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t was on the present site of Fort Morgan. On September 12th the fort was attacked by a party of 712 British and Indians under Colonel Nichols, assisted by two sloops and two brigs. They were beaten off with the loss of 200 men and one of the ships. The British ships also made an attack on Mobile, but retired without doing any material damage. General Jackson then marched with 4,000 men to Pensacola, drove the British from Fort Barrancas, and then proceeded to New Orleans, where, on January 8th, he won his great victory over the British General Pakenham. A month later a fleet of 38 British war vessels and 5,000 soldiers captured Fort Bowyer, but as peace had been declared, they only held it a few weeks. The withdrawal of the British troops enabled the government to make very satisfactory treaties with the Indians. On March 1817, the present territorial limits of Alabama were defined by Congress, and on December 14, 1819, it became one of the States of the Union. In 1830 th
Col. O. M. Roberts, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 12.1, Alabama (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Battles of the Western army in which Albama troops were engaged. (search)
roops, parts of 1st, 3d, 4th, 51st Cav., and 8th Conf. Cav. Manchester Pike, Tenn., Jan. 5. Gen. Jos. Wheeler, total loss 24. —Federal, total loss go. Alabama troops, parts of 1st, 3d, 4th, 51st Cav., and 8th Conf. Cav. Mill Cr., Tenn., Jan. 8. Gen. Jos. Wheeler; total loss 1.—Federal, total loss 40. Alabama troops, parts of 1st, 3d, 4th, 51st Cav., and 8th Conf. Cav. Off Texas, Hatteras, and Albemarle, Tenn., Jan. 11. Ad. Semmes. —Federal; loss 2 k, 3 w, 110 m. Harding Pike,. Sugar Cr., Tenn., Dec. 26. Gen. Hood.—Federal, Gen. Thomas; loss 400 k and w, 100 m. Alabama troops, 7th Cav.; Kolb's, Lumsden's Battrs. Pond Spring, Ala., Dec. 29. Loss 1 k, 2 w, 45 m.—Federal, loss 1 k. 1865. Scottsboro, Ala., Jan. 8. Loss 1 k, 5 w, 5 m. Savannah Rd., S. C., Jan. 19. Gen. Jos. Wheeler; total loss 12.— Federal, total loss 35. Alabama troops, parts of the 1st, 3d, 51st Cav., and 3d, 10th Conf. Cav. Pocotaligo Rd., S. C., Jan. 20. Gen. Jos. Wheel