We were furnished, each man with a rifle, as well as our artillery, and our shoulders got sore with the continued kick of the firing. We were moved once along the line nearer the river on the northern line of the Fort.
Here, Lieut. A. C. Hargrove, received the bullet that remained somewhere in his head during the balance of his life.
That afternoon the orders detailing the writer to go to Tuscaloosa came back from headquarters, they were handed to him, and he was ordered to start at once to get the boat that would leave that night. This ended the writer's personal experience in Lumsden's battery. They evacuated with the garrison of the night of April and were transported over to Mobile, wading out into the Bay to meet the relieving boat.
This practically ended the service of the command, which was transported by rail to Meridian and was part of the last organized command surrendered by Gen. Dick Taylor with his Department on the 4th day of May, 1865.
There they went into service near Mobile, and after four years of active service in Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee, Kentucky and Georgia, they were disbanded near the scene of their first service.
LUMSDEN'S BATTERY, (LIGHT ARTILLERY) C. S. A.
1. Charles L. Lumsden Captain. 2. George W. Vaughn Sr. First Lieut. 3. Harvey H. Cribbs Jr. First Lieut. 4. Ebenezer H. Hargrove Sr. Second Lieut. 5. Edward Tarrant Jr. Second Lieut. 6. Joseph Porter Sykes Cadet C. S. A.
1. George Little Orderly Sergeant. 2. John Snow Quartermaster Sergeant. 3. John A. Caldwell Sergeant, First piece, later elected Lieut., and James R. Maxwell appointed in his place. 4. Wiley G. W. Hester Sergeant, Second Piece. 5. Sam Hairston Sergeant, Third Piece. 6. Horace Walpole Martin Sergeant, Fourth Piece. 7. Andrew Coleman Hargrove Sergeant, Fifth Piece. 8. James L. Miller Sergeant, Sixth Piece.
1. J. Wick Brown First Corporal 2. James Cardwell Second Corporal 3. Alex T. Dearing Third Corporal 4. William Hester Fourth Corporal 5. Thomas Owen Fifth Corporal 6. Seth Shepherd Sixth Corporal