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Eugene Pillard

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Eugene Pillard

Birth
Mobile, Mobile County, Alabama, USA
Death
16 Apr 1915 (aged 82–83)
Mobile, Mobile County, Alabama, USA
Burial
Mobile, Mobile County, Alabama, USA Add to Map
Plot
Square 23-Lot 47
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Son of Sylvester Pillard & Delphine Quvis

Private, Company A, 12th Regiment, Alabama Infantry. The 12th Infantry Regiment was formed at Richmond, Virginia, in July, 1861. Its members were from Montgomery and Mobile, and the counties of Coosa, Pike, Coffee, De Kalb, Macon, Jackson, and Morgan. During the war, it served under Generals Rodes, O'Neal, and Battle, Army of Northern Virginia. The unit took an active part in the campaigns of the army from Williamsburg to Cold Harbor, fought with Early in the Shenandoah Valley, and saw action in the Appomattox Campaign. In April, 1862, it contained 550 men, lost fifty-one percent of the 408 engaged at Seven Pines, and had 27 killed, 69 wounded, and 33 missing during the Maryland Campaign. Subsequent casualties were thirty-six percent of the 330 at Chancellorsville and thirty-one percent of the 271 at Gettysburg. It surrendered with 5 officers and 62 men. The field officers were Colonels Bristor B. Gayle, Robert T. Jones, and Samuel B. Pickens; Lieutenant Colonels John C. Goodgame, Theodore O'Hara, and E.D. Tracy; and Majors J.C. Brown, Adolph Proskander, and Augustus Stikes.
Son of Sylvester Pillard & Delphine Quvis

Private, Company A, 12th Regiment, Alabama Infantry. The 12th Infantry Regiment was formed at Richmond, Virginia, in July, 1861. Its members were from Montgomery and Mobile, and the counties of Coosa, Pike, Coffee, De Kalb, Macon, Jackson, and Morgan. During the war, it served under Generals Rodes, O'Neal, and Battle, Army of Northern Virginia. The unit took an active part in the campaigns of the army from Williamsburg to Cold Harbor, fought with Early in the Shenandoah Valley, and saw action in the Appomattox Campaign. In April, 1862, it contained 550 men, lost fifty-one percent of the 408 engaged at Seven Pines, and had 27 killed, 69 wounded, and 33 missing during the Maryland Campaign. Subsequent casualties were thirty-six percent of the 330 at Chancellorsville and thirty-one percent of the 271 at Gettysburg. It surrendered with 5 officers and 62 men. The field officers were Colonels Bristor B. Gayle, Robert T. Jones, and Samuel B. Pickens; Lieutenant Colonels John C. Goodgame, Theodore O'Hara, and E.D. Tracy; and Majors J.C. Brown, Adolph Proskander, and Augustus Stikes.

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