CONFEDERATE BIOGRAPHY:  Waul's Texas Legion

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Submitted by Mary Love Berryman - marylove@tyler.net
8 June 2002 
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TEXANS WHO WORE THE GRAY by Sid S. Johnson 

WAUL'S TEXAS LEGION.

"Waul's legion served with Gen. S. D. Lee's brigade, under Gen. C. L. 
Stevenson, and made a glorious record. On May 22nd they performed a 
feat which both generals de­clared was as gallant as any of the war.  
The enemy had taken an angle of the works, but, said Lee, 'the angle 
was finally assaulted and carried by a gallant band of Waul's Texans, 
under command of the intrepid Lieut. -Col. E. W. Pettus, 20th Alabama.  
This brave officer, assisted by Maj. 0. Steele and Capt. L. D. Bradley, 
of the legion, and the he­roic Texans, captured the colors of the 
enemy and about 50 prisoners, including a lieutenant-colonel.'