Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Colonel Rust” in chapter 3, page 70 of Joseph T. Derry , A. M. , Author of School History of the United States; Story of the Confederate War, etc., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 6, Georgia:
...o without much intermission for six weeks, causing great sickness and suffering among the troops.
The attack upon the Federal position at Cheat mountain was fixed for the morning of September 12th. Colonel Rust , with the Third Arkansas, from Jackson's command, was to lead his regiment to a point in the rear of the Federal position, and Gen. Samuel R. Anderson,
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