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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 32. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.49 (search)
Featherstone-Posey-Harris Mississippi Brigade.
[from the New Orleans, la., Picayune, June 1, 1902.] By Captain E. Howard McCaleb, of New Orleans.
On the 16th day of April, 1861, the Claiborne Guards were organized and mustered into the service or Fair Oaks, we were brigaded with the 16th, 19th and 48th Mississippi Regiments and placed under command of Brigadier-General Featherstone.
Again the long roll sounded, and we were called upon to begin the seven days battles around Richmond.
On t the battle of Marye's Heights.
Here we went into winter quarters, about the 20th of January, 1863, at which time General Featherstone was relieved from the command of the brigade, and Colonel Carnot Posey, of the 16th Mississippi, promoted and assi g, lieutenant-colonel.
After the battle of Sharpsburg new flags were presented to the different regiments composing Featherstone's Brigade, which, by the fortunes of war, had lost their colors.
But the. Bloody Twelfth preferred to retain her old
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 32. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Index. (search)