# Barnes, Alabama

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**Barnes**, also known as **Barnes Cross Roads** or **Burns**, is an [unincorporated community](/source/Unincorporated_area) in [Dale County](/source/Dale_County,_Alabama), [Alabama](/source/Alabama), United States. Barnes is located on [Alabama State Route 123](/source/Alabama_State_Route_123), 4.6 miles (7.4 km) south-southeast of [Ariton](/source/Ariton,_Alabama).

## History

A post office operated under the name Barnes Cross Roads from 1844 to 1895.[2]

Company B (known as "The Dale County Grays") of the [33rd Regiment Alabama Infantry](/source/33rd_Regiment_Alabama_Infantry) was partially made up of men from Barnes.[3] A portion of the [15th Regiment Alabama Infantry](/source/15th_Regiment_Alabama_Infantry) also came from Barnes.[4]

## References

1. ["Dale County"](http://www.postalhistory.com/postoffices.asp?task=display&state=AL&county=Dale). Jim Forte Postal History. Retrieved 28 December 2015.

1. Tait, Terri. ["33rd Alabama Co. B"](https://web.archive.org/web/20100708051936/http://www.usgennet.org/usa/al/county/barbour/CSA/33rd_alabama_co.htm). *usgennet.org*. Archived from [the original](http://www.usgennet.org/usa/al/county/barbour/CSA/33rd_alabama_co.htm) on July 8, 2010. Retrieved 28 December 2015.

1. James P. Faust (29 October 2014). [*The Fighting Fifteenth Alabama Infantry: A Civil War History and Roster*](https://books.google.com/books?id=UMmLBQAAQBAJ&pg=PP12). McFarland. p. 12. ISBN 978-1-4766-1856-2.

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