CONFEDERATE BIOGRAPHY:  Battle of Chustenallah

*********************************************************** 
Copyright.  All rights reserved.
http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm

Submitted by Mary Love Berryman - marylove@tyler.net
6 June 2002 
*********************************************************** 
TEXANS WHO WORE THE GRAY by Sid S. Johnson, pages 307-308 

CHUSTENALLAH.

The battle of Chustenallah was fought early in the war. I believe 
during the Christmas Holidays in 1861. The Con. federates fought the 
Indians who were hostile to the Confed­eracy.  It was a complete 
victory for the Confederates. Col. A. W. Sparks in his "Recollections 
of the Great War" says of Maj. Geo. W. Chilton, Maj. Binson and others:

Major G. W. Chilton, of the Third Texas Cavalry, while acting with 
conspicuous gallantry, was wounded by a rifle ball, slightly, in the 
head; but, disregarding which, he re­mained at his post until the last 
gun was fired.  Major M. J. Brinson of the Ninth Texas Cavalry, bore 
himself, through­out the engagement, with marked gallantry; and, by his 
fearless demeanor, contributed no little to the final result. The 
author's friend, Harry Bell, of Company A, Third Texas Cavalry, was 
severely though not mortally, wounded by a frightful bullet hole in 
the right breast.