| REGIMENTAL COMMANDING OFFICERS: In Descending Chronological Order Colonel James Ferguson Dowdell Commanding Officer Original commander of 37th Alabama Regiment of Volunteer Infantry Colonel W. W. Witherspoon Provisional Commanding Officer Commander of 36th MS, and given command of Provisional Regiment containing elements of 37th AL following Dowdell/Greene’s injuries at Corinth MS winter 1862 Colonel William T. Withers Provisional Commanding Officer Commander of 1st MS Light Artillery, and given command of Provisional Regiment with combined command at Chickasaw Bayou of 37th AL and other detached regiments during winter 1862-spring 1863 until Dowdell’s return Lieutenant-Colonel William Franklin Slaton Commanding Officer Commanding Regiment at Demopolis AL Parole Camp on 19 Oct 1863 (as Major) following medical retirement of Dowdell; Taken POW at Lookout Mountain TN 23 Nov 1863 (as Lt Col) while in command of Moore’s Brigade’s Pickets (apparently not in command of 37th AL regiment) Lieutenant-Colonel Alexander A. Greene Commanding Officer Second in Command until becoming Commanding Officer by January 1864, and apparently commanding regiment as early as November 1863 (Lookout Mountain and Missionary Ridge); Commanding regiment at Dalton GA (Dec 1863-Feb 1864); Commanding regiment at numerous actions in Northern GA (spring-summer 1864); Killed in action 22 July 1864 during Battle of Atlanta Captain Thomas J. Griffin (Company I) Commanding Officer Commanding 37th Regiment of Alabama Infantry CSA in Baker’s Brigade of Clayton’s Division of the Army of Tennessee on 31 July 1864 Captain Cincinnatus C. Pennington (Company F) Commanding Officer Commanding 37th Regiment of Alabama Infantry CSA in Baker’s of Clayton’s Division of Lee’s Corps of the Army of Tennessee on 31 Aug 1864 at Atlanta Colonel John H. Higley Commanding Officer Commanding Consolidated 37th Alabama Infantry (with 42nd & 54th AL in a temporary field consolidation) at Spanish Fort AL in November 1864 Captain James H. Johnson (Company B) Commanding Officer Commanding 37th Regiment of Alabama Infantry CSA on 31 Dec 1864 Captain Thomas B. Richards (Company H) Commanding Officer Commanding 37th Regiment of Alabama Infantry CSA on 19 March 1865 at Bentonville NC Colonel J. A. Minter Commanding Officer Assigned Command on 9 Apr 1865 of Consolidated 37th Regiment of Alabama Infantry CSA (37th permanently combined with the 42nd & 54th AL); Paroled at Greensboro NC 1 May 1865 as Colonel of Consolidated 37th AL CSA REGIMENTAL STAFF: Major John Porter Warner Amerine Staff Officer Major Claiborn(e)E. Evans Staff Officer Captain John C. Meadows Adjutant Sergeant-Major Thomas L. Samford Adjutant W. M. Weaver Adjutant REGIMENTAL QUARTERMASTER CORPS: Captain Charles P. Rodgers Regimental Quartermaster Captain James C. Lewis Assistant Quartermaster/Quartermaster Second-Lieutenant John Marion Trammell Quartermaster Clerk/Regimental Mail Carrier Master-Sergeant G.W. Vann Quartermaster Sergeant Private Isador Mendheim Regimental Tailor ORDNANCE CORPS: First-Lieutenant Thomas Jefferson Carlisle Regimental Ordnance Officer Sergeant Samuel A. Majors Ordnance Sergeant Sergeant Clark W. Foster Ordnance Sergeant Sergeant Robert R. Moore Ordnance Sergeant COMMISSARY CORPS: Sergeant Richard D. Riviere Commissary Sergeant Private G. W. Vann Assistant Commissary Sergeant Private Winfield S.J. Lampkin Assistant Commissary Sergeant CHAPLAINS: Second-Corporal Larken Culbreath Chaplain Benjamin F. Perry Chaplain REGIMENTAL COLOR BEARERS/COLOR GUARD: Lieutenant James M. Ables Regimental Ensign Private Benjamin Hampton Hammack Regimental Color Bearer Private Elias Harmon Regimental Color Bearer Corporal John P. K.Spence Regimental Color Guard Private "Jack" Summers Regimental Color Bearer Private Bird Jones Color Guard - Company K COMPANY COMMANDERS: Company A: Captain Moses B. Greene Captain John W. W. Jackson First Lieutenant Robert L. Phipps Company B: Captain Lovic P. Hamner Captain John O. Davis Captain James H. Johnson Company C: Captain Joel C. ("Jack") Kendrick Company D: Captain James M. Kendrick (Kennedy) Captain Jeptha J Padgett Captain James R. Burnett Captain Clark W. Foster Company E: Captain Jacob L. Skipper Captain Joel ("Joe") G. Greene Company F: Captain Uriah Dunn Captain Cincinnatus C. Pennington Company G: Captain Warner W. Meadows Captain George Washington Shealy Captain Claiborne E. Evans Captain Sledge M. Robertson Company H: Captain Marion C. J.Searcy Captain Henry T. Taylor Captain Arthur B. Holmes Captain William T. Bell Captain Thomas B. Richards Company I: Captain James A. Talbot Captain D.W. Rankin Captain Thomas J. Griffin Company K: Captain James M. Leach Captain George H. Chatfield
37th Alabama Regiment of Volunteer Infantry CSA © Copyright 2007 C.C. (Chip) Culpepper
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