Phillip Roddey (2 April 1826-20 July 1897) was a Confederate brigadier-general during the American Civil War.
Biography[]
Phillip Roddey was born in Moulton, Alabama in 1826, and he worked as a tailor before serving as Lawrence County sheriff from 1846 to 1852. He joined the Confederate States Army after the Union Army invaded Alabama in 1862, and he led a cavalry company at the Battle of Shiloh before fighting at Corinth and under Nathan Bedford Forrest as colonel of the 4th Alabama Cavalry Regiment. Most of his command was captured at the Battle of Selma at the end of the war, after which he moved to Tuscaloosa and later to New York City and London, where he died in 1897.