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66 THE LONE STAR DEFENDERS
ment was charging around on horseback, while the
captains of companies were shouting orders to their
men in the vain endeavor to get them into some
kind of shape.
In the meantime the bullets were coming thick
around us three dismounted men, knocking the bark
from the hickory trees in our vicinity into our
faces in a lively manner. Finally concluding we
could do no good without support, we returned to
our horses, mounted, and joined the confusion, and
soon managed to move out of range of the enemy's
guns. Brave old Captain Hale, very much chagrined
and mortified by this affair, considered the
regiment disgraced, and said as much in very emphatic,
but not very choice, English. I do not remember
the precise language he used, but he was
quoted as saying: " This here regiment are disgraced
forever! I'd 'a' rather died right thar than
to a give airy inch! " I do not know how many men
we lost in this affair, but Vie. Rose says ten killed
and twenty wounded. I remember that Joe Welch
was wounded in the thigh, but I do not remember
any other casualty in Company C. This was reckoned
as the first day of the three days' battle of Elkhorn
Tavern, or Pea Ridge.
General Earl Van Dorn had taken command of
the entire army on March 2, and conducted the remainder
of the campaign to its close. General
Price's division consisted of the Missouri troops.
General McCulloch was placed in command of the
infantry of his old division, consisting of the Third
Louisiana, commanded by Colonel Louis Hebert (pronounced
Hebair), and the Arkansas infantry, and
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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/m1/73/: accessed April 27, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Dallas Public Library.