Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Gen. J. E. Johnston” in chapter 19, page 264 of Col. O. M. Roberts, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 11.1, Texas:
... May, 1863, Colonel Whitfield received the commission of brigadier-general, his command consisting of his own battalion and the Third, Sixth and Ninth Texas cavalry.
Operating in Mississippi, under Gen. J. E. Johnston , on July 4, 1863, the very day that Vicksburg surrendered, General Whitfield encountered a party of 500 Federals.
He attacked and defeated them at Messinger's ferry.
Through the whole of 1864 he ...
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