Captain A. S. Bibb, resigned early.
Captain J. J. Dillard, killed on
Sand Mountain, Ala., in 1863.
Captain P. D. Ross, who remained
Captain until the close of the war, surrendering with
Lee.
Captain Daniel Butler, died.
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First Lieutenants:
John J. Dillard,
Rufus H. Jones,
P. D. Ross,
John S. Dudley, killed.
Second Lieutenants:
R. H. Jones,
Abner Hammond, killed at
Seven Pines;
Daniel Butler,
J. M. Hardcastle, died after the war of wounds received at
Seven Pines;
J. M. Fletcher.
Captain P. D. Ross and
Lieutenant J. M. Fletcher of Company G, were both wounded, as I was, at the
battle of Gettysburg, and with
Captain Hewlett of Company H, and
Lieutenant George W. Wright, of my company—F, were occupants of the same tent near an old barn used as a field hospital, and during the night of the 3rd of July, 1863, I occupied a blanket near
Lieutenant Fletcher, who had been shot through the body, and was suffering greatly, moaning and groaning during the night so that I was constantly inquiring whether I could do anything for his relief, and being told each time that nothing could be done.
During the latter part of the night I slept, and upon waking the next day I found him lying by my side, cold in death.
He was a quiet, modest, brave young officer.
This company had among its members a well known corporal named
Henry Fowler.
While we were in winter quarters, or, one occasion he was detailed with two men from the Twelfth Alabama, as Brigade Headquarter Guard for
General Rodes.
General Rodes had had a twenty-five pound turkey given him and had invited some of the brigadiers and colonels in his command to a dinner.
It was a current story that this superb gobbler, done to a crisp, with dressing and gravy, but no doubt without cranberries and celery, was on the table in a tent adjoining the
General's sleeping quarters, and, while steaming hot, the cook invited the company to the table.
In some mysterious way, before they could walk the ten or fifteen feet necessary to reach the table, the magnificent bird was wafted out of sight and never more seen, at least by
General Rodes, or any of his company.
The General is reported to have become very angry with
Corporal Fowler and his two brother guards, and expressed himself in very positive language, and during this talk he spoke of
Fowler as belonging to the ‘damned thieving Twelfth Alabama.’
This not very complimentary appellation abided with the Twelfth Alabama, from the time of this incident to the close of the war.
The
Germans, French, Irish and Spaniards, and old sailors from
Mobile, and the mountain boys from
North Alabama, who composed
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a large portion of the Twelfth Alabama, were noted as foragers, and the vast majority of them suffered very little from hunger, despite frequently limited rations issued to the regiment by the commissary.
Many a time I have been aroused by Dick Noble,
Wesley Moore,
Wat.
Zachry,
Jim Lester and others of my company, when we were in bivouac, before the bugle sounded for a day's march, and told that I must get up and eat some fried chicken, or assist them in eating some biscuits and honey, which I was told had been presented (?) to them by some patriotic Virginian living near by.
Company G was made up at
Woodville and
Paint Rock in the southwest corner of
Jackson county, with several members from East Madison and North Marshall counties.
They left
Woodville for
Richmond, Va., the 26th of June, 1861.
When the
Company was re-organized at
Yorktown,
Captain Bibb and
Lieutenants Jones and
Dillard were not re-elected.
I can find no record of what became of
Captain Bibb.
Lieutenant Dillard became a recruiting officer, and was killed by Union men or Tories in the winter of 1864.
Lieutenant Jones joined the Confederate forces of
North Alabama and served through the war.
At the re-organization
Daniel Butler was elected
Captain,
P. D. Ross,
First Lieutenant,
J. M. Hardcastle,
Second Lieutenant, and
Abner Hammond Jr., Second Lieuteuant.
In a few weeks
Captain Butler sickened and died, and on the 31st of May at
Seven Pines Lieutenant Hammond was killed.
Early in June
Lieutenant Ross was made
Captain and
John S. Dudley and
J. M. Fletcher were elected lieutenants.
Lieutenant Dudley was killed at
Chancellorsville on Saturday evening, the first day of the battle, and
Lieutenant Fletcher was killed, as heretofore described, at
Gettysburg.
The first man in Company G that was killed was
Dr. Solomon G. Stevens.
He had been transferred to the 9th Alabama as regimental surgeon, and was killed by a shell thrown in the camp near
Yorktown.
The next one to fall was
Lieutenant Hammond at
Seven Pines, and
Sergt. Richard Bevil,
privates George Kirkland,
Rufus Crawley,
N. T. Clifton,
Jefferson Atchley,
Michael Hoke and
Thomas Smith.
Private William Middleton and
Mike Swister were killed near Culpepper C. H.
Thomas Rogers and
Stuart were killed at
South Mountain.
James Posey, W. H.
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Burks,
Abner Riggins,
Edward Bevil and
A. J. Grizzle were killed at
Sharpsburg.
W. J. Rogers,
Ben Taylor and
Brooks Taylor were killed at
Gettysburg.
Private Samuel Kennemer and
Silas Wright were subsequently killed.
Captain P. D. Ross became a teacher at
Alexandria, Ala., after the war, and also became clerk of the Circuit Court and was a deservedly popular and efficient officer, dying at
Jacksonville, Ala., a few years ago.
