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Col. O. M. Roberts, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 11.1, Texas (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 14: (search)
river with it. Again that brigade proceeded with Louisiana troops in a campaign down the bayous and captured the Federal post at Berwick bay. In the summer of 1863 Lieut.-Col. A. W. Spaight's battalion and Ed. Waller's battalion had gone from Texas to Louisiana, and a part of J. W. Spaight's brigade, Lieut.-Col. James E. Harrison in command, had come there from the Indian Territory. These, joined to Green's brigade and some Louisiana troops, were engaged in the battle of Fordoche, September 29, 1863, a hard fought and destructive engagement, in which the Confederates were successful. In the meantime Col. Tom Green had been promoted to brigadier-general, in command of a cavalry division, consisting of the old Sibley brigade under Col. A. P. Bagby, and another brigade under Colonel Major, composed of Lane's and Stone's regiments of partisan rangers, the latter under Lieut.-Col. Isham Chisum, and some other troops. To these brigades were attached Ed. Waller's battalion and two comp
Col. O. M. Roberts, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 11.1, Texas (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Biographical. (search)
were ready to risk everything for the cause of their country. Entering the service in the Fifteenth Texas infantry, he was made lieutenant-colonel of the regiment, which he frequently led into battle, the colonel, J. W. Spaight, being often in command of the brigade. A great deal of the service of these soldiers was taken up with watching the enemy, cutting off his foraging parties, skirmishing with detachments, and making things generally uncomfortable for the Federal soldiers. On September 29, 1863, Gen. Thomas Green, commanding a brigade in the army under Gen. Richard Taylor, in Louisiana, attacked a considerable force of the enemy at Fordoche bridge and gained a decisive victory, capturing nearly 500 prisoners, two 10-pounder Parrott guns, and many fine arms and accouterments, which enabled every man with an inferior weapon to secure a good one. General Green, in his report of this affair, said: To Lieut.-Col. J. E. Harrison, commanding Spaight's brigade, F. N. Clark and Maj. J