Hood's Texas Brigade: Its Marches, Its Battles, Its Achievments

Description: Hood's Texas Brigade: Its Marches; Its Battles; Its Achievements By J. B. Polley; 1988, reprint; published by Morningside Bookshop, Dayton, OH.; 357pp. in very good condition (no dust-jacket issued.) Hood’s Texas Brigade was made up of the 1st, 4th, and 5th Regiments of Texas Infantry and brigaded at one time or another with the 18th Georgia (which proudly called itself the “3rd Texas”), Reilly’s North Carolina Battery, Hampton’s South Carolina Legion, and the 3rd Arkansas. The Lone Star troops compiled a record equaled by few, if any, American military units. It was under its second and most renowned commander, Brigadier General John Bell Hood, that the brigade first won fame. Beginning with the battle of Gaines Mill, June 27, 1862, Hood led the brigade into a series of engagements that won for it a reputation unmatched in Civil War annals. Its forte, instilled by Hood, was the attack – take the offensive, charge the enemy, drive him back, break his lines, and pursue. At Gaines Mill, Second Manassas, Sharpsburg, Gettysburg, Chickamauga, and the Wilderness, Hood’s Texas Brigade was thrown at the enemy. Douglas Southall Freeman, historian of the Army of Northern Virginia, called the Texas Brigade, “perhaps the most renowned of all” the brigades in Lee’s army. The brigade paid a high price for the reputation it earned. About 5,300 men served in the brigade throughout the war; of this number 617 surrendered at Appomattox. Contains muster rolls of the 1st, 4th, and 5th Texas Regiments; and the soldiers paroled at Appomattox. Even this reprint has been long out-of-print!

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Location: Columbia, South Carolina

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