John M. Autrey, Veteran of the Civil War
A graduate of the University of Alabama, John Autrey was elected to the rank of Sergeant of Company G of the 26th Alabama Infantry Regiment. This regiment was organized at Corinth, Mississippi in March 1862. Through consolidation of the 26th with the 2nd and 5th Infantry Battalions, the designation was changed in June 1863 to the 50th Alabama Infantry Regiment.
At Shiloh, 700 men of this regiment were engaged, 12 were killed and 111 wounded. At the Battle of Murfreesboro, the regiment had a loss of about 200 men of the men 600 engaged. The regiment moved to the assault at Chickamauga about 500 strong, of which about one-fifth were killed or wounded. At Mission Ridge 45 men were captured. The regiment lost heavily in the bloody battles around Atlanta. The unit moved into Tennessee with General Hood, and was badly mutilated at Franklin. The regiment proceeded to the Carolinas, and it was at Kinston that a line of skirmishers, some 40 strong, principally men from West Alabama, captured a stand of colors and 300 men of the 15th Connecticut. The Twenty-sixth-Fiftieth laid down its arms at Greensboro, North Carolina with General Johnston's forces.
To locate the final, solve:
33 12.2AB
87 33.8CD
A = The second digit in the date of his death.
B = The first digit in the date of his birth.
C = The first digit in the number of men of this regiment that were engaged at Shiloh.
D = The fourth digit in the year of his birth.