About one mile south-southwest of here stood Fort Browder, a small wooden fortification built in 1836 for protection in the last war with the Creek Indians and named for Isham Browder, a prominent local planter. In 1861, the fort witnessed the formation of a Confederate infantry company known as the Fort Browder Roughs, initially commanded by Captain Moses Worthington. The Roughs were subsequently enrolled as Company D, 15th Alabama Infantry. Of the 106 officers and men of Company D, 21 were killed in battle, including 1 captain and 2 lieutenants, 46 were wounded but survived, and 26 died of disease. The 15th Alabama Infantry was recruited from Barbour, Dale, Henry, Macon, Pike, and Russell Counties and organized at Ft. Mitchell in Russell County in the summer of 1861. The unit fought in many skirmishes and battles including Winchester, Virginia, on May 25, 1862; Cross Keys, Virginia, on June 8, 1862; Cold Harbor, Virginia, on June 27, 1862; Malvern Hill, Virginia, on July 2, 1862; Cedar Mountain, Virginia, on August 9, 1862; Second Manassas, Virginia, on August 28-30, 1862; Chantilly, Virginia, on September 1, 1862; Sharpsburg, Virginia, on September 17, 1862; Fredericksburg, Virginia, on December 23, 1862; Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, on July 2-5, 1863; Chickamauga, Georgia, on September 19-20, 1863; Wilderness, Virginia, on May 6, 1864; Spotsylvania CH, Virginia, on May 8-19, 1864; North Anna, Virginia, on May 25, 1864; 2nd Cold Harbor, Virginia, on June 3, 1864; and in the vicinity of Petersburg, Virginia, from June 1864 to April 1865. Of the 1612 officers and men who joined the 15th Alabama, 279 were killed in battle, 599 were wounded, and 459 died of disease. Only 172 remained to surrender with General Lee at Appomattox CH on April 9, 1865.