| 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, Miss., 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, Miss., of the 37th AL and other detached regiments during the winter 1862-spring 1863 until Dowdell’s return Lieutenant-Colonel William Franklin Slaton Commanding Officer Commanding Regiment at Demopolis, Ala., 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, both Chattanooga, Tenn.); 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 Captain Moses B. Green (Company A) Commanding Officer Commanding 37th Alabama Infantry at Spanish Fort AL in October 1864 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 DEPT.: 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 DEPT.: 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 DEPT.: Sergeant Richard D. Riviere Commissary Sergeant Private G. W. Vann Assistant Commissary Sergeant Private Winfield S.J. Lampkin Assistant Commissary Sergeant CHAPLAINCY: Second-Corporal Larken Culbreath Chaplain Benjamin F. Perry Chaplain REGIMENTAL COLOR BEARERS/COLOR GUARD: Ensign James M. Ables (1st Lieutenant equivalent rank) Regimental Ensign Sergeant Anderson F. Clifton Regimental Color Guard Private Nathan F. Glover Regimental Color Guard Private Benjamin Hampton Hammack Regimental Color Bearer Private Elias Harmon Regimental Color Bearer Private Leonard W. (Walt) Harmon Regimental Color Guard Corporal John P. K. Spence Regimental Color Guard Private "Jack" Summers Regimental Color Bearer Sergeant Joseph Tucker Regimental Color Guard Private Bird Jones Color Guard - Company K REGIMENTAL BAND: A.J. Veal Drum Major Oscar D. Grout Drum Major/Drummer Thomas C. Lamar Regimental Bass Drum Andrew J. Callahan Regimental Drummer ______ Kennedy Regimental Fifer David Majors Fifer L.J. Ellenberry Drummer James Bracken Drummer James D. Hadaway Drummer D.N. Jeffries Musician Archibald C. Spears Musician James L. Thompson Musician MEDICAL DEPART.: (and those assigned to TEMPORARY MEDICAL DUTY) See the individual biographies of these men for complete details of their medical service. SURGEONS: Oslin, John Wimblish Regimental Chief Surgeon 1st Lieutenant Barnett, J B Rank Unknown Postell, Phillip Smith Rank Unknown Davis, William M. Rank Unknown Fannin (Fanning), Joseph Brown 2nd Lieutenant-1st Lieutenant ASSISTANT SURGEONS: Neal, Vandy Marceullus 3rd Lieutenant-2nd Lieutenant Manning, A.J. Rank Unknown Boroughs, William M. 2nd Lieutenant Hill, B. A. Private Flake, Benjamin C. (F) Private Credille (Credile/Cridelle), William H. Private MEDICAL SUPPORT STAFF: Dowdell, Algernon George Hospital Ward Master Private Callahan, William B. ("Willie") Hospital Steward Private Callahan, Andrew J. Hospital Courier/Nurse Private Freeman, J.T. Ambulance Driver Private-Sergeant White, John B. "Ambulance Boy" Private Chandler, William L. Medical Department Teamster Private Grace, George Thomas Nurse/Hospital Cook 2nd Corporal Pellum, Joel A. Nurse/Hospital Cook Private-Corporal Brooks, Floyd T. Nurse/Hospital Cook Private Forrester (Forester), Benjamin Albert ("Singing Ben") Hospital Cook Private Frazer (Frazier), William A. J. Hospital Cook Private Haywood, James Hospital Cook Private Moss, James D. Hospital Cook Private Parker, Francis M. Hospital Cook Private Wynn (Wynnes), James P. Hospital Cook Private NURSES: Those named here were at one time or another assigned to extra duty as a nurse. Some of these men may have been injured to a degree requiring hospitalization themselves, but were deemed well enough to assist the more seriously injured/sick. Brunson, James P. Callahan, Andrew J. Crayton, Henry Clay Culpepper, William Araspes Dauphin, Daniel L. M. Duncan (Dunkin), James M. Givens, James Thomas (F) Lard (Laird), W J Manning, William H Mathison (Matheson), John Wesley Mears (Merers), Ebenezer C. Murphy, Joseph M. Phipps, Andrew, J. Sessions, William ("Billy") Harry Smith, Archibald ("Archie") W. Starling (Sterling), William L. Ussery, John C. (T) Vineyard, John M. Wood, James Wood, Joseph Wright, George Wesley Blackman, K.P. Adair (Adar), Johnathan J (W)* Meadows, Willis V.* Welch (Weelch), William* *Possibly served as Nurse while hospitalized, but service not confirmed. Last update 12 Sept 2012
37th Alabama Regiment of Volunteer Infantry CSA © Copyright 2007 C.C. (Chip) Culpepper
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