guards (St. Clair): John H. Caldwell (promoted); Wilson L. Brewster (resigned, 2 June 64); Samuel A. Wyatt (resigned); Leroy F. Box

•Co. "B", Jefferson Volunteers (Jefferson): Alberto Martin (wounded, 2nd Manassas; resigned, 18 June 63); William A. McMillion (wounded, Gettysburg; resigned, 22 March 65); Thomas J. Hickman (wounded, High Bridge)

•Co. "C", Cahaba Valley Boys (Shelby): Rufus W. Cobb (resigned, 11 June 62); William M. Lee (KIA, Gaines' Mill); Andrew M. Moore (died in service, 6 Sept 64); Lt. John T. Wilson

•Co. "D", Alexandria Rifle Company (Calhoun): Franklin C. Woodruff (resigned, 14 July 62); Richard C. Rogan (resigned, 9 May 64); Franklin M. Allen (resigned); Lt. Thomas H. Martin

•Co. "E", Talladega Davis Blues (Talladega): John J. Woodward (promoted); Walter Cook (KIA, Salem Church, 21 May 63); James E. Shelley (promoted); Louis W. Johnson (promoted); William W. Draper

•Co. "F" (St. Clair): James Davis Truss (promoted); William T. Smith (wounded, Spotsylvania, Petersburg; promoted); B. F. Sides

•Co. "G", Pope Walker Guards (Calhoun): James B. Martin; William H. Forney (wounded, Drainesville; promoted); George C. Whatley (KIA, Sharpsburg); James B. Farmer (wounded, Gaines' Mill; resigned, 28 Nov 64); John A. Cobb (wounded, The Wilderness; resigned); James M. Renfro (wounded, Reams' Station); Lt. Thomas J. Walker

•Co. "H" (Calhoun): Woodford R. Hanna (resigned, 26 July 62); Francis Pickens Black (KIA, 1st Cold Harbor); A. T. Martin

•Co. "I" (DeKalb): Abner A. Hughes (promoted to colonel, 48th AL Regt); Caleb W. Brewton (resigned, 30 Nov 64); Robert W. Cowan (KIA, Gaines' Mill); Lemuel E. Hamlin (wounded, Sharpsburg; retired, 5 Nov 64); Simson G. Yeargain (wounded, Gettysburg); Lt. Thomas Christian

•Co. "K" (Talladega): John C. McKenzie (wounded, Frazier's Farm; resigned, 20 Dec 62); John Oden (wounded, Sharpsburg; resigned, 20 June 63); Motte C. Calhoun (resigned 19 Aug 63); Henry N. Coleman (KIA, Petersburg); Simon J. Morriss

From: "Confederate Military History," vol. VII and "I Saw The Elephant - Bailey G. McClelen, Company D, 10th Alabama Infantry Regiment." (see below)

Related links and books:

Letters from Charles W. Foust, Co B 10th Alabama Infantry

10th Alabama Infantry history

Wilcox Brigade Monument at Gaines' Mill, Va., June 27, 1862

"I Saw The Elephant - Bailey G. McClelen, Company D, 10th Alabama Infantry Regiment," edited by Norman E. Rourke, c. 1995, White Mane Publ. Co., 50 pp.

"Rose of Alabamy" midi is by Barry Taylor, courtesy of the Poetry and Music of the WBTS

Henry Hall was my great-grandfather's brother-in-law. Henry was born in Georgia, and later moved to Alabama. He married Amanda Andrews (William J. Andrews' sister) on May 18, 1855, in Rome, Georgia, by a justice of the peace named John Payne.
Click thumbnail image at right for larger image: Henry and Amanda Hall had two children: Elizabeth (born on July 4, 1856 in Floyd County, Georgia), and Martha Frances (born on June 24, 1858 in Shelby, Alabama).
Henry joined Captain James Davis Truss' Company F of the 10th Alabama Infantry from St. Clair County, as a private. Records indicate that Henry was 25 years old, stood 5 ft 11 inches tall, had gray eyes, dark hair, and dark complexion, and was a farmer at the time of his enlistment. Captain James Truss was a member of a well-known family in eastern Jefferson and St. Clair Counties in Alabama. The city of Trussville (which antedates Birmingham by 50 years) was named for the Truss family. Company "F" enrolled at Cropwell, Ala. oN June 4, 1861, and entered service as the "Coosa Valley Blues." The 10th Alabama Infantry was formally organized at Montgomery on June 4, 1861, with John H. Forney as its Colonel. Captain Truss was later promoted to Major. The 10th Alabama Regiment served as part of Gen. Cadmus Wilcox's Brigade. Throughout its whole career this regiment was singularly distinguished for its dash and courage, and the great losses that it sustained in every battle.