Seeing as your assigned man appears to have died during the height of Vicksburg Siege in June 1863 as a member of Gen J.C. Moore's Brigade, here's a firsthand passage from the post-war memoir of former Private S.L. Burney (Co G, 37th Alabama -- also in Moore's Brigade) written about 1913 describing events in the trenches a few weeks prior to your subject's death:

"... On May 22nd [1863], they [Federal troops] made a tremendous assault on Moore's Brigade, composed of the 37th Alabama, 40th [Alabama] and 42nd Alabama, 2nd Texas and one Mississippi regiment ... This assault was made I was told by one entire division, some 15 or 16 thousand men. The greatest pressure was against the 2nd Texas and 40 and 42 Alabama regiments. At this point, their line was only 150 yards distant. At a given signal they bounded at our men in a dead run, but their ranks were literally cut to pieces by our infantry and artillery. The field guns were double charged with canister put up in tin cans containing about 75 balls to the can. As they leave the gun the box is ripped and the mortality is fearful at so short a range and in the dense masses in which they came at our men.

Notwithstanding this fearful slaughter, some of them reached our trenches, only to be knocked in the heads with butts of guns or run through with bayonets. These charges were repeated several times. They only got possession along the line at one point, opposite the 42nd Alabama. and held this only a few minutes. Colonel Pettus of the 42nd Alabama called for volunteers to retake the fort which they did in gallant style killing and capturing all that had entered. This put an end to their efforts for by this time the ground was literally blue with their dead and wounded men. Those dead men lay just where they fell for three days. The weather being hot, this was fearful to bear.

General Pemberton sent to Grant a flag of truce with the request that he bury his dead. This was accepted and an armistice was declared for a few hours to permit them to perform this sad and awful task. Permission was granted to some of us to view the burial, myself among the number. They went to work with pick and shovel. They would dig along side of a dead man, push his body in with the shovel and cover much too shallow, I thought. The part of the burial ground visited by me was at the fort on the line of the 2nd Texas. This was indeed a veritable slaughter pen. It was said that in front of this fort and regiment lay 800 dead men and I am sure it looked so to me.

While here a man of the burial party from Illinois was recognized by one of our men from LaFayette, Alabama who had moved from LaFayette just about one year before the war began. I remember his asking about several men in LaFayette, among them Tip Marable. Here he was fighting probably some of his kinsmen. A man from the 2nd Texas told me that a color-bearer of an Illinois regiment succeeded in planting his colors on the brink of a ditch they were in. They just reached out and pulled him in saying that he was too brave a man to kill. This was magnanimous and the act of a brave man. ..."