Alabama 5th Infantry Battalion (Confederate)

Cedar Mountain

Maj. Gen. John Pope was placed in command of the newly-constituted Army of Virginia on June 26th. Pope's orders were to defend Washington DC and Union-held northern Virginia while the Army of the Potomac under Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan battled Robert E. Lee outside of Richmond. When McClellan was defeated at the end of the Seven Days battles less than a week later, Lee turned his attention north toward Pope while McClellan regrouped his army. Pope's three army corps were arrayed in a line from the Blu…READ MORE

CaptainThomas Bush

LieutenantCharles M. Hooper

Major GeneralAmbrose P. Hill

CaptainThomas Bush

Second Bull Run

After the early summer collapse of the Union Peninsula Campaign offensive to capture Richmond, Robert E. Lee sought to move his army north and threaten Washington DC before Union forces could regroup.READ MORE

Chantilly

Confederate Maj. Gen. "Stonewall" Jackson hoped to cut off the Union retreat from Manassas the day after the Confederate victory at the second battle fought there. Jackson's wing of Lee's army made a wide, flanking march, screened by Maj. Gen. J.E.B. Stuart's cavalry, north and then east, to take the strategically important village of Germantown. There, Maj. Gen. John Pope's only two retreat routes to Washington - the Warrenton Pike and the Little River Turnpike - converged. On September 1st, beyond Chanti…READ MORE

CaptainCharles M. Hooper

Brigadier GeneralJames J. Archer

ColonelPeter Turney

Antietam

The Army of the Potomac, under the command of Maj. Gen. George McClellan, mounted a series of powerful assaults against General Robert E. Lee's forces along Antietam Creek near Sharpsburg, Maryland, on September 17th, 1862.READ MORE

CaptainSamuel D. Stewart

MajorAlbert S. Van de Graaff

Brigadier GeneralJames J. Archer

Major GeneralA. P. Hill

MajorAlbert S. Van de Graaff

Fredericksburg

In early November, Maj. Gen. Ambrose E. Burnside took command of the Army of the Potomac, and made immediate plans to move the army once again toward Richmond.READ MORE

CaptainA. N. Porter

CaptainS. D. Stewart

Brigadier GeneralJames J. Archer

ColonelBirkett D. Fry

Brigadier GeneralHenry Heth

Brigadier GeneralJames J. Archer

Brigadier GeneralWilliam D. Pender

Major GeneralAmbrose P. Hill

CaptainS. D. Stewart

Brigadier GeneralHenry Heth

Brigadier GeneralWilliam D. Pender

Chancellorsville

On April 27, 1863, Maj. Gen. Joseph Hooker launched a turning movement designed to pry Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia out of its lines at Fredericksburg.READ MORE

MajorAlbert S. Van de Graaff

Brigadier GeneralJames J. Archer

ColonelBirkett D. Fry

Lieutenant ColonelSamuel G. Shepard

Brigadier GeneralJames J. Pettigrew

Major GeneralHenry Heth

Brigadier GeneralJames J. Archer

ColonelBirkett D. Fry

Major GeneralHenry Heth

Brigadier GeneralJames J. Pettigrew

Gettysburg

In the summer of 1863, Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee launched his second invasion of the Northern states. Lee sought to capitalize on recent Confederate victories and defeat the Union army on Northern soil, which he hoped would force the Lincoln administration to negotiate for peace. Lee also sought to take the war out of the ravaged Virginia farmland and gather supplies for his Army of Northern Virginia. Using the Shenandoah Valley as cover for his army, Lee was pursued first by Union Maj. Gen. Joseph Ho…READ MORE