This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/xhC.2ACE/744.1 Message Board Post: You requested additional information: Company “A” of the 15th Alabama Partisan Ranger Battalion was recruited in Autauga and Montgomery Counties and called the “Fleming Freeman Rebels”. Members elected A. W. DeBardeleben as their captain. This officer later served as Lieutenant Colonel of the 56th Alabama Partisan Ranger Regiment. The “Fleming Freeman Rebels” were accepted in Confederate service at Camp Forney near Montgomery, Alabama, June 2, 1862. This company later served as Company “A” of the 56th Alabama Partisan Ranger Regiment. William S. Brewer appears on the descriptive roll of the company as age 28, farmer, grey eyes, light hair and fair complexion, 6 feet tall. He enlisted for the duration of the war. On August 25, 1862, four companies of partisan rangers camped at Hall’s Mills, Alabama, about eleven miles south of Mobile. The battalion picketed west of Mobile and sometimes skirmished with Federal outposts in Mississippi until the late spring of 1863. About that time it was ordered to northeast Mississippi. This command combined with the 13th Alabama Partisan Ranger Battalion to form the 56th Alabama Partisan Ranger Regiment June 8, 1863, as confirmed by the Adjutant and Inspector General July 8, 1863. From this time forward the regiment served in General Samuel W. Ferguson's Brigade. Ferguson's men formed the Confederate rear guard at Meridian MS in Feb. 1864, at Atlanta in Sept. 1864, and served as part of President Davis' escort in the Carolinas in April 1865. The 56th Alabama disbanded at Forsyth GA. W. S. Brewer's name appears on the final roll of the regiment at Forsyth.