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ui x/j ** L-Lu-uuii, ^This charge of the . rangers ia no more worthy 01 -notice than are a number of ■ otht r®, some of which General Hardee or-: deiid and saw with bin own eyes* That1 which iDai.es it more notable is from the fact that if there had been any dleenarage-ment or elgn of weakness in these men they would have shown it, for defeat, and an ear?T end to the war was almost assured, and these men knew it, yet worndoivfi by defeat and undergoing to ofchere .aaper* Unman endurance, that they should coart the charge.Wow I desire to show that General Hampton sad *1bo Captain Friend maybe right, or rather neither wrong. When the rangers cam b back oat of the charge, Caearning brigade mtd a-battery of artillery were drawn Bp in line of battle near the bridge on Mill creek, and at or near the .place from which the rangers started in the-oharpc, but they did not fire a gnn, large or ; email, or cross the bridge, bat *a the regiment passed along the line oe cammings’ men on their return from the battle they weia eccosted like this: V8J*y, Texas, if r sot^ns hadn't a fit them Yanks away we-line was guine thro1 fem like a dose of .£alt”—going to show that they had been ordered xap by aome one. presumably the frrand old General Wade Hampton.
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Galveston Daily News
Galveston, Texas, US
Sun, Dec 11, 1887
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