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AlmightyOdin34
01-11-2016, 02:22 AM
Welcome to the Forum page of the 8th Alabama C Company! Feel free to browse our page and add Odin or Venom for joining or questions! We look forward to playing this great game and are always in need of recruits!

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Battle of Williamsburg and Seven Pines

The Emerald Guard was the first Alabama Unit to enlist "for the war". The 8th was organized by the appointment of its field officers by the war department. The Regiment was posted at Yorktown, Virginia during the first eleven months of its service, and a detachment of the 8th was engaged in a skirmish near Winn's Mill. Placed in General Pryor's brigade, the regiment fell back with the army until the enemy overtook it at Williamsburg. The Regiment won its first laurels on that contested field, losing approximately 100 men. At Seven Pines it was again under fire, and received heavy losses - 32 killed, 80 wounded, and 32 missing.

Battle of Gaines' Mill and Fraizer's Farm

Now in the brigade of General Wilcox, with the Ninth, Tenth, Eleventh, and Fourteenth Alabama regiments, the Eighth took part in a desperate assault with General Longstreet's division on the enemy's position at Gaines' Mill, and emerged victoriously from the fierce battle with the loss of half of the 350 men it had engaged. Three days later, the regiment was in the line of assault at Frazier's Farm, where the Emerald Guard met Meagher's Irish brigade, and of 180 effective men, only 90 were at regimental muster the next morning. Its ranks soon began to fill up, and the Eighth marched with the Army towards the Potomac.

Battle of Manassas

At the second battle of Manassas, the 8th Alabama lost 60 men, but was held in reserve. The regiment took part in the capture of Harper's Ferry, then crossed the river and fought fearlessly at Sharpsburg, where the 8th lost 67 men. The Emerald Guard's wintered at Rappahannock. At Salem Church, Wilcox's brigade of Alabamans, of which the 8th was a part, bore the brunt of the federal assault, and drove them back in confusion, capturing 1500 prisoners; the Eighth lost 58 men.

Battle of Gettysburg

General Lee led the Eighth Alabama and the rest of the Army of Northern Virginia into Maryland, and the 8th's colors were flouted in the face of death at Gettysburg; where 260 of 420 engaged died. The Army of Northern Virginia crossed the Potomac again, and wintered in the vicinity of Orange C.H. The regiment was engaged at Wilderness and at Spottsylvania as well.


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Rank Structure

Commissioned Officers

• Captain (Cpt.) http://i.imgur.com/Y7Bai6q.png
• First Lieutenant (1stLt.) http://i.imgur.com/TyRwxFy.png
• Second Lieutenant (2ndLt.) http://i.imgur.com/66R9oFA.png
Non-Commissioned Officers

• Sergeant Major (SgtMaj.) http://i.imgur.com/QsOpQMb.png
• Company Quartermaster Sergeant (CQSgt.) http://i.imgur.com/ABzrdWB.png
• First Sergeant (1stSgt.) http://i.imgur.com/LAFEpRT.png
• Sergeant (Sgt.) http://i.imgur.com/UVFIyYs.png
Enlisted

• Corporal (Cpl.) http://i.imgur.com/CHxsmjZ.png
• Private (Pvt.)
• Recruit (Rct.)

*Thanks to Cpt MacMillan for the rank Icons!*


Roster
Commissioned Officers
Captain
- Odin

1st Lieutenant
- Vacant

2nd Lieutenant
- Vacant

Non Commissioned Officers
Sergeant Major
- Vacant

Company Quartermaster Sergeant
- Vacant

1st Sergeant
- Venomkiller

Sergeant
- Vacant

Corporal
- Vacant

Enlisted

Private
- None
Recruit
- None




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Credit to Kraxous, thank you for your help in the creation of the 8th Alabama Regiment's Pages

[Size=3]Forum InfoCompany Name - Company C "Alex Stephen's Guards"

Faction - Army of Northern Virginia (CSA).

Class - Line Infantry

Based - North America

Thread Link - http://www.warofrightsforum.com/showthread.php?1184-8th-Alabama-Company-C-quot-Alex-Stephen-s-Guards-quot

A. P. Hill
01-11-2016, 02:54 AM
Welcome Alabama to the CSA!

Mississippi
01-11-2016, 07:39 AM
Welcome to the Confederacy!

AlmightyOdin34
09-30-2016, 04:02 PM
**** big thank you to kraxous for his help with the 8th alabama regiment pages ***

AlmightyOdin34
09-30-2016, 04:06 PM
Updated and Improved ****

Grant97
10-05-2016, 01:14 PM
Welcome! Best of luck to all of you :) See you on the battlefield ;)

AlmightyOdin34
10-05-2016, 03:05 PM
Thanks! You too!