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30 THE LONE STAR DEFENDERS
jailed in Fort Smith for shooting a -citizen in the
street, and here we left him and crossed the Mississippi
River. He made his escape from jail and followed
us to the State of Mississippi, when Lieutenant-Colonel
Lane ordered him out of camp. He
afterwards returned to Rusk, where he was killed
one day by a gunshot wound, but by whom no one
seemed to know.
We passed through Sherman early in the morning,
and I stopped to have my horse shod, overtaking
the command at Colbert's ferry in the afternoon,
when they were crossing Red River. The day
was fair, the weather dry and hot. The river, very
low now, had high banks, and in riding down from
the south side you came on to a wide sandbar extending
to a narrow channel running against the north
bank, where a small ferryboat was carrying the
wagons and artillery across. A few yards above the
ferry the river was easily fordable, so the horsemen
had all crossed and gone into camp a mile beyond the
river, as had most of the wagons. I rode to the
other side and stopped on the north bank to watch
operations.
All the wagons but one had been ferried over, and
this last one had been driven down on the sandbar
near the ferry landing. waiting for the boat's return,
while two pieces of artillery were standing
near by on the sandbar. Suddenly I heard a roaring
sound up the river, as if a wind storm was coming.
I looked in that direction and saw a veritable
flood rushing down like a mighty wave of the sea,
roaring and foaming as it came. The driver of the
team standing near the water saw it and instinctively
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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/m1/36/: accessed April 27, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Dallas Public Library.