[125] These regiments were the 57th and 61st Infantry, and 7th Cavalry.
[126] General Lee protested against this practice as preventing the proper recruitment of the armies. Livermore, “Numbers and Losses in the Civil War,” p. 12.
[127] The infantry regiments in Lee’s army had 12 companies.
[128] See summary of Confederate legislation on the subject. Livermore, p. 30. The purpose of these laws was to discourage the formation of new commands. It was not effective in Alabama.
[129] These were the infantry regiments numbered 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 41, 44, 48.
[130] The infantry regiments numbered 9, 11, 44, 48.
[131] The infantry regiments numbered 43, 47, 49, 61. Brewer, “Regimental Histories.”
[132] These were the infantry regiments numbered 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 41, 44, 48.
[133] When the regiments enlisted for a short time were retained in the service, the men were allowed to change to other regiments if they desired, and many did so. These transfers and reënlistments swelled the total enrolment of popular regiments.
[134] This has since been the method of estimating the number of soldiers furnished by Alabama,—each enlistment counting as one man.