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kksburg. ..4 :*A little later in September, young |1Daffan, with his cousins, saw a part :of the Southern army passing, a few j miks from his uncle’s plantation: ho L recoguiz«*d Benning’s brigade of j -Georgia, Law's brigade of Alabama and Hood’s Texas brigade.Fpon learning that Hood's brigade had left Vir- j ginia for Georgia, he proceeded at ^Ionce to Richmond and reported ro ' the provost martial, who appreciated a the conditions and gave the young Confederate transportation and ra- J tions to a point in Georgia. Resaca. 1 ‘ He reached there Friday, September IS, 1S63, just in time to join his regiment Sunday in the battle of Chiokamauga. Saturday evening, September 19, 1SG3. a* the cabin in front of Longstreet’s corps, a ball struck his gun between the rammer and the barrel, shivering the stock and knocking him down: he received no other injury than this during htesorviee.Hood s brigadt made a gallan' charge at Chiekamauga and therewere two lines of battle of Foderals. The Texans received a terrible vol-i ley of musketry there, the most terrible during the war. Ten of his company were killed at Chiekamauga and thirty or forty wounded. Had the Federate shot low. *hcy all would I probably have been killed: from six I to thirty feet on the trees showed :hoterrible volley of musketry.The men who fell were shot, in the breast or head, which indicated excited and high shooting by the Federate, the Confederates took their position, but did not press them further that evening. Daffan was on j picket that night. Saturday, and the •lines were revised during the night, changing their front from the westto the north.
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Waxahachie Daily Light
Waxahachie, Texas, US
Sat, Feb 16, 1907
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