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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), chapter 18 (search)
members of his staff, Captain Kilgore, Major Spencer, Capt. R. Todhunter, volunteer aide, Capt. W. H. Smith, Lieutenant Lane (wounded), Maj. W. B. Ector and Surgeon L. J. Graham. The loss of the br and later held a position until left without support and flanked. Granbury reported that Capt. W. H. Smith, after acting with marked gallantry, fell pierced with three balls; Capt. J. W. Brown was ee days they were under fire and suffered from a fierce bombardment. The detailed report of Colonel Smith is of great interest, describing the assault made by a column of 5 regiments, and the gallan cannon was early disabled and the detachment for the other was depleted. About 2 o'clock, said Smith, I ordered it to be run up into battery and fired. As the last remaining corporal raised himsely his side, shot through the brain. He lingered a few days. At the close of the assault, Colonel Smith said, the Federal dead lay so-thick in front that along the road for more than 200 yards one