. A cavalryman's reminiscences of the Civil War [electronic resource] . dispatch of Gen. Johnston s to Beauregard, dat-ed Decatur, March 11, 1S02, among other things isthe following: My cavalry, a part of which still ob-serves the enemy near Xashville, had a smart skir-mish with the enemy s cavalrv six miles from Xash-ville day before yesterday, bortv of Scotts cavalryattacked 100 of the enemys, killed twelve, routed themand burned their tents. We lost two, one killed andone mortally wounded. The force here is in good con-dition and fine spirits. Thev are anxious to meet theenemy \ crv respect
. A cavalryman's reminiscences of the Civil War [electronic resource] . dispatch of Gen. Johnston s to Beauregard, dat-ed Decatur, March 11, 1S02, among other things isthe following: My cavalry, a part of which still ob-serves the enemy near Xashville, had a smart skir-mish with the enemy s cavalrv six miles from Xash-ville day before yesterday, bortv of Scotts cavalryattacked 100 of the enemys, killed twelve, routed themand burned their tents. We lost two, one killed andone mortally wounded. The force here is in good con-dition and fine spirits. Thev are anxious to meet theenemy \ crv respectfully vour obedient servant, A. S. Jo 11 x ST<) x,(ieneral ( S Vol X, Series 1, part II, official records. Page 310. We now started for Pulaski and thence on to Deca-tur, Ala. Here we went into camp and many recruitsfrom Louisiana and elsewhere joined us; among them,Dr A. Porter Brown, A. E. Carter and Charles Mc-Vea in Company E; Frank A. Monroe in CompanyC, and many others whose names cannot now be re-called. Some regularly enlisted and others joined as. Judge FRANK A. MONROE, 1900. OF THE CIVIL WAR. 25 independents {peacocks the boys called them), thatis, they were willing to fight with us and do guardduty, but would not be sworn in; the}- wanted to re-serve the right to leave when they felt so Brown, being prominent in his profession, wassoon acting as assitant surgeon, the surgeon beingabsent. The early days of April found us at Corinth,and like most of the troops we were ordered to thefront to take part in the great battle of Shiloh, thatwas to be fought. Sunday morning, the 6th, we wereon the extreme right of the army and there we re-mained during the progress of the two days word was passed along the line that Gen. John-ston was killed the chilliness of gloom crept over ourentire command. We believed him to be the greatestmilitary man of the age. We had followed and watchedhim in his matchless retreat from Bowling Green, andalthough s
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