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=== Brief History === | === Brief History === | ||
This was meant for a local organization, and consisted of five companies of men, mounted originally. Organized in the summer of 1862, in Jackson County. For the sake of convenience, the battalion was attached to the Thirty-third Alabama, without losing its distinctive organization.<ref>[http://www.archives.state.al.us/referenc/alamilor/18thbat.html Alabama | This was meant for a local organization, and consisted of five companies of men, mounted originally. Organized in the summer of 1862, in Jackson County. For the sake of convenience, the battalion was attached to the Thirty-third Alabama, without losing its distinctive organization.<ref>Alabama Department of Archives and History, [http://www.archives.state.al.us/referenc/alamilor/18thbat.html Eighteenth Alabama Battalion], Reproduced from Willis Brewer's Alabama:fckLRHer History, Resources War Record, and Public Men From 1540 to 1872, (accessed 4 Sept 2012)</ref><br> | ||
"Units of the Confederate States Army" by Joseph H. Crute, Jr. contains no history for this unit.<ref>National Park Service, [http://www.itd.nps.gov/cwss/ The Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System], (accessed 6 December 2010).</ref> | "Units of the Confederate States Army" by Joseph H. Crute, Jr. contains no history for this unit.<ref>National Park Service, [http://www.itd.nps.gov/cwss/ The Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System], (accessed 6 December 2010).</ref> | ||