The 23rd Alabama Sharpshooter Battalion was a sharpshooter

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. The battalion was formed on November 25, 1863 at Charleston, Tennessee from three companies of the 1st Infantry Battalion, Hilliard's Alabama Legion.Sifakis p.89

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The 23rd Alabama Sharpshooter Battalion served in

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's Alabama Brigade in the Department of East Tennessee in late 1863, before being transferred to the Department of Richmond in time for the Bermuda Hundred Campaign . It later served with the Army of Northern Virginia from the Siege of Petersburg to the surrender at Appomattox Courthouse on April 9, 1865.

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* Lewellyn A. Shaver History of the Sixtieth Alabama Regiment, Gracie's Alabama Brigade * Stewart Sifakis. Compendium of the Confederate Armies: Alabama. Facts on File, NY 1992 Units and formations of the Confederate States Army from Alabama Sharpshooter units and formations of the American Civil War {{AmericanCivilWar-unit-stub

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