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OUR FIRST BATTLE 47
and after the conflict, but to see a battle in progress,
to hear the deafening roar of artillery, and the terrible,
ceaseless rattle of musketry; to see the rapid
movements of troops, hear the shouts of men engaged
in mortal combat, and to realize the sensation
of being a participant, and then after hours of
doubtful contest to see the enemy fleeing from the
field-all this was grand and terrible. But while
there is a grandeur in a battle, there are many horrors,
and unfortunately the horrors are wide-spread
-they go home to the wives, fathers, mothers, and
sisters of the slain.
After the battle was over we were slowly moving
in column across the field unmolested, but being
fired on by some of the enemy's sharpshooters,
who were keeping up a desultory fire at long range,
when young Mr. Willie, son of Judge A. H. Willie,
a member of Company A, which was in advance of
us, came riding up the column, passing us. I was
riding with Captain Taylor at the head of our
company, and just as Willie was passing us a ball
from one of the sharpshooters' rifles struck him in
the left temple, and killed him. But for his position
the ball would have struck me in another instant.
After all the Federals capable of locomotion had
left the field, we were moved up the road on which
Sigel had retreated, as far as a mill some five miles
away, where we had ample witness of the execution
done by our cavalry-dead men in blue were strewn
along the road in a horrible manner. On returning,
late in the afternoon, we were ordered back to the
camp we had left in the morning. As we had wit-
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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/m1/53/: accessed April 27, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Dallas Public Library.