Mobile Register
June 18, 1861
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SOLDIER KILLED BY HIS COMRADES—On Sunday afternoon last a fatal accident
occurred in the encampment of the 1st Regiment Louisiana
Volunteers. At the close of the
afternoon parade, as the soldiers were about to stack arms, a private of the
Kentucky company (Davis Guards) playfully leveled his musket at one of his
comrades, who remonstrated against such carelessness, and put up his hand to
push the gun away, when at that instant it was discharged, mangling his hand terribly,
and lodging its charge of ball and buckshot in the back of the next man in
front, private James H. Redford, of Louisville, Ky., and also a member of the
Davis Guards. The unfortunate young man
fell forward upon his face, and when picked up could barely speak sufficiently
to ask who had shot him. He died half
hour afterwards. –Norfolk
Herald, 11th.—
[Transcribed by Sharon Strout]
