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Third Alabama Casualty list from the Battle of Seven Pines, 1862

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Third Alabama Casualty list from the Battle of Seven Pines, 1862

charbmoore1  (View posts) Posted: 3 Jun 2012 9:16AM GMT
Classification: Military
Surnames: Lomax, Johnson, Mayes, ellis, Broun, Ready, Phelan, Robinson, etc.
From the Mobile, Alabama Newspaper:

1862:

• RICHMOND, JUNE 2. -- Our regiment, the Third Alabama, were in the battle yesterday and badly cut up. Col. Lomax and Adjutant Johnson were killed.

"Captain R.L. Mayes, (Tuskegee Light Infantry and Lieutenants James Broun (Cadets) and Henry Ellis (Gulf City Guards) were also killed.

"Captains E.S. Ready, (Wetumpka Life Guards), W. Phelan (Co. F), and Robinson (Co. H), and Lieutenants Witherspoon (Cadets), Gardner (Mobile Rifles), and Partridge (Gulf City Guards), are wounded.

"Privates Brooks, Branch, Jeffreys and Monk are reported killed; and Sergeant Bingham, and privates W.T. Anderson, Brennan, A. Hall, Langdon, Jones, Partridge, Russell, Tarleton, Turner and Weaver, wounded, besides others missing from company B.

"Tom Scott, of the Cadets, and James Letchell and of the Mobile Rifles are also killed, and Tom Bell, of the Mobile Rifles, are also killed. It is impossible to give details. I am safe, with only a slight scratch. D.W.L."

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