Fannin County, Texas - Military - Rev. Charles E. Lamb Reminiscences 1900 Copyright © 2005 by Bunny Freeman. This copy contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives. ************************************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ************************************************************************ Confederate Veteran Magazine Vol. 8 No. 7 July 1900 Comrade Lamb's Reminiscences Rev. Charles E. Lamb, Dodd City, Tex.: "I entered the Confederate service May 1, 1861, in Company G, Thirteenth Louisiana Regiment, R. L. Gibson, colonel. I was wounded at Farmington, near Corinth, in May 1862; was transferred to Fuller's Louisiana Battery, and captured on Ref River in the summer of 1863; paroled and exchanged at Demopolis, Ala.; commissioned second lieutenant in a regiment from the Trans-Mississippi Department; resigned and served until the close of the war as first duty sergeant of Holmes's Louisiana Battery. Late in the winter of 1865 we were manning Battery No. 8, Shell Road, Mobile, with the Federal fleet at anchor about nine miles down the bay, when I was sent on an expedition commanded by Capt. Holmes to the Mississippi River. This expedition was under orders of Gen. Maury, and composed of picked men and officers, all from the C. S. Navy except Capt. Holmes and me. It turned out to be a fruitless attempt to regain and hold a part of the river long enough to cross men for Johnston's army. We lost many good men, among them Lieut. Elwood McDermott, as brave and noble a soul as ever died in battle. He was a past midshipman (or ensign, as they call the grade now) at the commencement of the war. He had resigned from the U. S. Navy, come South, and was lieutenant on the C. S. ironclad Tennessee at the fight in Mobile Bay. I should be delighted to hear from any of his family or friends, or any of my old comrades."