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BiaiiU U1U UOliOl Ctx IT HUU LU^*VM*General Hardee said that night tftifc :the charge made that day by the so-called horee cavalry saved the army- General Hardee was a man of Tew words, and only thanktd Captain Mathews for mating the charge. General Hardee knew the men and he kntw that they 6elected their own officers: [hot no influence guided them In fckeJr 'selection hut -merii. He therefore never questioned the appearance of an officer of that regiment.Mathews has gone to Join Che 1700 rangers who were onfc with him and who have preceded him to that beautiful shore* Hie memory Is green with those of us left yet alive, but now unappreciated in this grand south land—called the new south by those who are hunting' fame in other ways than by srms/ Matthews nor those with him lay claim to merit for doing what they loved to do. FJghtipg wan their basineee, and they tried to excel In this as do men who are 1 now daily maligning the old south, and tiyirg to make her stoop to fawning. Bending tlio pregnant bingee of the knee of an old confederate ia not in his line. The land and the cause fought for must ever he tha 1 same to the true southern gentleman, and from none of them do I desire to take a single laurel, nor will X permit it to he done to the dead or Jlring Ranger so long as I live.Joh^ DT. C-LAIBtmXK,lAte Adjutant Terry's Rangers, C. S. A*
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Galveston Daily News
Galveston, Texas, US
Sun, Dec 11, 1887
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