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Southwestern Historical Quarterly
Texas. Saw no jayhawkers and met with no romantic adventures.
Will write home this evening. Draw i months's pay today.
Oct. ii Sunday-Being ordered to take up the line of March,
retraced our steps to Belle Cheney Springs, -turned Northward and
marching 14 miles arrived at Jackson's Bridge95 about 4 P.M. Co.
C's wagons broke down about midway of this day's march and did
not arrive at Camp until after night. Our cart also broke down, the
wheel being entirely demolished about 5 miles from the bridge.
Leaving Cave [Johnson] with it and taking the donkey (though
field officer of the day) I proceeded on to camp and then after the
arrival of the train, procured a wagon of Capt. Brown,9 returned to
our cart and succeeded in hauling it to the Bridge, arriving about
dark. Rumors prevalent of the advance of the Yanks below, and that
they are in the vicinity of Vermilion Bridge.
Oct. 12. Monday-Left about daylight and continued Northward
to the junction of this road with that along the Boeuf to Alexandria,
instead of continuing ,to that place as had been anticipated we turned
down the bayou [Boeuf] toward Washington, still hearing of the
continued advance of the enemy and also of the near proximity of
Walker's Div.97 and Mouton's Brig.9s Passed through Cheneyville
s5The bridge was on Bayou Cocodrie, the boundary between Evangeline Parish
on the south and Rapides Parish to the north.
96Captain B. W. Brown was assistant quartermaster of the battalion.
TWalker's Texas Infantry Division was commanded by Major General John G.
Walker, a native of Missouri. He was a veteran of the Mexican War and of the
regular United States Army. General Walker had commanded a division in the
Army of Northern Virginia and distinguished himself at the capture of Harper's
Ferry and subsequently at the battle of Sharpsburg in 1862, after which he was
transferred to the ITans-Mississippi. He was not the Lieutenant Colonel John G.
Walker in Terry's Texas Rangers, as some writers have stated. Walker's division
had three brigades. The first, commanded by Brigadier General J. M. Hawes,
consisted of the 2ath Texas Infantry (Colonel Overton Young), 18th Texas Infantry
(Colonel W. H. King), 13th Texas Cavalry, dismounted (Lieutenant Colonel An-
derson F. Crawford), 22nd Texas Infantry (Colonel Richard B. Hubbard), and
Haldeman's Battery (Captain Horace Haldeman). The second brigade, commanded
by Colonel Horace Randal, was made up of the 28th Texas Cavalry, dismounted
(Colonel Eli H. Baxter), Iith Texas Infantry (Colonel Oran M. Roberts), 14th
Texas Infantry (Colonel Edward Clark), 6th Texas Cavalry Battalion, dismounted
(Major Robert S. Gould), and Daniel's Battery (Captain James M. Daniel).
The third brigade, temporarily commanded by Colonel George Flournoy, con-
sisted of the 16th Texas Cavalry, dismounted (Lieutenant Colonel Edwin P.
Gregg), 17th Texas Infantry (Colonel R. T. P. Allen), 19th Texas Infantry
(Colonel Richard Waterhouse), and Edgar's Battery (Captain William M. Edgar).
[J. P. Blessington], The Campaigns of Walker's Texas Division (New York, 1875),
46-59, 72; Lester N. Fitzhugh (comp.), Texas Batteries, Battalions, Regiments,
Commanders and Field Oficers, Confederate States Army, z86z-x865 (Midlothian,
1959) . "Seconded by good brigade and regimental officers, he [General Walker] had
thoroughly disciplined his men, and made them in every sense soldiers; and their
efficiency in action was soon established." Taylor, Destruction and Reconstruction,
150.
9sMouton's brigade was under the command of Colonel Henry Gray. The416
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