Whakaotihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: I whakaritea te 4th Alabama Infantry Regiment i Dalton, Georgia, i te 2 o Mei 1861. Ko te rangatira taketake ko Colonel Barnard E. Bee nana i whakahau te (3rd) brigade i te Manassas Tuatahi, i reira i mate ai a Bee me te rangatira hou o te ope, Egbert I. Jones, i te mahi. Ko Lt.Col. Katahi ka whakatairangahia a Evander McIvor Law, a ka riro ia hei Koronela o te ope taua. I whawhai rātau i te
E whitu nga pakanga Pines me nga pakanga o Manassas Tuarua, Sharpsburg, me Fredericksburg. I whakatairangahia a Law ki te Brigadier General i te Oketopa 3,1862. I hoatu te whakahau ki a Colonel Pinckney Downie Bowles. I muri mai ka whawhai te ope ki nga pakanga katoa o te piritiata.