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76 THE LONE STAR DEFENDERS
cupied by a Mr. Jones, formerly of Jackson County,
Alabama, and a brother of Hosea, Allen, William,
and Jesse Jones, good and true men, all of whom I
knew. If he had been my uncle I could not have
been prouder to find him. Here I got a good square
meal for myself and horse, seasoned with a good
hearty welcome. This good, true old man was afterwards
murdered, as I learned, for his loyalty to the
Confederate cause. After enjoying my dinner and
a rest, I proceeded on my way, intending to rejoin
the command that evening; but, missing the road
they were on, I met the regiment at our old winter
quarters. Thus about the middle of March the
Third Texas Cavalry was again housed in the huts
we had erected on the bank of the Arkansas River.
I do not know the casualties of the regiment, but as
far as I remember Company C had only one man,
Jos. Welsh, wounded, and one man, Orderly Sergeant
W. M. Caldwell, captured. But as the prisoners
were exchanged, our captured men soon returned
to us.
Thus ended a short campaign which involved much
suffering to me, as well as others, and was the beginning
of trouble which nearly cost me my life, a
trouble which was not fully recovered from until the
following winter. When I was taken with measles
in Missouri, the disease affected my bowels, and they
became ulcerated, and all through the long spell of
typhoid fever and the very slow convalescence this
trouble was very hard to control. When I left Rusk
to return to the army I was apparently well, but
having been comfortably housed all winter was not
in proper condition to enter such a campaign at this
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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/m1/83/: accessed April 27, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Dallas Public Library.