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Another fnct cot generally noticed is, that at no time during the little did we peimanently lose ho inch of ground. We were continually pressing on, and, if forced back lor the moinmt, generally resled in advance of the original position, and m»ved forward to fresh achievements from the last base.Our attack on Sunday, in front of ihe centre* was from a half to a mile in alvance of the position occupied by our line during the attack of Saturday.Much credit is due to Oapt. Bledsoe, of the battery attached to Gregg’s Brigade. When the War first hrlt; ke ou't fu the spring of 1861, he raised an anil lery comply in Mtsourl. Having no ordnance, or the means to obtain one, except an old Fourth ot July salutation piece, which wia annually used at his coutityjtown, he mounted this on an oxcar', and proceeding to a blacksmith’s shop, personalty super intended the manufacture of three others by hind from wrought iron. He also made his own projectiles, using hoise shoes cut up in o fragments and tin croa for canister and grape. Such was the rude equipment with which he fought the battles of Carthage and Oak Hill, where he not only male niur derous havoc in the ranks of the enemy, but obtained a Federal battery In line order, worthy of his energy and patriotism.The lots of the Texas regiment was very great. It went into the ftsht with 3lt;M men and came out with only 76 The 50th Tennessee went In with 180 men and came out with only 80. The other regiMWnnf nn« third n? the number ennirrd.
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Galveston Weekly News
Galveston, Texas, US
Wed, Nov 11, 1863
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