The regiment was instrumental in the raid to capture a train load of cattle destined for General Sherman during the Atlanta Campaign.

The unit continued a guerrilla action as General Sherman marched to the sea in his scorched earth campaign to Savannah.

The law was intended as a stimulus for recruitment of irregulars for service into the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War.

Men of this command were from the counties of Autauga, Butler, Lauderdale, Macon, Pike, Coosa, Tallapoosa, Dallas, Perry, Monroe, Wilcox, Lowndes, Dale, Coffee, and Montgomery.

[1] Hannon's Brigade was in Sumter County, South Carolina when they received word to cease fire on April 21, 1865.