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Two additions, possibly three:
1. 1st Lt RM Andress, Co H 17th Alabama, Battle of Peach Tree Creek July 20 1864
2. William Henry McMillan, 2nd Lt. Co H. 17th Ala Inf KIA Lickskillet Road (or the 'Poor House')
3. A Lt Harrison KIA Lickskillet Road

The source of this information is the Journal of Captain William Wallace McMillan of Co. H 17th Ala Inf. 'Scotland Invincibles', in my posession. I will post the passage that mentions these three deaths below. As the passage will show, he says the Co 'Lost Andress" and several others. As far as being KIA I am not sure, but perhaps it could be checked up on. William Henry McMillan was definatly killed at 'The Poor House" and I am not sure who the Harrison is. The Journal goes straight from speaking of Peach Tree Creek to Lickskillet Road so I have pasted the text in full length below:

" During my absence the Regt was engaged in the Battle of Peach Tree Creek on the 20th of July. Here my company lost Lt. RM Andress, Privates NK Chisholm, CT Deese, H Templin, ML Wiggins and a number wounded. It was a pretty bloody fight. I judge from what I heard. I reached my company about 10 or 11 O"clock on the night of 28th July and was guilty of lying down listening to the men relate their hairbreadth escapes on the 20th when we were ordered to 'fall in'. We were then occupying Atlanta, to which place they had fallen back during my absence. We marched by the left flank until we reached Lickskillet Road, where the entrenchments crossed it, and passed out through the entrenchments. We now thought we were going to make a reconnaissance, but soon the order to 'double quick' was given, and a few minutes afterwards I heard brisk firing from small arms. We marched and counter-marched very rapidly and now it seemed that the Gen was satisfied with our position. The heat was almost intolerable, the firing in our front was now very heavy. We were ordered to lie down as the bullets were very thick, but as the line was in an open old field with nothing to shield us from the sun, we suffered intensely from the heat, especially as we were fatigued by our previous marching. I felt the heat more seriously as I had just returned from the hospital and was suffering from weakness from my recent illness. Maj. Burnett commanded, Capt. Ragland acted as Lt. Col, and I as Major. The Brigade, Deas I think, which was in our front was repulsed and our brigade commanded by Col EA ONeal was now ordered forward. Our line charged them but found them strongly posted behind piles of rails, and in a good position. We were also repulsed but falling back about a hundred yards continued to fight until our brigade was almost decimated. Capt. Ragland, Lt. W H McMillan Co. H acting Adj. and Lt. Harrison were killed. Major Burnett was seriously injured in the shoulder. Capt. OBrien lost a leg. I was painfully wounded in the hand. Corporal JM Davison and privates NJ Robinson and D. Faulkenberry of my Co. were killed, and many others wounded. This was the battle of "The Poor House". It was a shocking affair and I think our Generals were ashamed of it, as I noticed very little was said in relation to the affair."

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