This crack brigade served first under General Pryor, then General Wilcox. It saw service from the Seven Days until Appomattox. As part of the core of Anderson's Division, the brigade joined the Third Corps prior to the Gettysburg Campaign.

Biographies of the Commanders:

• Cadmus M. Wilcox - Promoted to division command.
• Abner Perrin - Killed at Spotsylvania.
• John C.C. Sanders - Killed at Petersburg.

8th Alabama

• Lt. Col. John P. Emrich (?-?)
• German-born mechanic wounded at Gaines Mill and Petersburg
• Lt. Col. John W. Frazer (?-?)
• Col. Hilary A. Herbert
• Lt. Col. Thomas Evans Irby (12/17/23-05/05/62)
• From Marlboro SC; Mexican War veteran and planter in Wilcox Cty Alabama killed at Williamsburg
• Maj. Duke Nall (1830-1865)
• Perry Cty planter wded at Frazier's Farm; mortally wded in chest at Wilderness
• Col. Young Lea Royston (06/22/19-1884)
• 6-7 Selma lawyer wounded at Frazier's Farm & Salem Church; post-war lawyer and cotton dealer
• Col. John A. Winston

10th Alabama

• Maj. Taul Bradford
• Lt. Col. John H. Caldwell
• Lt. Col. Arthur S. Cunningham
• Col. John H. Forney
• Col. William Forney
• Maj. Lewis W. Johnson (10/01/32-12/08/1909)
• Of Wilkes Cty NC; wounded 9/1863; businessman in Talladega post-war
• Lt. Col. James Benson Martin (09/27/25-12/20/61)
• Habersham Cty lawyer and judge killed at Dranesville
• Lt. Col. James E. Shelley (09/02/31-06/22/64)
• Of Talladega; wounded at Gaines Mill and Spotsylvania; killed in action Petersburg
• Lt. Col. William Thomas Smith (01//04/44-04/23/1915)
• Of Petersburg VA; postwar state legislator
• Maj. James D. Truss
• Col. John Jefferson Woodward (10/1808-06/25/62)
• Talladega Cty lawyer and state legislator killed at Gaines Mill

11th Alabama

• Maj. George Field (?-1866)
• Greene Cty sheriff wounded at Frazier's Farm
• Maj. Richard J. Fletcher (1834-ca.1895)
• Uniontown teacher who lost leg at Gettysburg
• Maj. Archibald Gracie (?-?)
• Lt. Col. Stephen F. Hale
• Col. Sydenham Moore
• Col. John C.C. Sanders
• Col. George E. Tayloe

14th Alabama

• Lt. Col. David William Baine (08/29/29-06/25/62)
• Ohio-born teacher and lawyer in Lowndes Cty AL killed at Frazier's Farm
• Lt. Col. James Andrew Broome (11/27/39-05/07/1917)
• Of La Grange GA; lost leg during War; postwar farmer
• Maj. Mickleberry P. Ferrell (ca. 1835-?)
• Of Chambers Cty; resigned 12/62 due to illness
• Col. Thomas J. Jule (?-?)
• Maj. Robert A. McCord (?-05/26/62)
• Of Tallapoosa Cty; mortally wounded at Salem Church
• Maj. Owen Kenan McLemore (11/?/35-09/30/62)
• USMA 1856; mortally wded at South Mountain
• Col. Lucius Pinckard (08/04/41-?)
• Of Tuskegee; wounded at Salem Church and Gettysburg; postwar Macon sheriff
• Maj. George W. Taylor (ca. 1837-?)
• Of Milltown; wounded at Spotsylvania
• Col. Alfred C. Wood (?-?)
• Of Randolph Cty; wounded at Frazier's Farm

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