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brigade from Georgia, command eel by Colonel Henderaon, about 200 to 250 strong. tHe ordered this command and a battery toward the threatened point* and in a few minutes a portion of the Eighth Texas cavalry, sixty to eighty men, responded to hla call, made through a courier. ^'All of these troops were harried np to meet the enemy, who were then within a few hundred yards of the road, *nd just as X had put them in Eoeitiou General Harden arrived ua the £iourd. Explaining the position to him. and telling hiw. of the dispositions I had made, he At once ordered the charge, and our pin a* I force wag hurled agaio.se the enemy.JlThis statement does injustice to the Eighth Texan Cavalry regiment, of which I was then a lieutenant In company E, because it gives others credit to which that regiment was alone entitled. In truth, no other troops than the Eighth Texas made the charge. Cummings' brigade had nothing
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Galveston Daily News
Galveston, Texas, US
Sat, Dec 03, 1887
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