The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1906-09-16

made brigadier general May 81. 1854.
succeeding General Perrin. Sanders
was born soldier, straight as an ar
row, and was especially attractive In
person and manner. He was said by
the Federal soldiers WAC saw hin dur
ing the truce after the Crater to be
the handsomest and best dressed man
they saw. Intellect sparKled IN his
clear blue eyes, and he was as modest
and unassuming In private intercourse
as he was chivalrous and Daring IN
battle Our loss in the battle above
described by Captain Pagan was sIeven
killed, wounded and missing.
AT the battle OF Reams, Station on
August IS. the sth was in reserve and
lost nothing.
From this point the regiment re-
turned to Fetersburs. and our brigade.
relieving rinnegan s, was stationed
near Battery No. u. where it remained
until OctoDer 81. when at the battle
of Burgess's Mill IL was only slightly
engaged and lost seven men, wounded.
After this tgin It returned to its old
position near Battery No. 80, where 1t
stayed until November 2, when Il was
removed to the right of our lines IN
front OF Petersburg. ana there built
huts for the winter.
Hilary A. Herbert, still at home and
suffering from the wound received at
the Wilderness, was promoted to be
colonel of the regiment November 2,
1864, and shortly thereafter was re-
tired FOR disability. incident to the SER
vice. Major John p. Enrich, who at
the Wilderness was absent on account
of sickness, shortly afterwards re-
turned to the regiment and was in
command of II as major until Novem-
Der 5, 1864. when he was pro-
| NOTED to be lieutenant colonel. On
| the same day Captain Duke Nall. of
Company K. was promoted to major
| Captain Nall at the Wilderness was
shot through the lungs, but 1t was
supposed he had entirely recovered
and he returned 10 the regiment, where
he did gallant service until after his
promotion; during the winter of 1863 :.
\ he was attacked by pneumonia. In
flammation set up IN his old wound.
and his death resulted. The regiment
never had two Drawer or more faithful
officers than Colonei Enrich and Ma
| jor Nall.
| Lieutenant Colonel Enrich remained
in command up to Appomattox, where
he was paroled. By the promotion of
Captain Nall OF Company K, to be ma
| jor, Lieutenant william L. Pagan
| (whose diary is SO often quoted in
these records as Captain" Fagan's).
1 CSdbcd 10 NC iltultiAul anu DCEdtnc
captain of Company K, and he, too,
was at Appomattox. as will hereafter
/ appear.
| On December 6, Mahone's division,
/ including the Sth Alabama, marched
on an expedition the purpose of which
/ was to intercept a large body of the
enemy under General Warren. which
was raiding to destroy the railroad
1t reached Barbour's Mill December 8.
and went through Dinwiddie, c. H T.
On the 9Th 1t left camp at dawn. AN
Saturday it again left camp at dawn,
moving parallel with the railroad az.
skirmishing with the enemy. Re-
turned to camp on December IL, hav-
] ing marched that day twenty miles
/ This march was through rain and sleet
and snow, and was altogether one OF
| the most distressing and fatiguing
marches ever made by our men.
| 1t was while encamped in winter
| quarters that the Historical Memoran-
da, from which many of the facts
| above narrated are CLEANED, were made
out and signed by Lieutenant Colonel
John P Enrich. on the LIST day of jan
uary, 1865.
| Here follows the consolidated roll o.
| the regiment, Exclusive Of Field and
Staff" made out in camp on the 31st
day of December. 1864, and then a re-
capitalization. including t1eld and staff
made out and signed by Colonel EN-
rich on the next day. the LIST of Janu-
larry, 1865. A study of these casualties
will prove instructive and it is highly
creditable to the conscripts most OF
whom no doubt were native Alaham-
lians. The conscripts came TO the reg
iment at Banks Ford, sometime prior
to the battle of Salem Church. They
had been in none of the bloody bat
tiles of 1862. They numbered alto