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I found the following interesting information in "Memoirs of the Stuart Horse Artillery Battalion, Moorman's and Hart's Batteries" by Robert J. Trout. Moorman's Battery was first organized in Lynchburg as the Lynchburg Beauregard Rifles in response to a call from Gov. Letcher of Virginia. The company was commanded by Marcellus Newton Moorman. The company went to Richmond and then Norfolk where, with the Confederate States government being unable to furnish them arms as an infantry company, they accepted a battery of artillery and went to war as the Lynchburg Beauregard Artillery. The details given here are based on diaries kept by Lewis Tune Nunnelle who served with the company throughout the war. Their first major action came late in the seven days campaign at Malvern Hill. Our boys, seriously outnumbered, were sent out in an open field to shell a very strong and well entrenched enemy position. The Yankees also held the advantage of elevation and were thus able to pour plunging fire down on our boys. The result was predictable. This book identifies several of the killed and wounded. The report on Robert Seay is as follows on Pg.23. "Robert Seay in a sitting position both feet an buttock shot off and died that night." A footnote to the above states that Robert Seay was a private and a substitute. He served with the battery before its conversion to horse artillery. C.S.R.V., microcopy M324, Roll 338. Under the circumstances, the dead from this action were almost certainly buried near the field of action and probably later removed to a more permanent location. I imagine it would be highly unlikely that his final resting place could be identified with any degree of certainty.

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