. Lone Star defenders; a chronicle of the Third Texas Cavalry, Ross' Brigade . r old winterquarters. Thus about the middle of March theThird Texas Cavalry was again housed in the hutswe had erected on the bank of the Arkansas do not know the casualties of the regiment, but asfar as I remember Company C had only one man,Jos. Welsh, wounded, and one man, Orderly SergeantW. M. Caldwell, captured. But as the prisonerswere exchanged, our captured men soon returnedto us. Thus ended a short campaign which involved muchsuffering to me, as well as others, and was the be-ginning of trouble which
. Lone Star defenders; a chronicle of the Third Texas Cavalry, Ross' Brigade . r old winterquarters. Thus about the middle of March theThird Texas Cavalry was again housed in the hutswe had erected on the bank of the Arkansas do not know the casualties of the regiment, but asfar as I remember Company C had only one man,Jos. Welsh, wounded, and one man, Orderly SergeantW. M. Caldwell, captured. But as the prisonerswere exchanged, our captured men soon returnedto us. Thus ended a short campaign which involved muchsuffering to me, as well as others, and was the be-ginning of trouble which nearly cost me my life, atrouble which was not fully recovered from until thefollowing winter. When I was taken with measlesin Missouri, the disease affected my bowels, and theybecame ulcerated, and all through the long spell oftyphoid fever and the very slow convalescence thistrouble was very hard to control. When I left Ruskto return to the army I was apparently well, buthaving been comfortably housed all winter was notin proper condition to enter such a campaign at this. Captain D. R. Gurlky Sixth Texas Cavalry, A. A. G. Ross Brigade THE WAR IN MISSOURI 77 season of the year. Before leaving winter quartersthe men were ordered to prepare ten days rations,and when we overtook the command at Fayettevillethey had been out nearly that length of time, andrations were already growing scarce. We fur-loughed men and a number of recruits who had ac-companied us to join the command were not hereto draw or prepare rations, and our only chance fora living was to share rations with our comrades, whowere as liberal and generous as they could be, butthey were not able to do much. From the time I overtook the command until wegot back to winter quarters was about ten days, andthe few days we were in winter quarters were spentin preparing to cross the Mississippi River. Forthe first four or five days I managed to procure, onan average, about one biscuit per day; for the otherfive days we were
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