The Alabama 45th Infantry regiment was organized at Auburn, in May 1862. Four companies, D, G, H and K had assembled at Loachapoka where they were to have been organized into the 34th Regiment. Disagreement between organizing officers resulted in these units being withdrawn to Auburn where they were formed into the 45th. Though sister units the 45th and 34th only fought one battle together, Murfreesboro, Tennessee, where they were together side by side. Placed in the brigade of Gen. Wood of Lauderdale, Cleburne's division, (with the Sixteenth, Twenty-sixth, Fiftieth, and Thirty-third Alabama), the Forty-fifth remained on duty with the Army of Tennessee, passing the first half of the year 1863 at Tullahoma. It fought under the eye of Cleburne at Chickamauga, and its mutilated ranks told the eloquent story of its services. Gen. Mark Lowery of Mississippi succeeded to the command of the brigade, and the Forty-fifth was present at Missionary Ridge and Ringgold Gap with slight loss. The winter was passed at Dalton, and the regiment took a full share in the Dalton-Atlanta Campaign, especially at Resaca, and at New Hope, where Cleburne's division grappled with Logan's corps. On the 22nd of July, at Atlanta, death reveled in its ranks, and half the regiment went down on the hard-fought field. Six weeks later it again fought " where Cleburne crossed the line" at Jonesboro, with considerable loss. Then followed the long and disastrous march into Tennessee. The Forty-fifth opened the battle at Franklin the evening before by a brilliant fight at Springhill, and the next day was in the bloody and desperate assault of Cleburne's division on the enemy's works, and was almost annihilated around the corpse of its heroic division commander. Its colors floated before Nashville, and a remnant of the Fort-fifth moved into North Carolina. It was there consolidated with other Alabama regiments, and surrendered with Gen Johnston's forces. Companies Of The AL 45th Infantry Regiment Co. A - Barbour -- Harris D. Lampley; promoted. Jas. M. Hobdy; resigned Ellis Phelan. Co. B - Lowndes -- George C. Freeman; promoted. J. F. Clements; wounded at Murfreesboro; detached; Lieut. J. A. Robertson commanded. Co. C - Macon -- Thos. F. Flournoy; resigned .... Gaffney; killed at Perryville. John Callier. Co. D - Barbour and Macon -- G. W. Carter; resigned. J. C. Caldwell. Co. E - Macon -- James Jackson; wounded at Atlanta; promoted. S. W. King. Co. F - Russell. -- .... Tucker; resigned. .... Crockett. Co. G - Macon.-James M. Simmons; resigned. John R. Carson; killed at Franklin Co. H - Macon -- R. H. Abercrombie; promoted. Thomas Smith; killed at Atlanta. John E. Jones; wounded at Spring Hill. Co. I - Macon -- L. M. Wilson; resigned. Barton Perry; wounded at Chickamauga and Franklin. Co. K - Russell -- ... Black; resigned. A. W. Torbert; wounded at Chickamauga.