. A cavalryman's reminiscences of the Civil War [electronic resource] . et and was an effective shot, the bullet passing throughGeorge Pietz and he fell to the ground a dying was one of Company Es. recruits; an excellentsoldier he was, formerly belonged to the \rniv of Vir-ginia and had been wounded four times, the last beingsuch a terrible one that he was discharged and his oldcomrades never dreamed that he would he able to takeup arms again, but lie recovered and joined Companv1;. to receive his last wound. IF belonged to thathardy race of Teutons whose soldierly qualities
. A cavalryman's reminiscences of the Civil War [electronic resource] . et and was an effective shot, the bullet passing throughGeorge Pietz and he fell to the ground a dying was one of Company Es. recruits; an excellentsoldier he was, formerly belonged to the \rniv of Vir-ginia and had been wounded four times, the last beingsuch a terrible one that he was discharged and his oldcomrades never dreamed that he would he able to takeup arms again, but lie recovered and joined Companv1;. to receive his last wound. IF belonged to thathardy race of Teutons whose soldierly qualities theworld had an opportunity to contemplate and admirea few years after this, when Von Moltke gave to Francea terrible lesson in war. We do not know where Pietzcame from or where was his home, but we know thathe was a good Confederate soldier. Peace to his negro who did the shooting was riddled with bul-lets and many others of the same command were Federal garrison or a large portion of it soondouble-quicked out to the scene of action, and we had. Major S. W. CAMPBELL, 1865. OF THE CIVIL WAR. 113 to hurriedly leave; succeeded, however, in getting offwith our captured horses, etc. It was now fight andfall back, what we call a running fight. On reachingBaton Rouge bayou we expected to find Col. Powersregiment, but to our dismay they were not there andthe only thing left for us to do was to make a desper-ate stand at the crossing. It was done and the enemychecked. We lost, though, several good men, killedand wounded, Major Campbell receiving a severewound in the side, not a dangerous one, though, for itwas not long before he was back at his post again. Thefight, we might say, ended here, though, a few of theenemy followed us on through the lane as far as theAlexander house, near which E. F Brian, a most gal-lant and chivalrous soldier boy, lost his leg. McKowenhad accomplished his part of the days work, but owingto misconception or misconstruction of orders th
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