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OUTBREAK OF THE WAR 21
This was very reluctantly declined, for we were
afraid of losing time. Poor fellows, we often regretted
missing that good dinner, and we really had
plenty of time, if we had only known it. To show
our appreciation of their hospitality we marched
around the public square, displaying the flag and
sounding the bugle. When we had arrived in front
of a saloon we were halted and all invited to dismount
and drink, without cost to us. We here
spent perhaps an hour, during which time numbers
of the boys entered stores to purchase small necessary
articles, and in every instance pay was declined.
In due time we went into camp in a post oak
grove two miles east of Dallas, a locality, by the
way, which is now well within the city limits. And
here we remained for some time.
Eight other organized companies were soon
camped in different localities in the neighborhood,
but we were still one company short. However, as
there were many men, including a large squad from
Kaufman County, some from Cherokee and other
counties, on the ground wishing to go with us, and
who could not get into the organized companies because
they were all full, they organized themselves
into a tenth company, which completed the necessary
number for the regiment.
We spent about four weeks in Dallas County,
a delay caused in good part by the necessity of waiting
for the arrival of a train from San Antonio
carrying United States wagons and mules captured
at that post by the Confederates. The time, however,
was well spent in daily drills, in feeding, graz-
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Barron, S. B. The Lone Star defenders; a chronicle of the Third Texas cavalry, Ross brigade, book, 1908; New York. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth27719/m1/26/: accessed April 27, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Dallas Public Library.