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74 THE LONE STAR DEFENDERS
picket duty and went into camp at midnight, he cut
it up and divided it among the men. I drew a
shoulder-blade, with perhaps as much as four ounces
of meat on it. This I broiled and ate without salt
or bread.
We continued the march southward, passing ten
or twelve miles east of Fayetteville. About the
fourth day we had been resting, and the commissary
force was out hustling for something to eat, but
before we got any rations the Third Texas was suddenly
ordered to mount immediately and go in search
of our missing artillery. This was in the afternoon,
perhaps four o'clock. Moving in a northeasterly
direction, we marched all night on to
the headwaters of White River, where that stream is
a mere creek, and I do not think it would be an exaggeration
to say that we crossed it twenty times during
the night. About 10 A. M. we passed through
Huntsville, county seat of Madison County, a small
town having the appearance of being destitute of
everything. By this time the matter of food had
become a very serious question, and we appeared to
be in much greater danger of dying from starvation
in the mountains of northern Arkansas than by
the enemy's bullets. Our belts had been tightened
until there was no relief in that, and, as if to enhance
my own personal suffering, the tantalizing fact
occurred to me that I was treading my native heath,
so to speak, for I am a native of Madison County,
and Huntsville had been my home for years, where
to enjoy three squares a day had been an unbroken
habit of years. But to-day I was literally starving
in the town of Huntsville, County of Madison, afore-
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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/m1/81/: accessed April 27, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Dallas Public Library.