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Col. John M. Harrell, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 10.2, Arkansas (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 11: (search)
greater part of the regiment remained in Mississippi, where they fought in several small engagements against the Federals. A squad of the Seventeenth, under Maj. B. B. Chisom, captured a Federal gunboat on the Yazoo river. They had a sanguinary encounter with Federal cavalry at Keller's lane, June 23, 1863, in which Lieutenant De sent a prisoner to Johnson's island. Colonel Cravens became circuit judge and representative in Congress; Colonel Pitman, circuit judge and State senator; Capt. B. B. Chisom, secretary of State; F. J. Spurlin, private, who lost a leg, was many years treasurer of Garland county; Col. O. P. Lyles became representative in Congress.d regiment. It endured the siege of Port Hudson, upon the fall of which, July 9, 1863, the men were paroled. The officers were sent to prison, among them Capt. B. B. Chisom, one of the youngest officers in the Confederacy. He commanded the company of Captain Arbuckle after the latter was captured at Port Hudson. From Johnson'