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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) 3 1 Browse Search
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4. 1 1 Browse Search
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Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4., The opposing forces at Nashville, Dec. 15-16, 1864. (search)
h, 33d, and 45th Ala., Lieut.-Col. R. H. Abercrombie; 5th Miss. and 3d Miss. Battalion, Capt. F. M. Woodward; 8th and 32d Miss., Maj. A. E. Moody. Govan's Brigade, Brig.-Gen. D. C. Govan, Col. Peter V. Green: 1st, 2d, 5th, 13th, 15th, and 24th Ark., Col. Peter V. Green; 6th and 7th Ark., Lieut.-Col. P. Snyder; 8th and 19th Ark., Maj. D. H. Hamiter. Granbury's Brigade, Capt. E. T. Broughton: 35th Tenn.,----; 6th and 15th Tex., Capt. B. R. Tyus; 7th Tex., Capt. O. P. Forrest; 10th Tex., Capt. R. D. Kennedy; 17th and 18th Tex. (dismounted cavalry), Capt. F. L. McKnight; 24th and 25th Texas (dismounted cavalry), Capt. J. F. Matthews; La. Cav. Co., Capt. L. M. Nutt. Artillery Battalion (Hotchkiss's): Ala. Battery (Goldthwaite's); Ark. Battery (Key's); Mo. Battery (Bledsoe's). Bate's division, Maj.-Gen. William B. Bate. Escort, Capt. J. H. Buck. Tyler's Brigade, Brig.-Gen. T. B. Smith: 37th Ga., Capt. J. A. Sanders; 4th Ga. Battalion Sharp-shooters, Maj. T. D. Caswell; 2d, 10th, 15th,
en. After having withdrawn a short distance Brigadier-General Slaughter, accompanied by Captain Carrington, commanding Cater's battalion, arrived and assumed command. It will not be inappropriate to state that the resumption of the pursuit by his orders proved the correctness of my course. The enemy had been reinforced and were followed within a mile of Brazos island. In this affair the enemy lost 25 or 30 killed and wounded and 113 prisoners. While the fight was going on, one of King & Kennedy's boats came steaming up the river. We could not satisfy ourselves as to the flag she bore. Two round balls were thrown at her from one of our cannons. Luckily she was missed. We had some volunteer French cannoneers in charge of the pieces in front. Colonel Ford galloped past them a short distance above Palmetto ranch, and gave them a command to hurry up. After having gone 200 or 300 yards, a ranger came up at full speed and informed him the Frenchmen had halted and unlimbered the p
General Cleburne, and its brigade commander, General Granbury. Lieut.-Col. R. B. Young, Tenth, was also killed, and Maj. W. A. Taylor, Twenty-fourth and Twenty-fifth, Capt. J. W. Brown, Seventh, and Capt. R. Fisher, Sixth and Fifteenth, commanding their respective regiments, were reported missing. On December 10th, Capt. E. T. Broughton was in command of the brigade; the Sixth and Fifteenth regiments were under Capt. B. R. Tyus; the Seventh under Capt. O. P. Forrest, the Tenth under Capt. R. D. Kennedy, Seventeenth and Eighteenth under Capt. F. L. McKnight, and the Twenty-fourth and Twenty-fifth under Capt. John F. Matthews. Gen. J. A. Smith, commanding the division at Nashville, reported that Granbury's brigade having constructed a. redoubt at an important point of the line, on the 15th the enemy made a formidable attempt on this position by a direct assault, and at the same time by a flank movement came in its rear. This attempt was a disastrous failure, he having to retire in c