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The 53rd Alabama Cavalry Regiment,
Partisan Rangers, was organized
by increasing the 1st Cavalry Battalion to regimental size at Montgomery on 5
November 1862. Recruits were from Autauga, Coffee, Coosa, Dale, Dallas,
Lauderdale, Lowndes, Macon, Monroe, Montgomery, Pike, Tallapoosa, and Wilcox
counties.
It proceeded in a few weeks to Mississippi.
the regiment was there equipped and proceeded
to join Gen' Earl Van Dorn. This battalion was in the fighting at
Thompson's Station, and at Brentwood. The regiment was engaged in the
fight with Union Gen'l Grenville Dodge at Town Creek and in the pursuit on
Union Gen'l Abel Streight.
Soon after, the 53rd joined the main army at
Dalton as part of
It was then at the heels of Sherman as he
devastated Georgia and the Carolinas, and took part in the last operations of
the army in that quarter. It surrendered a small number with Gen'l
Joseph E. Johnston at Durham Station, Orange County, NC, on 26 April 1865.
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