In mid-July 1861, men from Mt. Pinson formed the Jefferson Warriors. Marching to Huntsville, they were mustered into the Confederate army on August 12th as Company C of the Nineteenth Alabama Infantry Regiment under the command of Colonel Joseph Wheeler. The regiment fought in major battles at Shiloh, Murfreesboro, Chickamauga, Missionary Ridge, Atlanta, Nashville, and Bentonville, N.C., and suffered such losses that only 76 members of the regiment were present at the surrender in April 1865.