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of the army then being stationed there. Upon his bre and placing the Yankee officer ho.s do combat.
arrival at Manassas, he was immediately attached Although the brave brigade had gained the thresto
thle Staff of General Beaureguard, 1who reposed hold of the enemy, at fire at a few yards, which
great confidence in his judgment and abilities, nothing could withstald, compelled them to fall
When General Johnston assumed coinmmnand of the back with but a hiiandfutl remiaining of their courarmy
at Manassas, General Cabell (then Major) ageous brigade, which camie out of the thlree enwas
transferred to his Stailt At the first great gageniments. withi not minore thian four hundred left
battle of Manassas, Major Cabell behaved with uninjured. General (Cabetll was afterwards injured
great gallantry, and on several occeasious exposed by a fall fron is hit,orse. Major Jones the formner
himself to the enemy's fire to such a degree, that commandant of the pos t tTupelo, was killed in
General Bea reguard ordered him to desist, at the the first charge on the entrenchlnient, while leading
same time saying: ",lMajor Cabell your life is too his men to the chlarge. lie was an officer young
valuable to the Confederacy to be thus endangered." in years, and known for hIis ability and eourage,
Major Cabell remained upon General Johnston's and wVas lainented bly ite whole command.
Staff until the Quartermaster and Commnissa'ry departmuents
of the army of the West became in suchI '
a condition, that nothing but a man of greatest
sagacity and coolniess could save them from the
entanglement in which they liad gotten, when he ' R OWN, JOHIN Hi1N.Y, of Dallas, was born
was ordered to report for duty to General Van in Pike county, Missouri October 29, 1820,
Dorn, who soon recognized in him a man of supe- -A whlile Miss nuri was yet a Territory. His
rior qualities, and placed him in command o ptirents were both Kentuckians, but his
brigade of Louisiana and Texas troops, whic h bri- prior ancestors, for several genierations, were nagade
distinguished itself at the battle of Corinth, tives of Baltimnore and Carrols l counties, Maryland.
by its stern resistanice and desperate charges upon is father, Captain Ienry S. Brown, came to
the enemy. General Cabell was thrown from his Texas in 1824, and for ten years WaS engaged in
horse during fithe engagemtent, and quite severely, the Indian and Mexic'an traUd, and hIdl many
though not seriously injured. encouanters with both Indians anid lawless Mexicans.
While on duty at Manassas, (enieral Cabell was At the head of forty-two nmet lhe fought and de.on
two several occasions earnestly recommended, feated the Indians, where Waco. now stands, in 1825,
both by Generals Johnston and Beatturegaird, for burning the village. In 182 lie defeated the Indipromotion,
but for some inexplicable reason, Presi- ains at the mouthl of Pecan Bayou, from which fact,
dent Davis refused to promote him, tas well as that j twenty-three yeais after his dh,athT, Briown county
gallant old Missouri chieftain, General Sterling was inared for hiint. From I828 to 1811 he had
~~~~~~~~~~~!Price.li ay adix venturos and engage-ients with the IndiGeneral
Cabell had five brothers, four of xwhorn ans, ail in 8:12 ominianded the largest company
were in the Confederate service, the remaining onie in the victornious battle of VeIasco, where a supehaving
been killed in the battle of Seven Pines. 1 rior Mexican force surrendered a strong fort. He
Aji army correspondent relates the following in died at Columbia, Braznria county, July 26th, 1.834.
regard to the daring of General Cabell at the bat- Thi subject of this notice, though a virtual
the of Corinth: Texan fr,om his cildhood ti, ro,o'oaiuet iin Missouri
."On Saturday morning, Cabell's brigade, Maury's till Ih laurned the printiti bulsiness, his fuanily
division, was ordered to charge the formidable fort I being partly int Texas and partly in \lissouri. Peron
College Hill. They advanced unhesitatingly at, inan.ntly settling in the eouintry after tihe death
a charge bayonets to within thirty yards of the ,of lis fatther, when still in his teens, lie at once
position before they were fired upon, when they Ib}ecanle identified witht the fronmtier and its strugwere
awfully slaughtered. Still onward they went, 'gles against Indians and Mexican marauders, often
after returnifig the fire with the, general at their thlron with Burleson, Caldwell, Owien, thle MeCulIhead.
When they reachied the entrenclihments, lothh Brothers, Colonel Jtohtn II. Moore, Itayes, Tom
General Cabell. boldly mounted the enemy's ara- Green, (illispaie, Walker, Caameron, E'asland, Rabb,
pet, closely followed by his command. The first land all of thatt class of leaders on thlie frontier of
man he encountered was a Federal colonel, who the West and S,outhwest. For at number of years
gave the command to "kill that d--d rebel officer." i he, in coaonoH with the young men of that day,'
Cabell replied by making a right cut wvith his, sa-i was avXavs 'ready ais a citizen-soldier, to mount
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