Watts organized the 17th Infantry and led it at Pensacola and Corinth,[1] but resigned as its colonel to serve as the Confederacy's attorney general in President Jefferson Davis' cabinet.

[citation needed] The regiment surrendered at Greensboro, North Carolina in April 1865.

When regiment was organized at Montgomery, Alabama, it took 900 men hailing from Coosa, Lowndes, Montgomery, Pike, Randolph, Monroe, Butler, and Russell counties.

[2] The regiment sustained particularly heavy losses in 1864 after it joined the Army of Tennessee.

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