CONFEDERATE BIOGRAPHY: A GOOD SHOWING ***************************************************************** Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm Submitted by James H. Douglas JimRedWing@aol.com 14 October 2001 ***************************************************************** TEXANS WHO WORE THE GRAY by Sid S. Johnson, pg.387. Col. A. W. Sparks in his "Recollections of the Great War" gives a few facts in his peculiar style of what Ross' Texas Brigade did in the Georgia campaign under Gen. Joseph E. Johnston. He says this in his interesting narrative of that most remarkable campaign: "Our next encampment of note was near Rome, at which place we met the enemy and had a severe fight, the 3rd and 9th Texas suffering most. I think we lost about 150 men in killed and wounded, and as we were so far from home our ranks were not refilled and our losses told in the fighting numbers of our brigade from this to the end of the war. Here we held the field and encamped for several days, the enemy giving us but light skirmishes. This I think, was March 7th, 1864, and was commencement of our Georgia campaign, which I think, was 112 days long, as I recollect that Gen. L. Sul Ross, I think about the battle of Jonesboro, in one of his orders read to us of the service in that state which was that we had been in the state of Georgia 112 days and during that time had fought 108 pitch battles and had captured 3000 prisoners, 4000 stand of arms, 8 pieces of artillery, and 12 stand of colors, and on entering the state we mustered something over 1,700 men, and at the date on which the order was read we had something over 700 men rank on file. This is from memory, but I believe that many of our comrades will recall in mind the order and I think it is approximately correct, and hope that these may call forth a copy of the original order."