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THE SIEGE OF CORINTH 83
under arrest by General Beauregard. But nothing
more ever came of it.
After dragging along for more than thirty hours
over a distance ordinarily made in six or seven, we
finally disembarked, in the middle of the night, on
the north side of the railroad, about two miles west
of Corinth. So here we were, without horses, to
confront new conditions, under new commanders,
constrained to learn the art of war in a different
arm of the service, and to drill, to march, and fight
as infantry.
The next morning after our arrival I mounted
the quartermaster's horse, and rode into town, which
was my duty as the quartermaster's right-hand man,
to procure forage for our stock-that is, for the
regimental and brigade headquarters horses, artillery
horses and the wagon teams. I found the road leading
from our camp to town almost impassable owing
to the mud, impassable even for a good horse and
rider, and utterly and absolutely impassable for a
wagon at all, as the best team we had could not
have drawn an empty wagon over the road.
I found Corinth all aglitter with brass buttons and
gold lace, the beautiful Confederate uniform being
much in evidence everywhere. I never had seen anything
like it before.
The Battle of Shiloh had been fought while we
were on the steamer between Duvall's Bluff and Memphis,
General Albert Sidney Johnston had been killed,
and the army under General Beauregard had fallen
back to Corinth, and the town was literally alive
with officers and soldiers. There were more headquarters,
more sentinels, and more red tape here
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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/m1/91/: accessed April 27, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Dallas Public Library.