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its organization and equipment. The following is a list of the officers:

Captains: William H. C. Price, resigned after one year's service; D. H. Garrison, E. H. Rowell.

First Lieutenants: W. S. Goodwyn, B. F. O'Neal, now an honored citizen of South Sulphur, Tex. ; J. Thomas Scott, promoted from sergeant and resigned, now dead; D. H. Garrison, E. H. Rowell, now living at Funston, Tex., a physician.

Second Lieutenants Wm. A. Scott, resigned; Wm. Himes, re- signed, recently Railroad Commissioner of Florida, and a popular citizen of that State, lives at Bushnell t Florida.

TWELFTH ALABAMIANS WHO SURRENDERED AT APPOMATTOX, APRIL gTH, 1865.

Below I copy from Volume XV, pages 244-46 of the Southern Historical Society Papers a list of the paroles issued to the members of the Twelfth Alabama. It is a pitifully small list and painfully shows how dreadfully this noble band of heroic soldiers had dimin- ished from the eleven hundred and ninety-six which formed the reg- iment on the 1 2th of June, 1861. These names deserve to be em- blazoned forever on the rolls of fame, and to go down in history with the brave Spartans who fought at Thermopylae.

Of those who survive now from this list I can only locate a few. Among those are:

Sergeant George W. Thomas of Company B, who lives near Al- exander city, in Coosa county, Alabama.

Sergeant James H. Eason of Company F, who lives at Tallassee, Alabama.

Private William A. Moore of Company F, who lives in Neches, Texas.

Dr. Daniel S. Patterson of Company K, who lives at Montgom- ery, Ala.

The post-offices of the others are not known to me, and I deeply regret that I cannot put them in this list.

Those who surrendered, as given in this book of "Paroles", are

as follows:

TWELFTH ALABAMA REGIMENT.

Company A.

Privates: John Arnold, T. S. Hazzard, detailed shoemaker, John Ford, Reuben Popewell.