Art Green Honored

   In December 2007 the Mobile Bay District of The United Daughters of the Confederacy presented Arthur E. Green the highest award given to a non-member - the Jefferson Davis Historical Gold Medal Award.

Green was honored for "preserving Confederate history by researching, writing and publishing Southerners at War - the 38th Alabama Infantry; Gracie's Pride - the 43rd Alabama Infantry; Too Little Too Late - the 63rd Alabama Infantry CSA with roster of some companies of the 89th, 94th, and 95th Alabama Militia CSA; and Southern Boots and Saddles - the 15th Confederate Cavalry CSA, (1st Regiment Alabama and Florida Cavalry)"

Battle of Chickamauga - September 19-20, 1863

Gen. Braxton Bragg's Confederate Army attacked Gen. William Rosencrans' Union Army forcing a Union retreat to Chattanooga, Tennessee. There were 34,000 total causalties. The 18,000 Confederate losses included 37 men from the 38th Alabama. In addition, 151 soldiers of the 38th were wounded and five were missing. Map of the Battle of Chickamauga.
See Chickamauga Photos

Camp Chase Visited

   Eleven men of the 38th were buried at the Camp Chase Cemetery which is the final resting place of more than 2000 Southern soldiers.

See the eleven gravestones photographed by James Leon Windham.

See also: Windham's photos of Mt. Olivet Cemetery in Nashville, Tennessee.

Special Feature - Fontaine Letter

Harvey Jackson, who hails from the Grove Hill, Alabama, area and is head of the History and Foreign Language Department at Jacksonville State University, offered his contribution to Confederate History Month (April 1-30). Read this letter which his great-grandfather, 2nd Lieut. George Fontaine, Company B, wrote to his daughter from the field of battle near the end of the war.

This page lists the names and companies of those 38th Alabama men who were recognized for their bravery during the Battle at Chickamauga.

Help Us Identify These Men

See this photo of CSA Veterans taken around 1900.

Other Features

   The Jefferson Davis bicentennial birthday celebration was featured in June 2008. See that page here.

See also this letter about the Battle of Chickamauga from Joseph H. Fendley to his family.

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