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42 THE LONE STAR DEFENDERS
In order to move it, we pressed into service the only
two wagons we could find with teams, but so overloaded
one of them that the wheels broke down when
we started off. We then carried the lead on our
horses,-except what we thought could be hauled
in the remaining wagon,-out some distance and
hid it in a thicket of hazelnut bushes. We then,
with our prisoners and the one wagon, returned to
camp. When the prisoners were marched up to
regimental headquarters Lieutenant-Colonel Lane
said, " Turn them out of the lines and let them go.
I would rather fight them than feed them."
This raiding party of two companies that made
the descent upon Little York was commanded by
Captain Taylor, and the raid resulted, substantially,
as I have stated. Nevertheless, even the next day
wild, exaggerated stories of the affair were told, and
believed by many members of our own regiment as
well as other portions of the army, and in Victor
Rose's " History of Ross's Brigade," the following
version of the little exploit may be read: " Captain
Frank Taylor, of Company C, made a gallant dash
into a detachment guarding a train loaded with supplies
for Lyon, routing the detachment, taking a
number of prisoners, and capturing the entire
train." And " the historian" was a member of
Company A, Third Texas Cavalry! From this language
one would infer that Capt
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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/m1/48/: accessed April 26, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Dallas Public Library.