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repulsed attack after attack until the battle died down.
When asked by General Lee on the condition of the Texas Brigade,
Hood replied "The Texas Brigade is dead on the field."
When the casualty reports were compiled at the end of the war,
it was discovered that at Sharpsburg Hood's Texas Brigade had
lost 82% of her fighting force in the battle, and that the
First Texas Regiment of which Rainey and Woodward's companies
had been assigned had lost close to 85%, the highest casualty
rate inflicted on any fighting outfit during the four years of
war.
There were several other companies raised in the county
during the war. Among these was James W. Gardner's Comapny I,
Anderson County Volunteer Company of Cavalry or known locally
as the Anderson County Buckhunters (Company I, 7th Texas Cavalry"
See related article in this issue of the Tracings.) This company
was enrolled on October 1, 1861. There was also Captain
William Tucker's Company G, of Texas Lancers commanded by Horace
Randal in May 1862 for a term of 3 years.
Other companies organized in Anderson County included
units organized by Jackson J. Davis in 1862, C. W. Graves in
1861, Higginbottom in 1864, William H. Lawrence in 1861, Rufus
M Mynett in 1862, Benjamin Parker in 1861, B. F. Parks in
1861, P. J. Simons in 1861, James E. Teague in 1861, Jesse
Vannoy in 1861, and J. M. Wood in 1861.
On the home front, Anderson County was little affected
by the war. There was the ever increasing number of men marching
off to war, but business went on as usual. The news of the
war took two to three months to reach Palestine because of the
slow communication that was evident throughout the South. The
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Anderson County Genealogical Society. The Tracings, Volume 5, Number 1, Winter 1986, periodical, 1986-01~; Palestine, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth37982/m1/11/: accessed April 26, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Anderson County Genealogical Society.