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The Daily Dispatch: September 7, 1861., [Electronic resource] 7 1 Browse Search
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
The Daily Dispatch: August 29, 1861., [Electronic resource] 2 2 Browse Search
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the action. Colonel Camp, commanding Fourteenth Texas, one of the best officers in the service, was seriously wounded; also Majors McReynolds, Ninth Texas, and Purdy, Fourteenth Texas. Of captains wounded were Wright, Lyles, Russell, Vannoy and Ridley, and Lieutenants Tunnell, Haynes, Gibbons, Agee, Morris, O'Brien, Irwin, Reeves and Robertson. . . . To Colonel Earp, on whom the command of the gallant Texans devolved, and to Colonel Andrews (Thirty-second Texas), who commanded on the south sight from 2 a. m. till daylight without intermission. . . . We mourn the fall of many of our bravest and best officers and men. Among the former are Major Shannon, Capt. D. H. Ragsdale, Lieuts. James A. Darby and James F. Cole, of the Fifth; Maj. Alonzo Ridley, of Phillips' regiment, and Lieut. N. D. Cartwright, of the Fourth. Colonel Major at the head of his column was wounded. The troops were withdrawn with a loss of 40 killed, 114 wounded, and 107 missing, out of about 800 engaged. After t
n taking possession of Arizona in the name of the Confederate States of America, and establishing temporarily and until the action of Congress a form of government. The Times adds: The following-named gentlemen, under command of Captain Alonzo Ridley, arrived in our city on the 31st ult. from Los Angeles, California: Resigned army officers. Gen. A. S. Johnston, a native of Kentucky, late in command of the Department of California, was commander of the Utah expedition, and whosof the 4th Infantry. Lt. Francia Mallory, late of the 4th Infantry. Lt. A. Sheaff, late of the 4th Infantry. Lt. N. Wickliffe, late of the 9th Infantry. Lt. R. H. Brower, late of the 1st Dragoons. Citizens of California. Captain Alonzo Ridley, William R. Bower, Thos. Stonehouse, Hugh May, James D. Darden, James L. Parker, William H. Ceapilde, Cyrus K. Coleman, Calvin Poor, William Campbell, Joseph S. Chandler, George W. Gill, David McKenzie, Colonel Wm. M. Skinner, John J. Dil
y constituting Gen. Johnston's escort was organized from among the mountaineers and frontiersmen of California, by Capt. Alonzo Ridley, to whose energy and boldness are we indebted for the presence and services of one of the ablest Generals of the age. The movements of both the General and Capt. Ridley were so narrowly watched by the Black Republican army officers stationed at Los Angeles, that it became necessary that the organization and meeting of the company should be as secret as possible. of treason. A United States grand jury was summoned from among the ranks of the Blacks, and every effort made to indict Ridley for treason; four companies of United States troops were ordered to Los Angeles, and it seemed as madness to undertake a e would not tread on him, he, the cock, would not tread on the horse. It was agreed to and no hostility ensued, although Ridley and his men felt an itching to apply the torch to the Federal fort. The journey to Tuscan was without interest, except t