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f JUU UiJL X • XIV*♦order*d to Initiate the attack. Charging promptly,at ad«ubi**qulek—lor Ujwatno Mine to suud and te lo pWo**« by showefa of builet*—these two gal* laui regiments broke thtlr front Hue ant took position behind the blurt of *acr?ek, tlthln fifty yards of the Federal reserves. The pattm of the around waa such that the latter hadlto ahow thrmielves at (hat distance In ordrr to !get‘at us. it waa rx\ ectfd at this time ttiHt the lOili. 30th a:id 50th Tennessee would attack thri *n*my on their (gut fianit. but the Fe.deiaW h«d d'ployed nueh manes of troops on thdr fUnkt, that odr who’e command waa compelled to uyilaUin a purriy defensive attitude, which left the two regiments ici the front unsupported. The 3(1 Tennessee betng ovitfUoked. fell back; hut the 7th Texas for thirty minutes longer, s'iil boldly maintained their ground. held the aneoty in check, and then^wtth a discipline unsurpassed try any body of men during the war, fell hack to tire main b dy. At this time not a round of catridge remained in the whole r girneul. and the Jfe^erals were two hundrrd yards in our tear The loss In the 3d Tennessee in this engagement was 197 men out o .533; that of the 7thIVxaa 153 men ou* ot ;30d. The lueses iu the other rt gtoo^nrs were comparatively slightThe brignoe then, fe|l hack to Jackson, and tookpart in the ekirmish preceding the evacuat on of that place, on the 14th of May, Gen. Gregg neing commander of the field* (Jen Johuaoo arrived the night before. We evacuated Jacks n with s x thousand men. During the second investment of the city-occupying about elt;gl t days—the brigade lost eighty men iu killed and wounded. Arnot g the s-verely wounded was Lieut. Qoi Moodv, of the 7to Texas— a Virginian, and one of the best othce a ot his grade in the service.About the7th of September, the bri,a e left Enterprise, Miss , for. the scene of operation a oa the Ohickamauga; commenced skirmishing on Friday, the IHtta, three miles from Ringgold, and moved.for* f^yrd in line of battle; ten tnilei, driving the enemy’s mounted intantry ; At last they made a stand, when we oharged at a double qa|ck.«ram«*d them and slept on the fleiar Tour other brigad-s were engaged In this affair, comprising the division of Gen BushrodJohnson.
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Galveston Weekly News
Galveston, Texas, US
Wed, Nov 11, 1863
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