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THE SIEGE OF CORINTH 89
Lewis, and James Stephen, all the circumstances of the sickness,
the lamented death and burial of the husband and father,
Brigadier-General Joseph Louis Hogg.
Our camp was moved to a point about three miles
east of Corinth. Decherd, the quartermaster, resigned
and W. F. Rapley was appointed quartermaster
by General Cabell. The rate at which our men
fell sick was remarkable, as well as appalling, and
distressing in the extreme. The water we had to
drink was bad, very bad, and the rations none of the
best. The former we procured by digging for it;
the earth around Corinth being very light and
porous, holding water like a sponge. When we first
went there the ground was full of water, and by digging
a hole two feet deep we could dip up plenty of
a mean, milky-looking fluid; but as the season advanced
the water sank, so we dug deeper, and continued
to go down, until by the latter part of May
our water holes were from eight to twelve feet deep,
still affording the same miserable water. My horse
would not drink a drop of the water the men had to
use, and if I failed to ride him to a small running
branch some two miles away he would go without
drinking. The rations consisted mainly of flour,
made into poor -camp biscuit, and the most unpalatable
pickled beef.
As fared General Hogg and his staff, so fared all
the new troops who saw their first service at Corinth.
While many of the old troops were taken sick, it
was much worse with the new. We had one or two
new Texas regiments come into our brigade, whose
first morning report showed 1200 men able for duty;
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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/m1/97/: accessed May 15, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Dallas Public Library.