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The Daily Dispatch: March 6, 1862., [Electronic resource], From Tennessee. (search)
form definitely as to the number. All of our field officers were absent sick, and the senior Captain present commanded the regiment. It would be impossible to single out any instances of particular distinction, when all officers and men conducted themselves with such determined coolness and unflinching bravery. General Floyd, after the battle, highly complimented the Fifty-sixth Virginia. Prior to being sent to Donelson, we were stationed under the command of General Floyd at Bowling Green and Russellville, Kentucky. Our loss in killed and wounded was small compared to the enemy's — theirs, no doubt, four times as great as ours. Floyd's brigade is now ordered to this place, and will be here in a day or two. Our sick are sent to Atlanta and Rome, Ga. The principal fighting at Donelson was done by Virginians, Mississippians, Texans, and Kentuckians. The troops from each State won unfading laurels in that contest. The men from all the South place implicit confid