The Lone Star defenders; a chronicle of the Third Texas cavalry, Ross brigade Page: 89 of 306
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THE SIEGE OF CORINTH 81
After several days' waiting a steamboat came up
the river, landing at the Bluff, and we were crowded
upon it for our journey down White River into the
Mississippi and up to Memphis, and it was hard to
realize that the booming, navigable river we were
now on was the same stream we had forded so many
times in the mountains of northern Arkansas on the
night we went in search of our lost artillery. When
we got on the Mississippi we found it very high,
numbers of houses along the banks being surrounded
by water up to the front doorsteps, where numerous
small skiffs could be seen moored. These skiffs furnished
the residents their only means of going from
house to house.
Arriving at Memphis, we marched away up Poplar
Street to the suburbs, and camped in a grove, where
we remained several days, spending the time in preparation
for the move to Corinth, Miss. Here General
Hogg took formal command of his brigade, and,
having told me that he wanted Tom Johnson and
myself at his headquarters, he had us detailed,-Tom
to the ordnance department and me in the quartermaster's
department, while John A. Boyd was detailed
to work in the commissary department.
Word having finally come for us to proceed to
Corinth, we were crowded into a train on the Memphis
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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/m1/89/: accessed April 27, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Dallas Public Library.