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"What artillerists? Pendleton, Long, Pegram, etc.
"What men of the sea ? Semimes, Wood, Maury, etc.
"But who can count the stars? Men judge Napoleon by his marshals. Summon them to the field of Mars, and in such a galaxy as this, they would be proud of peerage. Troop behind them those armies of 'tattered uniforms and bright muskets'; but no, it is beyond the reach of either brush or chisel to redeem to the imagination such men, such scenes, as shine in their six hundred battles. Not until some new-born Homer shall touch the harp, can mankind be penetrated by a sense of their heroic deeds, and then alone in the grand majestic minstrelsy of epic song.
."And now that war is flagrant, far and wide in the land, and sea, and river, over the mountain and the plain rolls the red battle tide, and rises the lofty shout. The son falls, the old father steps in his place. The father falls, the stripling of the play ground rushes to the front; the boy becomes a man. Lead fails; old battle-fields are raked over; children gather up bullets as they would pluck berries; household ornaments and utensils are broken, and all are moulded into missiles of war. Cannon fail; the very church bells, whose mellow chimes have summoned to the altar, are melted and now resound with the grim detona- tions of artillery. Clothes fail; old garments are turned over, rags and exercise are raiment. The battle-horse is killed, the ship goes down; the unhorsed trooper and the unshipped tar trudge along with the infantry. The border States are swept away from the Confederacy, the remaining ones gird their loins the tighter.
"Virginia is divided, New Orleans is gone, Vicksburg fails, Gettysburg is lost, armies wither; exiles make their homes in battle; slender battalions do the duty of divisions; generals die in the thick fight; captains become generals; a private is a com- pany; luxuries disappear; necessities become luxuries; fields are wasted, crops and barns are burned; flocks and herds are con- sumed, and naught is left but 'man and steel, the soldier and his sword.'
"The desolate winter lays white an1 bleak upon the land; its chill winds are resisted by warm and true affections.
"Atlanta, Mobile, Charleston, Savannah fall-the Confederacy is cut to pieces.
"Ports are sealed-the world and the South are parted. All the dearer seems the scant sky that hangs over her bleeding children.
"On and on come the thickening masses of the North-brave men, and ably commanded; and as those of the South grow thin- her, theirs grow stronger. Hope sinks, despair stiffens courage.
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"Everything fails but manhood and womanhood. The woman cooks and weaves and works, nurses the stricken, baries her dead, and cheers her living. The man stands behind his gen, behind Johnston, behind Lee. Petersburg and Richmond starve and bleed, and yet stand dauntless. Here stood Jefferson Davis unshaken, untrembling, toiling to give bread to his armies and their kindred, toiling to hold up the falling arms of his veterans, and unbelieving that heaven could decree the fall of such a people.
"At last the very fountains of nature fail. The exhausted South falls prone upon its shield. It is gone-all gone-forever gone. The Confederacy and its sons in gray have vanished: and now, at last, hoary with years, its chieftain rests, his body min- gling with the ashes of the brave which once quickened with a country's holy passion.
"In the eyes of Him to whom a thousand years are as a watch in the night, the war and the century in which it came, are but as a tick of the second-hand of time: and when the myriads of this great land shall look back through unclouded skies to the old heroic days. the smoke and stain of the battle will bave van- ished from the hero's name. The tall chieftain of the men who wore the gray will stand before them with a countenance like the lightning, and in raiment white as .now.'"
At the unveiling of the statue of General R. E. Lee at Rich- mond, Va., Way 20tb, 1895, the orator of the occasion, Colonel Archer Anderson, closed his address in this language:
"The failure of the righteous cause for which General Lee fought, denied him that eminence of civil station in which bis great qualities, in their happy mixture. might well have afford- ed a parallel to the strength and the moderation of Washington. But what failure could obscure that moral perfection which places him as easily by the side of the best men that have ever lived, as his heroic actions make him the peer of the greatest?
"There are men whose influence on mankini neither worldly success nor worldly failure can affect.
"This moral perfection, breathing the very spirit of bis Chris- tian faith, is no illusive legend of a succeeding generation exay- gerating the worth of the past. Our belief in it rests in the unanimous testimony of the men who lived and acted with him. among whom nothing is more common than the declarati o that Lee was the purest and best man of action whose cares: bistory has recorded. In his whole life, laid bare to the gaze of the world, the least friendly criticism has never discovered one single . deviation from the narrow path of rectitude and honor. No man can consider his life without a feeling of renewed hope and
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trust in mankind. There is about his exhibitions of moral ex- cellence, the same quality of power in reserve that marks Fir as a soldier. He never failed to come up to the inll requirements of any situation, and his conduct communicated the impression that nothing could arise to which he would be found unesaal. His every action went straight to the mark without affectation or display. It cost him no visible effort to be good or great. He was not conscious that he was exceptional in either way, and he died in the belief that, as he had been sometimes unjustly blamed, so he had as often been too highly praised.
' Such is the holy simplicity of the noblest minds. Such was the pure and lofty man in whom we see the perfect union of Christian virtue and old Roman manhood. His goodness makes us love his greatness, and the fascination which this matchless combination exerts is itself a symptom and a source to as of moral health. As long as our people truly love and venerate him, there will remain in them a principle of good, for all the stupendous wealth and power which in the last thirty years have lifted these States to the foremost rank among all nations of the earth, are less a subject for pride than this one heroic man, this human product of our country and its institutions.
"Let this monument, then, teach to generations yet unborn these lessons of his life. Let it stand, not as a record of civil Strite, but as a perpetual protest against whatever is low and sordid in our public and private objects.
"Let it stand as a memorial of personal honor that never brooked a stain, of knightly valor without thought of self, of far-reaching military genins unsoiled by ambition, of heroic con- stancy, from which no cloud of misfortune could ever hide the path of duty. Let it stand for reproof and censure if our people shall ever sink below the standard of their fathers. Let it stand for patriotic hope and cheer, if a day of national gloom and dis- aster shall ever dawn upon our country. Let it stand as the em- bodiment of a brave and virtuous people's ideal leader. Let it stand as a public act of thanksgiving and praise for that it pleased Almighty God to bestow upon these Southern States a man so formed to reflect His attributes of power, majesty and goodness."
The Confederate Capital and Hood's Texas Brigade is finished, -the record made of valor and sacrifice.
Only at times, now, do we dare approach the beautiful Con- federate temple, in ruins; only at times do we pass with reveren- tial tread over the crumbling door-step, matted with weeds and covered with moss, and stand within the edifice, overgrown with
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honeysuckle and ivy. The mosaic pavement, wrought by the hands of sister States, is stained with the blood of heroes and damp with the tears of widow hood and orphanage.
We are privileged to brush the cobwebs and dust from the beautiful images of our great men, who have left their impress upon the century, and are forever set up in the sculptured niches there, for the admiration of coming years.
Only at times do we wreathe their brows with the green cedar of undying remembrance, and upon the graves of our dead martyrs, who there too repose, scatter fragrant flowers above their precious dust.
At such times, then, it becomes our right to recall again the past, amid the busy turmoil of the world, with its rushing bus- iness, its many cares; to contemplate the exalted deeds destined to live forever upon the pages of history as long as American archives shall be preserved, and its record read by those who will come after us in the cycling ages of the future. No more the Confederate temple re-echoes with the shout of jubilant thou- sands. Our voices beneath its dome sound awful and sepulchral, and closing the door, with bowed heads, we steal away in the gathering shadows.
"And all is well, though faith and form Be sundered in the night of fear; Well roars the storm, to those who hear A deeper voice across the storm."
APPENDIX.
PAROLES OF ARMY OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA SUR- RENDERED AT APPOMATTOX. .
HOOD'S TESAS BRIGADE.
R. M. Powell, Col. Comdg. Texas Brigade. Jno. W. Kerr. Capt. and A. A. G. J. H. Littlefield, Maj. and Q. M.
Robert Burns, Maj. and C. S.
Jas. A. Rust. Capt. and A. Q. M.
W. T. Hill, Capt. Comdg. 5th Texas. W. P. McGowen, Adjt. 5th Texas. J. J. Roberts, Surg. 5th Texas.
W. D. Williams, Capt. Co. F, 5th Texas. J. E. Anderson, Capt. Co. C, 5th Texas.
R. J. Franklin, Capt. Co. I. 5th Texas. E. Williams, Ist Lieut. Co. G, 5th Texas. Ben Baker, Ist Lieut. Co. B, 3th Texas. D. R. Ponce, Ist Lieut. Co. I, 5th Texas. J. M. Alexander, 2d Lieut. Co. K, 5th Texas.
B. Eldridge, 2d Lieut. Co. E, 5th Texas. D. W. McDowell, ed Lieut. Co. H, 5th Texas. W. H. Clark, Ist Ensign.
C. M. Winkler, Lieut .- Col. 4th Texas. W. H. Martin, Maj. 4th Texas.
L. C. Jones, Surg. 4th Texas. J. T. MeLaurin, Capt. Co. B. 4th Texas.
Haywood Brahan, Ist Lieut. Co. F, 4th Texas.
N. J. Mills, Ist Lieut. Co. I, 4th Texas. J. B. Boyd, Ist Lieut. Co. C, 4th Texas. R. H. Frank, Capt. Co. D. 4th Texas. J. T. Hunter, Capt. Co. H, ath Texas. J. S. Spivey, Ist Lieut. Co. Hf. 4th Texas. J. J. Atkinson, Ist Lient. Co. G, 4th Texas. Wm. F. Ford, zd Lieut. Co. B, 4th Texas.
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G. E. Lynch, Ist Lieut. Co. A, 4th Texas. J. W. Duran, ad Lieut. Co. I. 4th Texas. E. T. Kendred, Capt. Co. F, 4th Texas.
F. S. Bass, Col. Ist Texas.
Jno. H. Leete, Adjt. ist Texas. G. A. Merrett, Asst. Surg. Ist Texas. D. K. Rice, Capt. Co. C, Ist Texas. Win. A. Bedell, Capt. Co. L, Ist Texas. Jno. N. Wilson, Capt. Co. K., Ist Texas.
J. J. Quarles, Capt. Co. G, Ist Texas. A. W. Buckner, Ist Lieut. Co. C, Ist Texas. A. A. Aldrich, ist Lieut. Co. I, Ist Texas. H. H. Robinson, Ist Lieut. Co. A, Ist Texas. T. A. Ardrey, Ist Lieut. Co. K, ist Texas. D. M. Mollynatt, Ist Lieut. Co. G, Ist Texas. A. C. Oliver, ist Lieut. Co. D, Ist Texas. M. C. Noble, 2d Lieut. Co. F, Ist Texas. Wm. M. Berryman, 2d Lieut. Co. I, Ist Texas. Sam P. Torbett, 2d Lieut Co. H, Ist Texas.
Robert S. Taylor, Lieut .- Col. 3d Arkansas. J. R. Brown, Surg. 3d Arkansas. H. A. Kleinschmidt, Asst. Surg. 3d Arkansas.
G. E. Butler, Chaplain 3d Arkansas. Josh Hightower, Capt. Co. C, 3d Arkansas. A. C. Jones, Capt. Co. G, 3d Arkansas. Frank Thach, Capt. Co. H, 3d Arkansas. J. W. Norris, Capt. Co. K, 3d Arkansas. Wm. H. Harrison, Capt. Co. E, 3d Arkansas. T. A. Anderson, Capt. Co. F, 3d Arkansas. J. D. Pickens, Ist Lieut. Co. E, 3d Arkansas. R. M. Stribling, ist Lient Co. F, 3d Arkansas. J. I. Miles, ed Lieut. Co. H, and Asst. Adjt. 3d Arkansas. Thos. P. Brewen, 2d Lieut. Co. K, 3d Arkansas. J. L. Meel, 2d Lieut. Co. G, 3d Arkansas. [64]
THIRD ARKANSAS REGIMENT.
COMPANY A.
2d Sergeant-H. A. Ralph.
J. C. Bull, J. D. Geddie, W. C. Hannah,
Privates. Jas. Day, W. E. Gregory, H. N. Morris,
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I. A. Moore,
J. S. Banks, S. S. Johnson,
J. A. Kelley .:
G. W. Smith,
Wash Parks, C. A. Harrold, J. D. Kelley, G. Y. Mock, S. F. Stevens, G. I. Wright.
COMPANY B.
Ist Sergeant-R. E. McMurrey. 5th Sergeant-H. B. Lindsey.
Privates.
J. P. Hughes,
Jas. Reid,
N. J. Fuller,
J. F. Ketchins, S. D. Cobb, Dan'l Senn.
COMPANY C.
Ist Sergeant -- W. F. Conly. Ist Corporal-Chas. W. Jeter.
Privates.
Jas. T. Barden, Jas. B. Robertson,
Robert S. Rust, Jno. A. Furguson, B. F. Glossup, W. L. Law, S. P. Otts, W. T. Tuggle, T. J. Wilson.
COMPANY D.
Ist Sergeant-J. A. Harrell.
Privates.
W. T. Anderson, T. T. Crow,
J. H. Tyner, J. H. White,
J. S. Bush. COMPANY E.
Ist Sergeant-J. S. Grooms. 3d Sergeant-Jesse W. Hill. 4th Sergeant-J. V. King.
5th Sergeant-W. H. Dumas.
4th Corporal-L. C. Duke.
Privates.
J. W. Hill,
W .. V. Jester,
H. F. King,
Jno. M. McIlvine, Juo. D. Staples,
O. W. Jester, J. R. Jester, Jones Amason, P. H. Reynolds, B. F. Stevens,
K. Smitb.
APPENDIX.
COMPANY F. Ist Sergeant-W. S. Adair. 2d Sergeant --- Austin Phelps. Privates.
C. R. Buster, T. J. White,
S. H. Emerson, A. J. Grigsby, Wm. Stanley.
COMPANY G.
4th Sergeant-L. C. Warwick. 5th Sergeant -- H. A. Massey. Corporal-J. B. Wilson, ist Arkansas. Privates.
W. J. Alderson, P. A. Beeman, Frank Courtney,
J. F. Brooks,
M. L. Crumpler, A. P. Cummings,
H. J. P. Ferguson,
G. W. Fuller,
Hill Jones,
W. J. Keeling,
J. F. Lauderdale,
D. H. Lewis,
J. A. Moore, R. M. McDowell, E. M. Mitchell, V. Q. Warwick.
COMPANY H. 4th Sergeant-T. W. Hagood. Privates.
Joe May, J. W. Cook,
G. B. McDonald, Jeff Thorusbury.
COMPANY I.
Ist Sergeant-J. S. Willians. 3d Sergeant --- W. G. Lockhart. 3d Corporal-B. B. Newbern.
Privates.
W. H. G. Morgan, E. D. Goza, Robert Ratteree,
Moses Garner, John C. Jones, J. W. Rhodes, J. M. Robertson, J. S. Shirley,
W. T. Brewer.
COMPANY K. Ist Sergeant-H. C. Denson. : 2d Sergeant-J. L. F. Hill. 3d Sergeant-M. L. MeCurdie.
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Privates.
A. P. Bennett. W. D. Everett,
Thomas Morris,
D. T. White,
J. C. Gilliam, J. H. I. Fountain, J. C. Phillips,
J. H. Campiel, J. H. Goldsby, R. P. Noble.
J. H. Albrecht,
A. W. Holectab,
Geo. Jackson, R. M. Roberts. Musicians.
E. L. Bigham,
R. J. Bailey,
R. J. Lowry,
J. D. Randle,
G. A. Bailey, J. B. Jackson, G. F. Melton, F. M. Ward, B. F. Ward.
Hospital Steward-H. C. White. A. C. Jones, Captain, commanding regiment. Jo. Miles, Lieutenant and Acting Adjutant. [130]
FIFTH TEXAS REGIMENT.
Sergeant.Major-J. M. Smither.
Orderly Sergeant --- J. T. Cross.
Hospital Steward-W. H. H. Chadwick.
COMPANY A.
2d Sergeant-Chas. F. Settle. 3d Sergeant-Joseph H. Shepherd.
Privates.
Lewis Coleman, James Downey,
John T. Hurt,
Geo. W. Douglas, I'm. A. George, James E. Landes, James Stanger. COMPANY B. Musician -Albert H. Carter. Privates.
Emil Besch, David M. Curry.
W. H. Carlton. Wesley Cherzy,
Thos. T. DeGraffenriedt, John W. Jchason,
Joseph C. Kindred, J. S. Obenshala.
COMPANY C. 2d Sergeant -- John A. Green.
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Privates.
John T. Allison, T. R. Pistate, P. H. West, E. W. James,
J. P. Copeland. J. E. Swindles. Henry T. Driscoll. H. P. Traweek.
COMPANY D.
Ist Sergeant-John C. Hill. 2d Corporal -- Richard Hardy. Privates.
Thos. J. Birdwell,
Bernard Carrington,
J. W. Ewing,
Martin L. Gilbert,
Anthony F. Golding,
Abner M. Hinson,
Thos. J. Lewis,
Win. Powell,
Wul. A. Taylor,
Robert Stanton. Alfred Underwood. Win. P. Wilson.
COMPANY E.
3d Sergeant -- Wm. C. LeGrand. 4th Sergeant-Sidney \. Patrick. 5th Sergeant -- Geo. B. Williams.
Musicians. John Fields.
Jas. Hardeman,
Privates.
M. A. J. Evans, W. H. H. Gray,
W. R. Lott, David O. Patrick,
Frank M. Smith,
Rufus Felder, W. H. Innes.
W. H. McCalister.
Simon B. Smith,
Joseph W. Wallace.
COMPANY F. Ist Sergeant-Henry V. Angell. 2d Sergeant -- Cadmus Wilborn.
Privates.
Basil C. Brashear, Julius Beckman. Joseph C. Ross, Henry C. Shea. Thomas W. Taylor,
Samuel E. Perley, John V. Sloan, Ranson Sweney,
Frank Whittington.
COMPANY G.
Ist Sergeant Lucilius Caldwell. 3d Sergeant-Wm. W. Smith. 4th Sergeant-James Pool. 3d Corporal-James P. Smith.
M. A. Lampkin,
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Privates.
Elias B. McAmrich,
Daniel McDonald,
David H. Mayes,
Geo. A. Bernard,
Wm. T. Dyer,
Hugh C. Jackson,
Constantine Nance,
John B. Small, Andrew J. Tomlinson.
COMPANY H.
Ist Sergeant-Jacob Hemphill.
2d Sergeant-G. M. Sims. 3d Sergeant-Wm. Grayless. 4th Sergeant-S. W. Small.
Musician-Wm. Cooper. Privates.
A. D. Brinkley,
A. H. Butler, J. A. Chesser,
James Curry,
Milton P. Foster,
P. K. Goree,
Thos. S. Hay,
George Johnson,
Thompson Kelly,
John Reader,
J. A. Shaw,
James M. Small,
S. E. Walters,
Robert T. Wilson,
Win. Woods.
COMPANY I.
Ist Sergeant-Geo. W. Clampitt.
2d Sergeant- W'm. O. Morgan.
3d Sergeant-Sam. D. Williams. 4th Sergeant-John S. Hafner.
Privates.
Ben. J. Baldwin,
Fritz Bettis,
Willis G. Blue,
Jas. R. Cliett,
Dan H. Carter,
J. W. Deane,
Tas. A. Fatman,
B. S. Fitzgerald,
Robert Flemming.
Robert E. Fitzgerald,
Curran Holmes,
A. W. Holt, Jonathan A, Love,
John D. Howle.
Win. R. McRee.
COMPANY K. Ist Sergeant-T. F. Meece. 4th Sergeant-A. B. Green. 4th Corporal-J. F. Ford.
Wm. A. Nabours.
John T. Austin,
Willis B. Darby,
Harvey Rose,
Isaiah Shields,
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J. W. Smith,
Musicians. WV. Sandall.
Privates.
W. G. D. Hendley,
Henry C. Himans,
Mark A. Hubert,
R. Kirkland,
R. A. Ashley,
B. F. Meekins,
J. M. Bowen,
D. A. Rowe,
J. D. Calvert, U. P. Stephenson,
A. W. Dunn, S: D. Waldrop, W. D. Young.
A. J. Fairchilds,
Wm. McDowell. [149]
W. T. Hill, Captain, commanding regiment.
FOURTH TEXAS REGIMENT.
FIELD STAFF AND BAND. Hospital Steward- Robert H. Lennard. Musicians.
J. R. P. Jett, D. J. Goode, Chas. Warner,
T. D. Herst,
P. R. Stamps,
J. H. Collins, D. H. Foster, Frank Deal.
COMPANY A.
2nd Sergeant-P. H. Walker. 3rd Sergeant-W. D. Mooney. 4th Sergeant-P. J. Deel. Privates.
T. W. Fletcher,
J. H. Gunn,
J. S. Jones, W. H. Pitman,
T. S. Simmons, W. B. Walker.
COMPANY B.
5th Sergeant-W. J. Flanikin. Ist Corporal-J. E. Jones. 2nd Corporal-W. J. Tannehill. 4th Corporal-A. R. Masterson. Privates. J. K. P. Dunson, J. B. Henderson, A. T. Luckett, S. P. Teague, D. A. Todd.
L. B. Cox, A. A. Durfee, N. W. Mayfield, A. R. Rice,
J. M. Fields, WV. A. Hall, A. J. Martin,
P. Thompson,
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COMPANY C. and Sergeant --- J. M. Adams. Privates. W. Gearey, B. F. Merriman, S. W. Montgomery. WV. Hearn, Courier, General Field.
COMPANY D.
Ist Sergeant -- Jas. Patterson.
2nd Sergeant -- A. E. Wilson.
3rd Sergeant -- R. A. Burgess.
4th Sergeant-S. A. Jones.
5th Sergeant --- Z. J. Harmon.
Ist Corporal-J. M. White.
Privates.
W. H. Burgess,
A. A. Dimmitt,
J. B. Gregory,
J. F. Holmes,
G. W. Little,
John Rodgers,
F. C. White.
B. Schmidtz,
G. A. Hodges.
COMPANY E.
Ist Sergeant -- P. M. Ripley. 2nd Sergeant-W. W. Dunklin.
Ist Corporal -- E. C. Sharp.
Privates.
S. J. Billingsley,
G. N. Chenault, Samuel Fossett,
W. E. Duncan,
W. M. King,
W. H. Berton,
F. C. Mullens,
W. A. Pamplin,
Jas. Robertson.
N. N. Ripley,
H. B. Rogers, G. M. Taylor,
R. W. Umberson,
P. D. Williams.
COMPANY F. Ist Sergeant -J. D. Murrey.
Privates.
Chas. McAllister, Courier, General Field. H. G. Abbott, Jas. Alford, S. H. Ardour, W. H. Dunn, L. T. Pogue.
J. S. Danmill, W. Dunn,
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COMPANY G.
Ist Sergeant -- L. H. Barry.
2nd Sergeant -- W. M. Baines.
3rd Sergeant -- W. A. Stacey.
5th Sergeant -- W. J. Grissett.
2nd Corporal-J. F. Martin.
4th Corporal-B. F. Kelley.
Privates.
Jas. Aiken, J. J. Blackshear, D. R. Blackshear, J. J. Cooke,
E. C. Davis,
G. W. Jones,
C. G. Mooring,
W. A. Martin,
S. A. Medziff,
J. T. Muse,
H. F. Plaster,
J. M. Pinckney,
G. S. Qualis,
A. J. Stewart, .
H. E. Shafer,
T. G. Wallingford,
H. F. Williams.
COMPANY H.
4th Sergeant -- W. T. C. May.
Ist Corporal -- R. H. Stewart. 4th Corporal --- J. II. Hall.
Privates.
T. C. Dillard,
R. M. May,
Thos. A. Wynne,
H. Keiser, A. J. McCowan, W. A. Watson.
COMPANY I. 4th Sergeant-R. G. Holloway.
Privates.
W. B. Allen,
M. Barry, A. M. Crossland,
J. W. Crabtree,
J. J. Harrison,
H. L. Harrison,
J. H. Orendoff.
L. W. Rice,
J. R. Shaw, J. H. Tredwell,
W. W. Templeton,
J. C. Welch.
COMPANY K. Ist Sergeant-J. H. Kimbrough. 3rd Sergeant - M. H. Hodge. 5th Sergeant -- T. C. Banks.
J. S. Reynolds,
J. W. Holdeman,
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Privates.
Jos. Baker, A. Boles, J. M. Campbell, L. D. Champion. W. T. Brown
M. Chapman,
1. F. Ellege. J. F. GibboLs.
L. J. Guthrie, H. A. Larroo,
J. J. Pickering, J. Rice. [:45]
Lieut .- Col. C. M. Winkler, commanding regiment.
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FIRST TEXAS REGIMENT.
Hospital Steward -- W. A. Forte.
COMPANY A.
and Sergeant -- A. Alford. Private -- G. Mathews.
COMPANY C. 4th Sergeant-J. N. Freeman. Privates.
O. G. Armstrong. J. W Armstrong, H. F. M. Freeman, J. P. Neil.
COMPANY D.
2d Sergeant -- D. F. Storey.
3d Sergeant -- E. C. Powell. Ist Corporal-J. T. Dixon. Privates.
A. J. Adams, W. L. Durham,
G. F. Moss, S. W. Oliver, J. W. Smith,
S. L. Davenpo :: , P. H. Glaze,
I. O. Moore. F. T. Oliver, Corporal J. L. Allen.
COMPANY E.
4th Sergeant-W. H. Coleman.
Privates.
J. A. Clarke, F. M. Mays. S. F. Perry, G. F. Heard, R. G. Sands, T. H. Langley. J. T. Longino.
J. W. Trowbridge, Courier at Brigade Headquarters. S. T. Watson, Courier at Brigade Headquarters.
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COMPANY F.
J. M. Snowden,
Privates. A. S. Crarey. COMPANY G.
Ist Sergeant -- G. W. Chambers. 2d Sergeant -- W. P. Bowen. 4th Sergeant -J. Parker. Ist Corporal-J. R. Keeling.
Privates.
L. A. Adams,
D. B. Chambers,
J. W. Davis,
H. Darnell,
F. M. Hopkins,
G. W. Kennedy,
T. F. Muin,
J. W. Mathews,
F. M. Mathews,
B. V. Milan,
J. Lewellen,
J. N. Petty,
T. G. Seay,
W. J. Watts,
W. B. Henry,
J. A. Knox,
Jas. Ward,
R. F. Wren,
S. F. Black,
A. P. Cooke.
COMPANY H.
Ist Sergeant-H. G. Hickman.
4th Sergeant-Geo. Hollinsworth.
5th Sergeant-C. C. Baker.
Ist Corporal-J. E. Evans.
2d Corporal-W. H. Moore.
Privates.
P. A. Blanton,
Jas. Bolton. A. J. Fry,
T. R. Edwards.
N. Hollinsworth, J. Henegsburger,
J. A. Knight,
Joe A. Knight,
J. M. Herrington,
T. B. Davidson.
J. Lafin, L. G. McKinsie.
J. P. Surratt,
A. N. Fenne ::.
COMPANY I.
ad Sergeant -- R. F. Emmons. 5th Sergeant-D. B. Bush. Commissary Sergeant-A. Aldrich.
Ist Corporal-J. M. Drawhorn.
J. Harris, F. M. Morris,
Privates. T. W. H. McCall. D. M. McLean, Chas. Scully.
W. B. Kimbrough,
M. A. Knox.
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COMPANY K.
2d Sergeant --- O. T. Hanks. 3d Sergeant -- H. S. Bennett. 3d Corporal-J. Branden. 4th Corporal -- W. F. Brooks.
O. T. Hai!,
Privates. W. H. Watson,
A. J. Presselle,
Joe O. Brown,
H. C. Powell,
S. N. Peterson,
A. J. Wilson,
B. D, Dunham,
J. O. Noble, Geo. IV. Menefee.
COMPANY L.
3d Sergeant-J. C. Pratt. 4th Sergeant-W. A. Shelton.
Privates.
Samuel Clarke, R. A. Curtis,
J. Dillon,
L. F. Delardenier,
M. Garrity,
T. L. McCarty,
John McCarty,
G. A. Merke,
B. R. Stoddard,
H. Schultz,
W. B. Von Hutton,
A. W. Wood, Wm. Hoskins,
Jas. Welch.
COMPANY M.
Ist Sergeant-T. W. Peary.
2d Sergeant-W. A. Roach.
3d Sergeant-F. M. Slater.
4th Sergeant-G. B. Lundy.
5th Sergeant-D. H. Hamilton.
Drummer-S. S. Watson.
Privates.
B. J. Caps,
S. Demirry, T. E. Hathorn,
W. F. Enfinger,
S. Stubblefield, W. Tullous.
W. T. White, J. A. White, Jo Wilson. [:33]
F. S. Bass, Colonel, commanding regiment. Jno. H. Leete, Ist Lieut. and Adjutant.
M. L. Wagner,
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GENERAL J. B. HOOD.
General John Bell Hood was born in Owensville, Bath county, Kentucky, June 29, 1831, and was brought up at Mount Sterling, Montgomery county, Kentucky. Of his childhood and youth we know nothing. except that his father was a physician who occupied a high position in the medical world, and was desirous that his son should adopt the same profession, offering the in- Cucement of completing his studies in Europe. The young mas, however, had his dreams of future glory and his heart set upon a military life, as his ardor had been excited by deeds of daring of both his grandfathers, who were soldiers under Washington. They were of English origin, had settled in Virginia, but emmi- grated to Kentucky, "the dark and bloody ground," where they lived in constant warfare with the Indians, and one had married at Fort Boonesboro, the first fortification constructed in the State.
His anxiety upon the subject of a military education induced his maternal uncie, Judge French, then a member of Congress, to obtain for him an appointment to West Point. He entered that military academy in 1849. at the age of seventeen, and gradu- ated, in 1853, in the class with Sheridan, McPherson and Scho- field. He was appointed brevet second lieutenant of the sta in- fantry, then serving in California. Sailing from New Vors, via Panama, he reached San Francisco and was stationed a short time at Benecia Barracks, when he was directed to report for duty at Fort Jones, Scott's Valley, in the northern part of California. where he found Colonel Buchanan in command of a regiment, with Captain U. S. Grant as quartermaster. While here came was plentiful and Lieutenant Hool and another member of his mess sent their surplus game to market, cultivated a feld and sowed wheat. Before this financial scheme came to perfection and the wheat harvested, he was ordered, in command of a de- tachment of dragoons. to serve as escort to Lieutenant Williams, of the topographical engineers, upon a surveying expedition in the direction of Salt Lake.
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