Near Midway in Barbour County, Alabama — The American South (East South Central)
Fort Browder / 15th Alabama Infantry
Photographed By Tim Fillmon, January 8, 2022
1. Fort Browder / 15th Alabama Infantry Marker Side 1
Inscription.
Fort Browder, also, 15th Alabama Infantry. .
Fort Browder. Approximately one mile south-southwest of here stood Fort Browder, a small wooden fortification built in 1836 for protection in the last war with the Creek Indians and named for Isham Browder, a prominent local planter. In 1861, the fort witnessed the formation of a Confederate infantry company known as the Fort Browder Roughs initially commanded by Captain Moses Worthington. The Roughs were subsequently enrolled as Company D, 15th Alabama Infantry. Of the 106 officers and men of Company D, 21 were killed in battle (including 1 captain and 2 lieutenants), 46 were wounded but survived, and 26 died of disease.
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15th Alabama Infantry (Continued from other side). The 15th Alabama was recruited from Barbour, Dale, Henry, Macon, Pike, and Russell Counties and organized at Ft. Mitchell in Russell County in the summer of 1861. The unit fought in many skirmishes and battles including: Winchester, Va. May 25, 1862 Fredericksburg, Va. Dec 23, 1862 Cross Keys, Va. Jun. 8, 1862 Gettysburg, Pa. Jul. 2-5, 1863 Cold Harbor, Va. Jun. 27, 1862 Chickamauga, Ga. Sept. 19-20, 1863 Malvern Hill, Va. Jul. 2, 1862 Wilderness, Va. May 6, 1864 Cedar Mountain, Va. Aug. 9, 1862 Spotsylvania CH, Va. May 8-19, 1864 Second Manassas, Va. Aug. 28-30, 1862 North Anna, Va. May 25, 1864 Chantilly, Va. Sept. 1, 1862 2nd Cold Harbor, Va. Jun. 3, 1864 Sharpsburg, Va. Sept. 17, 1862 Vicinity of Petersburg, Va. Jun. 1864-Apr. 1865, Of the 1612 officers and men who joined the 15 Alabama, 279 were killed in battle, 599 were wounded and 459 died of disease. Only 172 remained to surrender with General Lee at Appomattox CH on Apr. 9, 1865.
Fort Browder
Approximately one mile south-southwest of here stood Fort Browder, a small wooden fortification built in 1836 for protection in the last war with the Creek Indians and named for Isham Browder, a prominent local planter. In 1861, the fort witnessed the formation of a Confederate infantry company known as the Fort Browder Roughs initially commanded by Captain Moses Worthington. The Roughs were subsequently enrolled as Company D, 15th Alabama Infantry. Of the 106 officers and men of Company D, 21 were killed in battle (including 1 captain and 2 lieutenants), 46 were wounded but survived, and 26 died of disease.
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15th Alabama Infantry
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The 15th Alabama was recruited from Barbour, Dale, Henry, Macon, Pike, and Russell Counties and organized at Ft. Mitchell in Russell County in the summer of 1861. The unit fought in many skirmishes and battles including:
Winchester, Va. May 25, 1862
Fredericksburg, Va. Dec 23, 1862
Cross Keys, Va. Jun. 8, 1862
Gettysburg, Pa. Jul. 2-5, 1863
Cold Harbor, Va. Jun. 27, 1862
Chickamauga, Ga. Sept. 19-20, 1863
Malvern Hill, Va. Jul. 2, 1862
Wilderness, Va. May 6, 1864
Cedar Mountain, Va.
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Aug. 9, 1862
Spotsylvania CH, Va. May 8-19, 1864
Second Manassas, Va. Aug. 28-30, 1862
North Anna, Va. May 25, 1864
Chantilly, Va. Sept. 1, 1862
2nd Cold Harbor, Va. Jun. 3, 1864
Sharpsburg, Va. Sept. 17, 1862
Vicinity of Petersburg, Va. Jun. 1864-Apr. 1865
Of the 1612 officers and men who joined the 15 Alabama, 279 were killed in battle, 599 were wounded and 459 died of disease. Only 172 remained to surrender with General Lee at Appomattox CH on Apr. 9, 1865.
Erected 2009 by Historic Chattahoochee Commission; United Daughters of the Confederacy Chapter 2669, Capt. S.H. Dent; and Sons of Confederate Veterans Camp No. 486, Dent’s Artillery.
Location. 32° 0.5′ N, 85° 18.577′ W. Marker is near Midway, Alabama, in Barbour County. Marker is on Woody Johnson Road, 0.1 miles east of County Route 79, on the left when traveling east. Touch for map. Marker is at or near this postal address: 60-24 Woody Johnson Rd, Midway AL 36053, United States of America. Touch for directions.
Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within 9 miles of this marker, measured as the crow flies. Batesville Church - 1837 (within shouting distance of this marker); a different marker also named Fort Browder / 15th Alabama Infantry
Photographed By Tim Fillmon, January 8, 2022
2. Fort Browder / 15th Alabama Infantry Marker Side 2
Photographed By James L.Whitman, December 15, 2021
3. 2nd Fort Browder Marker Marker
Photographed By James L.Whitman, December 15, 2021
4. 2nd Fort Browder Marker Marker
Credits. This page was last revised on January 12, 2022. It was originally submitted on December 22, 2021, by James L.Whitman of Eufaula, Alabama. This page has been viewed 380 times since then and 42 times this year. Photos:1, 2. submitted on January 12, 2022, by Tim Fillmon of Webster, Florida. 3, 4. submitted on December 22, 2021, by James L.Whitman of Eufaula, Alabama. • Bernard Fisher was the editor who published this page.
