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incredible casualties along the way. At Antietam, for example, the
Guards suffered sixteen wounded and three killed. Two of the dead
were Clinton E. Perry and his cousin Harwood Earl Perry. Each of these
men also had a brother wounded in the same battle. One of the broth-
ers recovered only to be killed later at the Wilderness. Capt. F. S. Bass of
the Marshall Guards suffered at least three wounds during the war but
rose to become colonel in command of the First Texas Infantry. He sur-
rendered the regiment at Appomattox in April 1865.6
The third 1861 Harrison County company was formed by men from
the eastern half of the county who adopted the name "Texas Hunters,"
and became Company A of the Third Texas Cavalry. Their captain was
Thomas W. Winston, a thirty-two-year-old planter, and their first colonel
was Elkanah Greer, a Harrison County resident who had served with
Jefferson Davis's famed regiment, the "Mississippi Rifles," during the
Mexican War. The Texas Hunters saw their first action in the Arkansas-
Missouri border area at the Battle of Wilson's Creek in 1861, where they
took the first casualties suffered by Harrison County soldiers during the
war, and at Pea Ridge in 1862. In the spring of 1862 the Hunters
crossed the Mississippi and fought in the effort to hold northern Missis-
sippi after the Battle of Shiloh. In 1863 they became part of Ross's Texas
Brigade (commanded by Lawrence Sullivan "Sul" Ross) and served in
both the Atlanta and Tennessee campaigns in 1864.7
The fourth and fifth Harrison County Companies raised in 1861--the
"Bass Grays" commanded by Capt. Khleber M. Van Zandt (a son of Isaac
Van Zandt) and the "Texas Invincibles" commanded by Capt. William B.
Hill (a forty-four-year-old minister)-became Companies D and H re-
spectively of the Seventh Texas Infantry commanded by Col. John
Gregg. Assigned to Gen. Albert Sidney Johnston's army in western
Kentucky, these two companies were trapped at Fort Donelson on the
Cumberland River in February 1862 and forced to surrender. Captain
Hill and Lt. Col. Jeremiah M. Clough (K M. Van Zandt's brother-in-law)
were both killed in the fighting before the surrender. The soldiers in
these two companies were prisoners of war at the notorious Camp
Douglas in Illinois, but those who survived the experience were
exchanged within a year. Then, they fought in the defense of Vicksburg,
suffering terrible casualties in a "skirmish" at Raymond, Mississippi, and
surrendering again when Vicksburg fell. This time they were immediate-
ly exchanged and wound up fighting at Chickamauga in September
6 Simpson, Marshall Guards, passim; Campbell, Southern Community in Crtsss, 201, 210, 216-
217; Sifakis, Compendium of the Confederate Armies, 1 o6-18.
Campbell, Southern Community in Crisis, 201-203, 205-20o6, 2a10-211, 217; Sifakis,
Compendium of the Confederate Armies, 47-48; Hale, The Third Texas Cavalry in the Civil War.July
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