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86 THE LONE STAR DEFENDERS
moved to the house of a citizen two or three miles in
the country, where he was nursed by his faithful servant
Bob, General W. L. Cabell meantime being placed
in command of the brigade. General Hogg died
a few days later-on the day of the battle of Farmington.
The following "pathetic story of Civil War
times" having been published in the Nashville
(Tenn.) Banner, Youth's Companion, Jacksonville
(Tex.) Reformer, and perhaps many other papers,
I insert it here in order to give its correction a sort
of permanent standing:
A SOLDIER'S GRAVE
A pathetic story of Civil War times is related to the older
people of Chester County in the western part of Tennessee by
the recent death of ex-Governor James S. Hogg of Texas.
Some days after the battle of Shiloh, one of the decisive and
bloody engagements of the war, fought on April 6-7, 1862, a
lone and wounded Confederate soldier made his way to a log
cabin located in the woods four miles west of Corinth, Miss.,
and begged for shelter and food. The man was weak from
hunger and loss of blood, and had evidently been wandering
through the woods of the sparsely settled section for several
days after the battle. The occupants of the cottage had little
to give, but divided this little with the soldier. They took the
man in and administered to his wants as best they could with
their limited resources. They were unable to secure medical
attention, and the soldier, already emaciated from the lack of
food and proper attention, gradually grew weaker and weaker
until he died. Realizing his approaching end, the soldier requested
that his body be buried in the wood near the house,
and marked with a simple slab bearing his name, "General J.
L. Hogg, Rusk, Texas."
The request was complied with, and in the years that passed
the family which had so nobly cared for this stranger moved
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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/m1/94/: accessed April 27, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Dallas Public Library.