. Battles and sketches of the Army of Tennessee . a good horse and had a pairof tine holsters. Two of us, anxious for big game, commandedhim to surrender, but that fellow went for his navies, and, fearingthat our little six shooters were too small, we withdrew, for betterguns and after picking up a few more boys, followed on and took himin seven miles this side of Lebanon. He said that he was not goingto let two boys with pocket pistols capture him. That colonel wassix miles from the battlefield, and a Federal officer told me after thewar that he was cashiered for cowardice. Notwithstanding th
. Battles and sketches of the Army of Tennessee . a good horse and had a pairof tine holsters. Two of us, anxious for big game, commandedhim to surrender, but that fellow went for his navies, and, fearingthat our little six shooters were too small, we withdrew, for betterguns and after picking up a few more boys, followed on and took himin seven miles this side of Lebanon. He said that he was not goingto let two boys with pocket pistols capture him. That colonel wassix miles from the battlefield, and a Federal officer told me after thewar that he was cashiered for cowardice. Notwithstanding the apparent confusion in the enemys rear onThursday, the roaring of artillery continued at Murfreesboro, andabout three oclock on Friday the firing of artillery and small armswas more terrific than usual. A fearful battle was evidently in prog-ress. It turned out to be Breckinridges fatal charge,where he is saidto have been repulsed with a loss of 1,500 privates and 300 officerskilled and wounded. It is the history of that event that he was driv-. GENERAL G. P. THRUSTON. 154 BATTLES AND SKETCHES ARMY OF TENNESSEE. ing one or two lines into the river at McFaddens ford, when fifty-twopieces of artillery opened up and almost decimated his ranks. On thatFriday, my dear mother made her way to Murfreesboro through theConfederate pickets to look after husband and sons, and reachedthere, after passing through long lines of cavalry mounted, andready for the conflict. I quote from a letter she wrote of this trip: On entering townwhat a sight met my eyes! Prisoners entering every street, ambu-lances bringing in the wounded, every place crowded with the dying,the Federal general, Sill, lying dead in the courthouse—killedWednesday—Frank Crosthwaits (Twentieth Tennessee) lifeless corpsestretched on a counter. He had been visiting my house and waskilled on Wednesday. The churches were full of wounded wherethe doctors were amputating legs and arms. I found my own safe, and being informed th
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