CONFEDERATE BIOGRAPHY: AN INCIDENT - Franklin, TN

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TEXANS WHO WORE THE GRAY by Sid S. Johnson

AN INCIDENT

At the batle of Franklin, Tenn., and while Hood was storming the works, 
Ross' Texas Brigade was in a desperate conflict with the "Brownlow 
White Horse Cavalry" of the Federal army.  A writer describes this 
incident of heroic bravery" "In his desperate encounter with the 
"White Horse", Col. Jones of the 9th, ran his sword through a Union 
trooper, and broke it off at the hilt, the blade remaining in the 
body of his adversary.  No one was more conspicuous for daring 
bravery, in this engagement, than Lieut. W. J. Caven, of Co. A, 3rd 
Texas Cavalry.  Sergeant T. J. Cellum, in this engagement, slew in 
rough combat a Union officer, who refused to surrender, himself 
receiving three pistol shot wounds in the deadly duel."  Col. D. W. 
Jones died at Houston, Texas, after serving in the second 
constitutional convention after the war, and Col. A. W. Sparks, the 
author of "Recollections of the Great War," says, "where he lies 
buried in a neglected grave."  Lieut. (Major) W. J. Caven died in 
Dallas, Texas, July 1907.  Gen Ross shouted in the din of battle when 
the conflict was at the critical point, "Boys, if you don't run, they 
will," and Sparks says the Federals performed the running act.