Reminiscences of the Boys in Gray, 1861-1865 Page: 264
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264 Reminiscences of the Boys in Gray, 18611865.
HENRY CLAY GHENT, Belton, Texas.-Born Dec. 6, 1831, near
Lawrence Court House, N. C. Enlisted in the Confederate Army in the
spring of 1861 in Alabama, as First Lieutenant in Company D, Thirteenth
Alabama Infantry, Archer's Brigade; James Akins first Captain and B.
O. Try first Colonel. In 1861 was appointed Assistant Surgeon of the
regiment on account of disability caused from a severe attack of pneumonia
in 1862; resigned while at Yorktown. Was never wounded. Surrendered
with the Army of Northern Virginia at Appomattox Court House,
on April 9, 1865. Was promoted from First Lieutenant to Assistant Surgeon,
and from the latter to Surgeon. Was in the battles of Gaines' Mill
Drewry's Bluff, Five Forks and Appomattox. The Southern people knew
that they were right.
W. C. GIBBS, Kuntze, Texas.-Born July 27, 1827, near Aberdeen,
Miss. Enlisted in the Confederate Army on Nov. 6, 1861, at Sabine Pass;
Texas, with rank of First Sergeant in Company C, Liken's Battalion. My
first Captain was J. S. Irwin and J. B. Liken was Major.of the battalion.
In 1862 at the reorganization of the forces I was elected Captain and
A. W. Spaight was elected Colonel. We were ordered to Louisiana and
served in Dick Taylor's Division. I was neither wounded nor captured.
Was in the battles of Sabine Pass, at the capture of the "Morning Light"
and Velocity, capture of Berwick City, Fordoche, and the other battles of
the campaign of 1863 and '64.
When our company was organized our destination was Tennessee, but
we were not allowed to leave the State, so we went to Sabine Pass and
joined Major J. B. Liken's Battalion. We remained there until the spring
of 1863. Then we were ordered to Galveston, and after the battles of
Galveston and Sabine Pass we were ordered to Louisiana and attached to
Polignac's Division, where we served till the spring of 1864. Our battalion
fired the last hostile gun of that State campaign at Calcasieu, where
we captured two Federal gunboats. I remained here with my company
till September of that year, when I was ordered to Sabine Pass, Texas,
and put in command of Fort Griffin. At this juncture Spaight's and
Griffin's Battalions were consolidated and became Spaight's Regiment and
was ordered to Galveston, and I, with my company, was placed in command
of the heavy artillery at Bolivar's Point, where we remained till
the end of the war.
With all our long hard marching and suffering from thirst under
burning suns, our rations a small bit of lean beef and yellow corn bread,
facing the winter's chilly blast, sleeping on the cold wet ground without
tents, our lonely, dark watches on pickets, without medicine in sickness and
all other privations we had to suffer, leaving out of account the bloody
battles we fought, the groans and shrieks of the wounded and dying, I
never heard one of the boys murmur. They continued firm in their patriotism
for "Dixie Land," and when they saw that our cause was lost
they returned to their wasted homes and dear ones, determined to restore
them to that happy state in which they left them.
I cannot believe that such love of country and its cause was ever before
manifested.
SAMUEL GIBSON, Austin, Texas.-Born in Caddo Parish, La. Enlisted
in the early spring of 1861 at Victoria, Texas, as private in Company
C, Sixth Texas Infantry, Granbury's Brigade, Pat Cleburne's Division,
Hardee's Corps, Army of Tennessee. My first Captain was Bass and
first Colonel Garland. I was never wounded but had my clothes almost shot
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Yeary, Mamie, 1876-. Reminiscences of the Boys in Gray, 1861-1865, book, 1912; Dallas, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth29786/m1/287/?q=ghent: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.