Record of Service: ​

• This regiment was organized in Talladega County, Alabama in April of 1862, and reported to Gen. Leadbetter at Chattanooga, Tennessee shortly after it was mustered. It recruited its men in the counties of Cherokee, Shelby, Talladega, Randolph, Montgomery, and Calhoun (Company E).

1862

• It was ordered to Knoxville, TN where it was brigaded under Gen. Barton, of Stevenson's division.

 

• The regiment was at the investment of Cumberland Gap, and took part in the fight at Tazewell. With Gen. E.K. Smith's column it was in the Kentucky Campaign, without encountering the enemy.

 

• When the regiment returned from Kentucky, it was permanently brigaded with the Twentieth (20th), Twenty-third (23rd) Thirtieth (30th), and Forty-sixth (46th) Alabama, under Gen. Tracy of Madison, AL, within the Department of Mississippi and East Louisiana

 

• In December of 1862, the Thirty-first accompanied Stevenson's division to Vicksburg.

1863​

• In May 1863 it was initiated into the sternest duties of war at Port Gibson, where the regiment suffered severely. It fought at Baker's Creek, and the loss was very heavy. At Champion Hill, the regiment's colors were captured by a private from the 17th Iowa.

 

• As part of the garrison of Vicksburg, the regiment shared in the dangers and privations of that siege, and, after losing a number killed and wounded, was surrendered with the city.

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• It was organized with over 1,000 men, had 260 effectives in January, 1863, and lost 21 killed and 37 wounded at Vicksburg.

 

• Placed in parole camp at Demopolis, the Thirty-first was soon exchanged and then reorganized with Gen. Pettus in command of the brigade to which it was assigned within the Army of Tennessee, and was engaged with slight loss at Missionary Ridge.

 

• The unit reported 23 casualties at Chattanooga and in December, 1863, there were 452 present with 323 arms.

1864

• It wintered at Dalton, Georgia and in the memorable campaign from Dalton to Atlanta it bore a full share in the dangers and hardships which have made it a bloody but proud page in Southern Annals.

 

• It followed Gen. Hood into Tennessee, and after sustaining severe losses at Columbia and Nashville, it was the rear-guard of the retreating army.

1865

• The regiment was transferred to North Carolina, where it was hotly engaged at Bentonville, and a fragment of the 1100 with which it entered the service stacked arms at Greensboro, North Carolina as part of Pettus' brigade upon surrender and the end of the war. 

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• Only 180 were fit for duty in January, 1865, and less than 100 surrendered later in April.

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The 31st was commanded by Colonel Daniel R. Hundley, Lieutenant Colonel Thomas M. Arrington, and Major George W. Mattison.