. Hood's Texas brigade, its marches, its battles, its achievements . ries won by the brigade, it was none the less its cour-age, endurance and unconquerable spirit that uplifted andgave him distinction and promotion. Each trusted the other—Hood, that the brigade would accomplish all he asked ofit—the Texas Brigade, that he would make no demand on itbeyond its power. It was this feeling between them that prompted the brigadeto adopt and cling to the distinctive title of Hoods TexasBrigade—it was this feeling that was uppermost in the mindof Hood, when at Chickamauga, believing himself, perhaps,
. Hood's Texas brigade, its marches, its battles, its achievements . ries won by the brigade, it was none the less its cour-age, endurance and unconquerable spirit that uplifted andgave him distinction and promotion. Each trusted the other—Hood, that the brigade would accomplish all he asked ofit—the Texas Brigade, that he would make no demand on itbeyond its power. It was this feeling between them that prompted the brigadeto adopt and cling to the distinctive title of Hoods TexasBrigade—it was this feeling that was uppermost in the mindof Hood, when at Chickamauga, believing himself, perhaps,mortally wounded, he fell from his horse into the waiting armsof members of his old brigade, and as he fell, gave his lastorder on that field, Go ahead, and keep ahead of every-thing, in the words of the command they had so often heardhim shout to them in Virginia, Maryland and insistence of the survivors of the command to which thatorder was addressed on being known as members of HoodsTexas Brigade, is not intended as a disparagement of the. Captain J. T. HunterCompany H, Fourth Texas Regiment HACING 204 HOODS TEXAS BRIGADE 205 military ability of their subsequent brigade commanders, Gen-erals Jerome B. Robertson and John Gregg. Each of thesewas brave and capable and his memory is yet cherished in thehearts of the soldiers he commanded; but neither had the per-sonal magnetism of Hood, nor the swinging dash and reck-less yet cool disregard of danger, which, from the outset, wonthe love and admiration of a brigade largely composed of boysjust flowering into manhood. And, although both Robertsonand Gregg had lived many years in Texas, neither made asjust an estimate as Hood, of Texas character, nor felt andacted in such accord with it. The larger part of the fighting done at Chickamauga wasin the somber shadows of thick growths of large pine soil sterile, it was only now and then that a clearing gavethe combatants access to uninterrupted sunlight
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