Indian Wars

• Second Seminole War (a/k/a Florida War)   
  
• Taylor's Company, Chisolm's Alabama Militia Volunteers (1836)  

War of Southern Independence ~ Confederate

• Alabama Civil War Regimental Histories
• Confederate  [offsite link]

• 5th Alabama Cavalry, C.S.A.
• Company A: muster list with additional data from 1860 U.S. census  [link to Fayette County Archives]
• Fayette County surnames include DICUS (DIKES), HAM, HENDERSON, HODGES, LINDSEY, MUSGROVE, RUSSELL, and STEWART

• 11th Alabama Infantry, C.S.A.
• Regimental flag  [offsite link]
• Regimental history  [offsite link]
• Company I recruited from Fayette County

• 13th Alabama Cavalry (Partisan Rangers), C.S.A.
• Consolidated with 15th Battalion in June 1863 to form 56th Cavalry Regiment, Partisan Rangers
  
• Muster list, Company E  
• Company E recruited primarily from Fayette County

• 26th Alabama Infantry (O'Neal's), C.S.A.
• Muster lists with brief soldier histories  [offsite link]
• Companies A, B, C, D, E, I, and K recruited predominately from Fayette County
• Regimental flag  [offsite link]

• 38th Alabama Infantry, C.S.A.
• Muster lists  [offsite link]  
• Company F, "North River Tigers," recruited  primarily from Fayette County
• Regimental flag  [offsite link]
• Regimental history  [offsite link]

• 41st Alabama Infantry, C.S.A.
• Muster lists  [offsite link]
• Company H recruited almost exclusively from Fayette County
• Regimental flag  [offsite link]
• Regimental history  [offsite link]

• 42nd Alabama Infantry, C.S.A.
• Muster lists  [offsite link]
• Company F recruited primarily from Fayette County
• Regimental history: Part 1 & Part 2  [link to Alabama Archives]

• 43rd Alabama Infantry, C.S.A.  
• Muster roll, Company I 
  
• Regimental flag  [offsite link] 
  
• Regimental history  [offsite link] 
  

• Harrington's Company, Alabama Mounted Volunteers, C.S.A.
• Fayette County Home Guard ~ organized September 1864
• Scanned images of original muster list  [offsite link]
• Surnames: ABBOTT, ALLEN, ARNOLD, BARNES, BEASLEY, BENTON, BICKERSTAFF, BOBO, BOHANNON, BUTLAR (Butler?), CAMRON (?), CASH, COLLINS, COOPER, DUCKWORTH, EARP, GILMOE (Gilmore?), GREAR (Greer?), HANKINS, HARRINGTON, HOLLY, HUDSON, JACKSON, JENNINGS, JONES, KEMP, KING, LANCFORD (Lankford?), LINZY (Lindsey?), LOVE, MALLORY, McCOOLE, McCULLOUGH, McGEE, McGILL, McLUNG (McClung?), MORTON, NICOLS (Nichols?), NOLAN (?), PHILIPS, POE, POOR (?), ROBERTS, ROBERTSON, SCOTT, SMITH, SISSON, STEWART, SUGGS, SUMMERS, SWANZY, TOD (Todd?), THOMSON (Thompson?), TRAYLOR, VAILS, VAUGHN, WAFORD, WILLIAMS, WILSON, and YOUNG

• Palmer's Company, Alabama State Reserves Cavalry, C.S.A.
• Muster list  [offsite link]
• "This Company was made up of men from Fayette County Alabama and was Mustered into the Service on June 22, 1864."

War of the Rebellion ~ Union

• Alabama Civil War Regimental Histories
• Union  [offsite link]

• 1st Alabama Cavalry, U.S.A.
• Company C, United States Volunteers  [offsite link]  
• "Unionist feeling in Alabama was strongest in the northern half of the state and, while centered in Winston County, was heavy throughout the region.  The 1st Alabama Cavalry, U.S. Volunteers was the military result of that anti-secession feeling.  The regiment was formed in October 1862 in Huntsville and Memphis, and mustered into Federal service that December in Corinth, Mississippi.  Company officers were chosen from among the men and Captain George E. Spencer was later named Colonel and given overall command.  The '1st' was one of six Union regiments from Alabama, the only cavalry unit, and its ranks contained both whites and blacks."  Includes searchable roster, as well as stories, photos and tombstone locations of men who served in the 1st.
• Sixty-six Soldiers of the First Alabama Cavalry USA Who Died During the Unit's Encampment at Nashville, Tennessee, September 1862 through January 1863 
  
• "Among the dead from disease in the First Alabama Cavalry USA were several Northwest Alabama volunteers," including a few from Fayette County.
  
• Winston County Soldiers in the First Alabama Cavalry, U.S.A.  [offsite link]
• Identified as a Winston County regiment, this unit also included several men who enlisted from Fayette County

• Gold Star Database  
• List of Fayette County soldiers who lost their lives during WWI
• Includes link to searchable database at Alabama Department of Archives & History
  

• Civil War  
  
• Henry W. BRASHER to wife (1864) 
  
• George R. SHELTON to family (1862)   

Misc. Military Records

• Maimed Confederate Soldiers
  
• Applications for Relief (1877-1885)
• Surnames: JONES, LANE, MASSEY, MILES, STILLMAN and YERBY
• James R. Moore: Application for Relief (1892) 
  

• State Disbursements to Confederate Soldiers and Widows (1894, 1896, 1897)  

• 1907 Census of Confederate Soldiers 
• A - G
• H - O 
  
• P - Z

Obituaries

• KIRKLAND, William F. (1907)  [offsite link]
• Enlisted in 11th Alabama Infantry, C.S.A., at Fayette Court House, 1861

Pension Records

• Fayette County Pensioners (1883)  
  
• List of War of 1812 widows and some survivors
• Includes certificate numbers and post office addresses
  

• JEFFRIES, V.V. (1905)  [link to Fayette County Archives]
• Widow of T.J. JEFFRIES, 38th Alabama Volunteers, C.S.A.

• Pension Records of Lewis Crow, et al   
• Transcribed applications of War of 1812 survivor, widow, and minor child 
  

Photographic Records

• Fayette County Veterans  
• All wars
  

Search Engines

• Alabama Civil War Service Database  [link to Alabama Department of Archives and History] 
  
• Searchable database
• Sources include muster rolls, governors' correspondence, veterans' censuses, manuscript collections, newspapers, and pension records
  

• Civil War Soldiers and Sailors  [link to U.S. National Park Service]
• Searchable database
• Information limited to the name of the individual, rank in and out, and the name of the organizational unit (i.e., regiment and sometimes the company)