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W. M. Taylor, Co. K, 10th Alabama

A reprinted article of Gettysburg casualties in the 10th Alabama that appeared in the Selma Morning Reporter of 18 July 1863, as reported in a Special Dispatch to the Daily Reporter in Richmond on 16 July, lists a Wm. N. Saylor of Company K as being "slightly wounded in head." I can identify no Saylor in the 10th, but believe the reference is to Private W. M. Taylor of Company K. Taylor is listed as a case in The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion (1861-1865), volume 3 (1870), p. 183. It states that Taylor was wounded on 2 July by a "grapeshot which fractured and depressed a portion of the frontal bone." Taylor was reportedly admitted to the Second Division of the Alabama Hospital in Richmond, and was furloughed on 22 July. The 10th lost some men to Federal artillery fire on 2 July while waiting to begin their charge to and across the Emmitsburg Road, and they lost more men to artillery fire during the charge itself, particularly from Lt. Francis W. Seeley's Battery K, 4th U.S. (consisting of six 12-Pounder smoothbore Napoleons), posted near the Klingle residence on the Emmitsburg Road.

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