Nesbitt Memorial Library Journal, Volume 7, Number 2, May 1997 Page: 78
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Nesbitt Memorial Library Journal
Earlier, other county men had begun making even stronger commitments to the
war effort. With their appetites whetted by the easy duties of the militia, on July 10, 1861,
a group of volunteers met in Columbus and formed themselves into a company of infan-
try for regular army service. They elected Upton captain, James Daniel Roberdeau first
lieutenant, Bullington second lieutenant, and Andrew Campbell Burford third lieutenant;
and they adopted the name Echo Company. In late July, as the company set out for Virginia,
it was presented with a tri-colored flag inscribed with the motto "The Echo--Our
Defenders" by Cynthia Campbell. On July 30, they were camped near Harrisburg with five
other companies, and the trials of military service had already begun to set in. Numerous
men were sick with chills and fever. The company's original third lieutenant, Burford,
apparently did not accompany the company, for by the end of the month, he had been
replaced by Edward Collier. On August 5, four or five more men left Columbus to join the
company at Harrisburg. The expanded company started for Virginia on August 13. Among
its members was one of the three brothers who owned the local newspaper, Benjamin
Marshall Baker, and the schoolteacher, D. H. Henderson, each of whom began as
sergeants. The artist Howal A. Tatum, who had recently declared as a candidate for
congress, the physician Thomas T. DeGraffenried, and the attorney William John Darden,
who had represented Colorado County in the sixth legislature, all had enlisted as privates.
So had William Augustus Bridge, William H. Carlton, David M. Currie, Blythe W.
Haynes, John M. Jenkins, William W. Pinchback, Calvin B. Tanner, and Enoch Thaddeus
Wright, who, like Burford, were all the sons of local slaveowners. The company also
included three men who managed plantations, James Reynolds, John B. Wall, and Joe H.
Whitehead, and five German-born men, Emil Auerbach, Emil Besch, Max Cabaniss, Jacob
Hahn, and Fred Koepke. They soon suffered their first casualty. Andrew Legg started with
the company for Virginia, but fell ill and returned to his father's home. He died there on
August 25. Nonetheless, the men were in a jolly mood. For one thing, they had not yet seen
combat, and still believed they were on their way to adventure and glory. For another, they
had money. A small amount of money that had been raised at an 1860 benefit for the
Columbus cemetery had been donated to the company, and, on August 17, the county had
donated another $400. The young soldiers stripped to their underwear and gleefully
splashed through the Louisiana swamps. They arrived at New Orleans on September 8 and
there boarded a train. Riding the rest of the way, they reached Richmond, Virginia, on
September 17 and waited to go into action. Before the end of the year, they would receive
a number of blankets, socks, and other supplies collected and shipped to them by Collier's
law partner, Richard V. Cook. The blankets were probably carried to the company by
vol. 15, pp. 853-854). After the war, Nave kept his cannon, and on the day of his funeral, in 1904, it was set
up on Milam Street in Columbus and fired several times. In 1930, the cannon was donated to the Witte Memorial
Museum in San Antonio. It has since disappeared from the museum grounds.78
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