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Abram Beach Reading was the nephew of the cannon manufacturer Abram B. Reading. He was killed at the battle of Savage Station in June, 1862. Roswell V. Booth, a member of Company A, wrote in his reminiscences about the death of Reading, "In this fight, which lasted but comparatively a short while, the "Southrons" lost two of their best men, Beach Reading and Frank Hume, and the first casualties they had suffered since entering the service. I saw them just before they were put into the ambulance to go to Richmond, and by a strange coincidence, each was wounded in the same way, in the bowels, Frank on the right, and Beach on the left side.

Taken from PRIVATE MEMORANDA, Volume III, page 10. A copy of this manuscript is at the Old Court House Museum, Vicksburg, Mississippi.