This database compiles all known information about the 1st Alabama Cavalry in one place.

Each listing contains individual trooper's combined service record. Compiled by Glenda Todd, this service record details much of the activities that were noted in their file in the National Archives.

When available, the record also contains links to any known pictures of the trooper or his tombstone. Some records also contain stories submitted by descendants and researchers.

If you would like to contribute to our collection, please feel free to contact us.

Attention All Descendants of 1st AL Soldiers

The information that Glenda Todd has submitted on the soldiers and their families came from researching census, military, pension, POW and cemetery records, Southern claims, Ancestry.com, Rootsweb.com, Familysearch.org, and from descendants. She has found many mistakes on Ancestry, Rootsweb and Familysearch but at the same time, much of it is correct. Please do not use the information as fact but rather as a blueprint to do further research and prove or disprove what is there. Hopefully the submitted information on the soldiers and their families will be helpful to descendants in giving them a place to begin the quest for their heritage if they haven't already. This was a group of loyal, dedicated, patriotic soldiers who went above and beyond the call of duty to their country and they deserve to be remembered. Their plight was a difficult one, during and after the war, but they remained true to their country and fought for it as best they could. The 1st Alabama Cavalry Union Regiment was indeed unique and many of its soldiers paid the ultimate price for their country. This is why she have spent the past 30 plus years researching the regiment and it's families and making the information available to descendants and other interested Civil War Buffs.

She has been told by two highly respected black Genealogists that this is the only Union Regiment, other than the USCT, that had blacks who were actually enlisted, especially in jobs other than cooks. Some were Teamsters and Wagon Masters while others were enlisted as Undercooks. As a matter of fact, she was told by one of the Genealogists that she was taught for 25 years by the professionals that there were no blacks enlisted in other than the USCT Regiments and she was shocked to learn they were actually "enlisted" in the 1st AL Cav. USV. Glenda has researched all of the blacks in the 1st AL and some of them deservedly drew pensions, as did their wives. Some of them were slaves when they joined the 1st AL Cavalry and they listed the names of their owners in their pension applications. Glenda has obtained the pension records on all blacks in the regiments, where available, transcribed them and made them available on the website. Other information will be posted later.

If anyone locates any discrepancies in the family information, please let us know. Also, we would appreciate having any additional family information or pictures you would like to share. If you know of a burial site for one of our soldiers that is not listed, please let us know the name and place of the cemetery.

Glenda is currently listing the names of all soldiers in a Family Tree Maker Genealogy Program along with their families and all known information. She is about two-thirds of the way through and it will be available on the 1st AL Website as soon as it is completed. If you send any information on your ancestors to the website, it will also come to Glenda. Many thanks to all who have already supplied us with their wonderful pictures and family research.