| From the Augusta Constitutionalist |
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| September 28, 1864 |
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| List of Men Killed on the Train Near Fort
Valley {on the South Western RR}, September 23d, 1864 |
| Thos. Kerley, co G, 20th
Tenn.; G. F. Copeland, co I, 41st Ga; L. H. Durden, co A, 15th Ark; W.
J. Bushart, co I, 5th Tenn; W. A. Sanders, co A, 40th Ga; Kirkpatrick,
co F, 17th Ala; E. Melton, citizen, Banton county Tenn; P. T. Hicks,
Cherokee Artillery; Wm. Chancelly, co A, 30th Ga; W. J. Martin, co B,
57th Ala; J. F. Hunter, co B, 1st S. C. Artillery; F. M. Howell, co B,
46th Miss; G. W. Hall, co H, 30th Tenn; J. T. Lovegood, co H, 12th
Miss cav; S. S. Medowe, co F, 2d Ga; W. A. Kemper, co B, 18th Tenn; R.
P. Wamack, co D, 46th Miss; J. V. Emerson, co B, 2d Ky; T. L. Savage,
co C, 38th Ala; A. J. Richardson, co E, 11th Tenn; T. T. Conart, co E,
37th Ala; D. R. Reed, co B, 6th Ky; J. M. Key, co K, 7th Texas; J. H.
Patterson, co F, 36th Ala; T. Alcock, co E, 6th Ky; A. G. Pitt, co K,
20th Tenn; D. Mann, co E, 29th Tenn; W. S. Purswell, co G, 29th Ala;
D. E. Curry, co F, 18th Tenn; R. Bryant, co K, 32d & 58th Ala; G.
A. Yergea, co D, 28th Miss cav; J. D. L. Crubbs; A. F. Williams,
Seldon'a Ala Battery; A. P. Slogle, co B, 58th N. C.; J. M. Baird, co
G, 1st Ark; Benj. Blackford, co F, 9th Ky; S. G. Ashby, co G, 7th Ark;
R. H. Hudson, Massenger's Battery; M. T. Newton, co H, 33d Tenn; T. J.
McAlpin, co H, 46th Miss; B. Shirley, co G, 1st Ga S S; J. L. Beers,
Fenner's Battery; Chas. S. Slover, co K, 4th Ga cav. |
| MR. EDITOR: You will confer a
great favor on the public generally by publishing the above list of
soldiers killed by the train running off the track near this place. |
| J. C. B. Mitchell |
| Col, Com'd'g Post Fort Valley |
| Jas. A. Culberson, Adj't. |
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