1st Alabama Cavalry Regiment (Union)

1st Alabama Cavalry Regiment
ActiveOctober, 1862–October 20, 1865
DisbandedOctober 20, 1865
CountryUnited States United States
AllegianceUnion
BranchUnited States Army
Union Army
TypeCavalry
SizeRegiment
EngagementsAmerican Civil War
Commanders
Notable
commanders
Col. George E. Spencer
Captain Phillip A. Sternberg of Co. B, 1st Alabama Cavalry Regiment in the 1860s

The 1st Alabama Cavalry Regiment was a cavalry regiment recruited from Southern Unionists that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War. It was the only predominantly-white Union regiment from Alabama. Of the 2,678 white Alabamians who enlisted in the Union Army, 2,066 served in the 1st Alabama Cavalry.[1]

  1. ^ Sean Michael O'Brien (1999). Mountain Partisans: Guerrilla Warfare in the Southern Appalachians, 1861–1865. Praeger. p. 92.