Nesbitt Memorial Library Journal, Volume 9, Number 2, May 1999 Page: 90
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Nesbitt Memorial Library Journal
miles when we were unexpectedly saluted with
a discharge of artillery right down our line, in-
stantly Scurry commenced forming to the right
and left of the road upon the sides of the moun-
tain. The forces under his command were
Pyron's four Companies A, B, C, and D, of
the 5th, under Shropshire, nine companies of
the 4th under Maj. Raguet, and after his fall
commanded by Capt. Crosson, and four com-
panies of the 7th, commanded by Maj. Joardon,
two sections of artillery. As soon as we were
formed the work of destruction began and con-
tinued for six hours, we driving them inch by
inch back through this rugged pass until we
pushed them back to an open country, when
we charged them and they broke in confusion.
Here Capt Shannon in pursuing them forgot
that men on foot could not keep up with a man
on horse back, and by himself ran in among
them when they picked him up and took him a
long with them to Fort Union. The captain, how-
ever, after they took him kept waving his hat at
us to come on, but we could not catch those
fellows. So thick was the cedar and so rugged
the country that we could not see each other
over ten steps, and Petticolas, of company C,
of the 4th, actually walked through their lines
without seeing them, and even after he passed
them he would not have seen them, but they
mistook him for one of their captains and called
to him, where upon he made himself very sel-
dom about there, got back to our lines and re-
ported the facts to Capt. Crosson, whereupon,
the captain said well young man as you seem to
be safe in passing through their lines suppose
you go back and see if they are still there, but
he thought they might not make the same mis-
take again, but they did for that night when
burying their dead they kept calling him one of
their captains. In this battle Maj. Raguet and
Maj. Shropshire were killed, and Maj. Pyron's
horse was shot in two with a cannon ball, and
yet 'tis said that the fall of the horse did not
interrupt the order he was giving. The twoarmies at no time during the six hours struggle
was over eighty yards apart, and frequently the
struggle was hand to hand with knives and six
shooters. Capt. Buckholts, of company D, af-
ter emptying his pistol, killed two men with his
knife and was himself killed with a sword, but
as the accounts of those who went through it
will be more accurate I will give no further
particulars of that battle.
March 1, 1888
Chapter XVII
From Socora to Glorietta
While we were fighting in the canyon to-
day, the enemy sent a detachment of 300 men
around in our rear and burnt up every wagon
and all the provisions and bedding and clothing
we had, the small guard we left there made all
the resistance they could, and give them a pretty
sharp brush. Nettles fired the cannon he was
left in charge of twice at them, then spiked it,
blew up the caison and himself with it, he has
just come to us and is litterly burnt all over.
Those men sent in our rear to-day certainly are
a set of miscreants, they are certainly no part
or parcel of the brave men we have been con-
fronting and fighting for the past six weeks,
the men who have been fighting us would scorn
to do what they did and would scorn them for
doing it, they fired on our hospital of sick and
wounded men, and when Parson Jones, the
chaplain of the 4th, saw that they would not
respect a yellow flag he took a white flag and
went out in front of the hospital and stood and
waved it until they come up and shot him down.
Oh! wouldn't I liked to have came on that crowd
when they were at that with old company A,
just to see how old company A would have
spread themselves, and to see those fellows
"skeedaddle," but old company A, their ain't
much of her left, twenty-three at Val Verde,
twenty-nine here, eleven gone from pneumo-
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Nesbitt Memorial Library. Nesbitt Memorial Library Journal, Volume 9, Number 2, May 1999, periodical, May 1999; Columbus, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth151406/m1/42/?q=nesbitt%20memorial%20library%20journal: accessed April 28, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Nesbitt Memorial Library.