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First Corporal, T. B. Norvell.

Second Corporal, Alexander C. Goolsby. Killed at the battle of Sailor's Creek, near the close of the war. He was known to be one of the bravest and best soldiers in the Army of Northern Virginia. His death was peculiarly pathetic, as he had been engaged in almost every battle of his company, and had escaped without a single wound.

Third Corporal, Edward Jones, killed in the battle at Gettysburg.

Fourth Corporal, Newton Brown, dead.

PRIVATE SOLDIERS.

Samuel F. Abraham, right arm lost at the second famous battle of Cold Harbor, where the company decimated by previous engagements had only eleven men for duty, all of whom were killed or wounded with the solitary exception of Vincent A. Tapscott, who escaped only by the fact that he was sent to the rear for more ammunition. This was the battle in which, as Swinburne, the northern historian, states, of the Federals 6,500 were killed outright in less than sixty- ight minutes, and over 13,000 were wounded. During the same battle the Confederate loss amounted to about 3,500 killed and wounded. It would seem improbable that he exaggerated the loss of his own people. It was the same battle in which the Federals made five distinct charges and although General Ulysses S. Grant placed himself at their head on horseback and urged his troops to make the sixth charge, they declined, and as the historian, Swin- burne, truly states, this declination ought not to be the subject of unfavorable comment upon their courage. The writer has been un- able to find any parallel in history to the great mortality in this battle.

William B. Abraham, killed in battle, and said to be the youngest soldier in the Confederate army, and it is probably true.

Reuben T. Adcock.

Henry Adcock.

Ezekiel H. Adcock, died from camp fever.

Bartlett Amos.

George Austin. He was the son of a member of Congress and died a school teacher in West Virginia. At Fort Donelson he dis- tinguished himself by successfully going after water amid a storm of bullets. The boys always laughingly said that he ' ' staggered so that the Yankees could not hit him."

John Agee.