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Col. O. M. Roberts, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 12.1, Alabama (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Biographical. (search)
allant soldier, and a Christian gentleman. Brigadier-General Zachary C. Deas was born in Camden, S. C., October 25, 1819. His father was James S. Deas, who represented Mobile county in the Alabama legislature in 1857, his mother a sister of Hon in the Confederacy to supply the men who enlisted. So Colonel Deas paid out of his own means $28,000 in gold for 800 Enfieought under Loomis and Coltart at Murfreesboro, after which Deas, promoted to brigadier-general December 13, 1862, took commixth and Fiftieth. At Chickamauga this brigade, led by General Deas, struck in the flank and routed Sheridan's division, kin. W. H. Lytle and capturing seventeen pieces of artillery, Deas himself losing forty per cent of his force engaged. He alsch fully shared in the desperate assault at Franklin, where Deas led his brigade with great gallantry, and was slightly wounn December 16th Gen. Johnson was captured at Nashville, and Deas then took command of the remnant of the division, and led i