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/770.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: To my knowledge, the only rosters available exist on microfilm produced by the National Archives. The Alabama Confederate records are labeled M311 and the 18th Alabama covers reels 263-270. Outside the National Archives, the only libraries where complete sets of this microfilm exist are in Hanceville and Birmingham AL. Sometimes people visit the ADAH in Montgomery expecting to find Confederate service records there. The ADAH has a card file on many soldiers which they are placing on-line, but service record microfilm isn't available there. Sometimes researchers having a long-term interest in specific units purchase microfilm from the National Archives. I'm not sure about prices today, but it's at least $25 per reel. Of course you'll need access to a microflim reader. In your case, most soldiers who belonged to Company "L" of this command also belonged to Companies "A" and "G" of Blount's Battalion. After February of 1863, these men were returned to their original command, the 9th Alabama Infantry Battalion. So you'll need that microfilm as well. It's included in film for the 58th Alabama Infantry Regiment, reels 463-465. Zane Geier edited a history of the 18th Alabama which is available on line. If you look at the bottom of the page, you'll see service record summaries of the field, staff and company commanders, which I composed. It took several weeks to review the microfilm for this brief composition: http://www.mindspring.com/~spbarber429/18ala.htm If you are looking for a specific name or names, I can check those. Please contact me at pittsaj14@hotmail.com if you need a Confederate service record. Here's an older from the Alabama Civil War Message Board about another family that had members in this company: http://www.kingwoodcable.com/tsalagi/alcwmb/archive/archivefiles/6100.html