James D. Porter, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 7.1, Tennessee
Clement Anselm Evans, Ed.

[216] and Forty-fourth, Capt. Jonathan E. Spencer, and the Sixty-third, Capt. A. A. Blair. After the fall of Lieut.. Gen. A. P. Hill on April 2, 1865, his corps was attached to Longstreet's, with which McComb's brigade, 480 strong, was surrendered at Appomattox Court House, on the 9th of April, 1865.

McComb's brigade was constantly engaged during the last months of the war, and sustained many unreported losses; in the last battle, on the 2d of April, when General Lee's lines were broken on the right, the Tennesseeans bore an honorable and conspicuous part. In trying to reach Heth's division, which was supporting Pickett on the right, that noble gentleman and soldier, A. P. Hill, received his death-wound, and with him fell many sons of Tennessee who had constituted a part of the Light Division from its organization.

That part of McComb's brigade which formerly constituted Hatton's, afterward Archer's brigade, had served with the army of Northern Virginia from Seven Pines to Appomattox. That part of it which formerly constituted Bushrod Johnson's brigade was distinguished in all the great battles of the Southwest up to and including Chickamauga, where it won great honor; and from Drewry's Bluff to the 9th of April, 1865, it maintained its great reputation. Every battlefield of the South is identified with the names of the two brigades, and no history can be written that does not accord to them honor and praise for enterprise, for powers of endurance, for courage and constancy, and for obedience to orders. The survivors were few when the end came; their comrades slept wherever brave men had fought and died; to the State of Tennessee they will be ever living men of heroic memory.

. . . . Never shall the land forget
     How gushed the life-blood of her brave—
Gushed, warm with hope and courage yet,
     Upon the soil they sought to save.