CONFEDERATE BIOGRAPHY: A RIGHTEOUS TRIBUTE - Smith County, TX 

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TEXANS WHO WORE THE GRAY by Sid S. Johnson

A RIGHTEOUS TRIBUTE - (VICTOR M. ROSE)

Victor M. Rose, in the history of Ross' Texas Brigade, pays the 
following tribute to Maj. James A. J. Barker, of the 3rd Texas 
Cavalry, who fell in the carge made by his regiment on the Federal 
fources just before the evacuation of Corinth, by Gen. Beauregard: 
"Many lamented on that day, but none more than that prince of 
nature's noblemen, the talented and chivalric Maj. James A. J. 
Barker, the pride of his regiment.  He fell while gallantly 
cheering his men on to victory, as he had done on many a well 
fought field.  His gallantry and general superiority was the 
theme of every tongue that knew him.  His name was inseparably 
with our ideas of valor, magnanimity, truth, candor and fidelity.  
The Major had a presentment of evil, and so informed his intimate 
friends on the morning of the battle.  The dying hero fell in the 
arms of John Myers and Lem Reed, who bore his inanimate form from 
the field of his death and his glory."