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James D. Porter, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 7.1, Tennessee (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 1 1 Browse Search
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James D. Porter, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 7.1, Tennessee (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 10: (search)
rvived the war and was rewarded by his countrymen with distinguished and well-earned honors. The First Tennessee, Lieut.-Col. James H. Lewis; the Second, Lieut.-Col. John H. Kuhn; the Fifth, Col. George W. McKenzie, and the Ninth battalion, Maj. James H. Akin, constituted the brigade commanded by the gallant Col. Henry M. Ashby. The Fourth and Eighth were commanded by Col. Baxter Smith, and brigaded with the Eighth Texas. Among our losses, Major-General Bate reported the fall of Maj. W. H. Wilkinson, and refers to him as the young, gallant and lamented commander of Tyler's brigade. He fell leading his brigade in a memorable and final charge upon the enemy's line. In Palmer's brigade, Col. R. M. Saffell and Lieut.-Col. A. F. Boggess, Twenty-sixth regiment, were killed. Colonel Saffell volunteered with Ashby's cavalry when the enemy attempted to turn our left, on the 21st, and was killed, gallantly leading a successful charge. Lieutenant-Colonel Boggess, said General Palmer, fe