The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-01-22
MEMORIALS FOR
ALABAMA TROOPS
IN V|CKsBURG PARK
Heroic Statue of General For
ney and Other Confederate
Memorials to Be Erected
in Military Park

The Vicksburg national military
park commission of the war depart
ment at Vicksburg, Miss, have asked
the legislatures of the six states
who had Confederate commands in
the VicksburG operations, and who
are now in session. for appropriations
by each for work in the Vicksburg
national military park.
The states asked for appropriations
are, Alabama, state memorial, three
monuments and bronze heroic
statue of Maj. Gen. John H. Forney;
Arkansas, state memorial, three mon
uments and one marker; North Car
DINA, memorial monument; South
Carolina, memorial monument; Ten
ncssee, memorial monument, and
Texas, memorial monument. In each
case the work contemplated will
commemorate and honor the devotion.
patriotism and service of the Con-
federate soldiers engaged in the
Vicksburg operations.
Forney's Division
Monument inscriptions for the state
of Alabama and approved OF by the
war department are:
Forney's division, Maj. Gen. John
H Forney. Hebert's brigade, Second
artillery battalion. Company c, Capt.
T. X. Emanuel, Lieut.. ]. r. Selater;
killed 7, wounded 6. total 10; Capt
7. X. Emanuel killed.
Moore's brigade. Alabama battery,
Capt H. H. Sengstak. Killed 4,
wounded I, total II. Thirty seventh
infantry, Col. James F. Dowdell
killed 16, wounded IS, total 81.
Fortieth infantry, Col. John II. Hig-
ley. Killed IS. wounded 80, total 81.
Forty-second infantry. Col. John w.
Ports, Lieut.. Col. T. G. Lanier. Col
John w. Ports Killed S. wounded
10, total II. Lieut. c. w. Bodie killed.
stevenson's Division
Alabama battery, Capt. James F..
waddell Killed 49, wounded 40,
missing 5, total So.
Second brigade. Brig. Gen. e. D.
Tracy, Col. !. w. Garrett Twentieth
infantry, Col Isham w. CARROT,
Lieut.. Col. E w. Pettus. Col. Isham
w. Carrot, Col Edmund w. Pettus.
Twenty third infantry, Col. Franklin
X. Beck. Thirtieth infantry, Col. c.
NJ. Shelley. Capt. John c. Francis.
Thirty-first infantry. Col. D. R. Humid
ley, Lieut.. Col. T. NJ. Arlington, Mai.
George w. Mathieson, Lieut.. Col I.
NJ. Arlington. Fortysixth infantry,
Col. NJ L. Woods, Capt. George e.
Brewer, Lieut.. Col. E. w. Pettus.
capt. george II. BREWER. Casualties
not fully reported. Killed 1Sl,
wounded 401. missing 1853. total 1885.
Brig. Gen. E. D. Tracy, Col. (Brig.
GEM Isham w Carrot, Maj. A. S.
Pickering (Twentieth), Capt. David
NJ Anderson (Thirtieth), Lieuts. j. Is.
p Cotton and J. T. House (Forty-
SIXTH, and one other officer killed.
Johnston's Army
Breckinridge's division, Adams
brigade. Thirty infantry.
Lieut.. Col. Henry Maury. Kentucky
brigade Forty first infantry, Col. NJ.
L. Stansel. Loring's division, Second
brigade Alabama battery, Capt. s.
Carpenter.
Loring's division, Third brigade;
Twenty seventh infantry, Col. James
Jackson, Thirty-fifth infantry Col.
Edward Goodwin; Fifty-fourth in
fantry, Col. Alpheus Baker; Fifty
fifth infantry. Col. John Snodgrass.
Division engaged Champions Hill
May 16. Casualties in Alabama regi-
ments not fully reported Capt. W..
A. Isbell, Lieut.. T. S. Taylor Twenty
seventy, and Acting Lieut.. George Z.
Hubbard (Thirty-fifth), killed.
Walkers division. Ector's brigade;
battalion sharpshooters, Maj. t. O..
Stone.