Pleasant Ridge, Alabama

Pleasant Ridge, also known as Ridge, is an unincorporated community in Greene County, Alabama, United States. Pleasant Ridge is located on Alabama State Route 14, 17.2 miles (27.7 km) northwest of Eutaw.

Pleasant Ridge, Alabama
Unincorporated community
Pleasant Ridge
Pleasant Ridge
Coordinates: 33°00′51″N 88°05′01″W
CountryUnited States
StateAlabama
CountyGreene
Elevation
305 ft (93 m)
Time zoneUTC-6 (Central (CST))
 • Summer (DST)UTC-5 (CDT)
Area code(s)205, 659
GNIS feature ID155209[1]

History

A post office operated under the name Pleasant Ridge from 1825 to 1918.[2] On April 6, 1865, there was a skirmish between Union forces under the command of Brigadier General John T. Croxton and Confederate forces under the command of Brigadier-General William Wirt Adams near Pleasant Ridge. Croxton was leaving Tuscaloosa, having burned the University of Alabama on April 4.[3] The 6th Kentucky Cavalry Regiment and the 2nd Michigan Volunteer Cavalry Regiment engaged with Adams' forces.[4] Union casualties were three killed in action, eight wounded, sixty-eight captured. Adams's Confederate force suffered nine killed, twenty-five wounded, and one captured.[5]

References
  1. "Pleasant Ridge". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey.
  2. "Tuscaloosa County". Jim Forte Postal History. Retrieved 30 November 2015.
  3. Willis Brewer (1872). Alabama, Her History, Resources, War Record, and Public Men: From 1540 to 1872. Barrett & Brown. pp. 260.
  4. Benson John Lossing (1874). The Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War in the United States of America. T. Belknap. pp. 2.
  5. Scott W. Owens, "The Federal Invasion of Pickens County," The Alabama Review, April 2009, 62(2):83-112


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