Captain Homer’s Company Light Artillery, Alabama State Artillery
[subsequently became Co. A. Ala. State Arty.]

Company Muster Roll
for October 31, 1861
Stationed at Pensacola, Fla.

Record of Events

One Corporal and thirteen Privates were detailed from this company and engaged in sortie on Santa Rosa Island morning of 9 Oct. 1861, when Corporal Walter C. Tuggle was mortally wounded & died of his wounds in the Hospital at Pensacola, Fla. on 28 Oct. 1861.

Private John C. Burgess in same engagement was wounded in head and taken prisoner by the enemy.

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Walter C. Tuggle, Corporal, Company A, Alabama State Artillery, enlisted May 4, 1861 at Pensacola for 12 months, died in Hospital at Pensacola October 28, 1861 from wound received at Santa Rosa Island 9 October, 1861

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John C. Burgress, Private, Company A, Alabama State Artillery, enlisted May 5, 1861 at Mobile, Ala. by Capt. Ketchness for the war, wounded in Santa Rosa October 9, 1861 and now a prisoner in the hands of the enemy, sent to hospital at Mobile July 8, 1862, left sick at Tupelo, Miss. July 9, captured January 6, 1863 at Stones River, forwarded June 8, 1863, from Louisville, Ky. to Baltimore, Md., exchanged at Camp Lee, near Richmond, Va. 19 June, 1863, present at the August 31, 1863 muster, transferred to Company G, General Johnson’s escort February 5, 1864, no further records

M311: Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Alabama