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»ia.it?. * .Gen. Robertson was a Texan doctor, who enjoyed the distinguished lioni»r 10 )v ‘ tlie commander of Hood’s brigade .a troop of heroes living in song and sior as the bravest that over fought face to face, hand to hand, bayonet to bayonet, where it was death or victory.lt;'hiekamnuga, nex( to lt;Joltysburg, w as the most noted battle ever fought on this continent. It was the most complete victory won by the lt;on fed*oraios. There were tlrne traps broken in the enemy*8 line on the day the battle was won. The triory of performing H hat extraordinary feat of gal* Ian try belongs to the three Texan brig* ados, oil in different portions of theensanguined field.Robertson*®, Kctor’s, Deshler’s were the brigade® that immortalized the name of Texas on. that famous andhistoric battlefield.The people of America, in admiration, have placed a stono showing where Hood’s brigade, near Snodgrass I Nil, made that gallant charge whichwreathe® in shining glory the nameof Texas with a chaplet of fame as enduring as te granite hills over whichthey fought . ^lt;4In that onslaught to death and glory,Robertson rode side by side with Hood, the superb, until he fell frombis horse, dangerously wounded. Intothe arms of his beloved Robertson.Ia the charge up the hill, through streams of blood, over 4Jie dead and dying, in the fiery tempest of shot andshell. Robertson still continued to leadthe Texans on, on, without stop or halt, to glorious deeds until all over •the steel clad hills of (TnVkanvauga, resounding from one end o ft he lineto the other, could be heard the reoicj-ing Texans shouting “victory, victo-w *»
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San Antonio Sunday Light
San Antonio, Texas, US
Sun, Apr 22, 1900
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