12th Alabama Infantry Regiment Company D

Known as the "Coffee County Rangers" or the "Coffee County Vols"

The Coffee County Rangers was organized before the war as a home militia.

The initial muster roll was dated December 6, 1860 (one month before Alabama

seceded). The unit was officially commissioned by an Act of the Confederate

Congress on the 21st of August 1861. The unit became Company D of the 12th

Alabama Infantry Regiment.

This was the first combat unit to form in Coffee County and march off to war.

Our purpose is to associate in one united, compact body of men of Confederate

ancestry, and cultivate, perpetuate, and sanctify the ties of fraternity and friendship

entailed thereby; to aid and encourage the history and achievement from

Jamestown to this present era, constantly endeavoring to see that events of the

War Between the States and the heroic contributions of the Confederate soldiers

are authentically and clearly written, and that all documents, relics, and momentoes

produced and handed down by those active participants therein are properly

treasured and preserved for posterity; to aid and assist in the erection of suitable

and enduring monuments and memorials to all Southern valor, civil and military,

wherever done and where found; to instill into our descendants a devotion to and

reverence for the principles represented by the Confederate States of America, to

honor, glory, and memory of our forefathers who fought in that Cause.