June 17 1863 [Wednesday]

Early in the day Colonel Garret [Garrott], 20th Alabama, was shot dead through a porthole in our fortifications by a Yankee sharpshooter. [Travels of the 43rd Regiment, Tennessee Volunteers, Diary of Isaac J. Stamper, Fife Major, 43rd Tennessee Infantry, CSA] [https://dcms.lds.org/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?dps_pid=IE1668359]

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HDQRS. SECOND BRIGADE, Stevenson'S DIVISION.

Demopolis, ALA.

July 25, 1863.

SIR: I have the honor to submit the following reported of the part taken in our operations during the siege of Vicksburg by the troops under my command, consisting of the Twentieth Alabama Regiment, colonel I. W. Garrott; Twenty-THIRD Alabama, colonel F. K. Beck, THIRTIETH Alabama, colonel C. M. Shelley; Thirty-first Alabama Regiment, lieutenant Colonel T. M. Arrington, forty-SIXTH Alabama REGIMENT, captain George E. Brewer; Waul's Texas Legion, colonel T. N. Waul; Waddell's battery, Captain J. W. Waddell Drews battery, lieut. W. J. Duncan, the Hudson Battery, lieutenant Captain Haynes, company First Louisiana Artillery, and a section of the Vaiden Artillery. Lieutenant Collins: . . . .

. . . The officers who particularly attracted my attention were: Colonel Garrott, twentieth Alabama, the pure patriot and gallant soldier, who was killed on June 17, while in the fearless discharge of his duties. Respected and loved by all who knew him, a more attentive and vigilant officer was not in our service. . . .
STEPHEN D. LEE,

Brigadier-General, commanding.
[OR V36, Pt. 2, pp. 35o-352]