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CAPTAIN JEFF
CHAPTER I.
Capt. Jeff Resigned his Commission as Captain of Co. i, Seventeenth Tex.
Volunteer Infantry, McCullough's Brigade, Walker's Division,
Feb. 19, 1863, on account of bad health, and
went to his home in Burnett Co. Texas.
On February 19th, 1863, two horsemen were seen winding
their way carefully through a creek bottom that was completely
covered with water for a distance of one and a half miles in
width, and ever and anon a plunge into swimming water would
be taken as they came to the depressions, or the sloughs, that ran
through the bottom; this was on the road that leads from Pine
Bluff, Ark., to Austin, Texas. Gen. John B. Walker's Division of
Confederate Soldiers had gone in to winter quarters near Pine Bluff.
The appearance of these horsemen denoted that they were Confed
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Maltby, William Jeff. Captain Jeff; or, frontier life in Texas with the Texas Rangers, book, 1906; Colorado, Tex.. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth33010/m1/17/: accessed April 23, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Star of the Republic Museum.