COL. FERGUSONS POST-BATTLE REPORT ON AND AROUND DEER CREEK (NEAR VICKSBURG) PRAISED THE MEN HIGHLY: "THE SHIARPSHOOTERS EXHIBITED THAT RECKLESS DISREGARD FOR SHELL AND GRAPE WHICH MADE THE. FURIOUS CANNONADE OF THE YANKEES SEEM AN AMUSING DISPLAY OF PROTECINICS. NONE OF MY COMMAND WERE TOUCHED BY THEIR ARTILLERY, THROUGH SUBJECTED TO A CONSTANT FIRE FOR THREE DAYS. THE EXPENDITURE OF ALL KINDS OF MISSILES FROM A 13-1NCH SHELL TO A MINNIE BALL ON EVERY POINT WHERE IT WAS THOUGHT THEY MIGHT BE HID, SHOWED THE ESTIMATION THE ENEMY HAD OF THEM.
I REGRET TO HAVE TO REPORT PRIVATE SAMUEL DEVEREAU OF THE THIRD MISSISSIPPI VOLUNTEERS, WOUNDED BY MINIE BALL.
Source: Official Record, Chapter XXXVI, Part 1, page 467.
Operations in Mississippi, and West Tennessee.
"The Steel's Bayou Expedition"
I REGRET TO HAVE TO REPORT PRIVATE SAMUEL DEVEREAU OF THE THIRD MISSISSIPPI VOLUNTEERS, WOUNDED BY MINIE BALL.
Source: Official Record, Chapter XXXVI, Part 1, page 467.
Operations in Mississippi, and West Tennessee.
"The Steel's Bayou Expedition"
COL. FERGUSONS POST-BATTLE REPORT ON AND AROUND DEER CREEK (NEAR VICKSBURG) PRAISED THE MEN HIGHLY: "THE SHIARPSHOOTERS EXHIBITED THAT RECKLESS DISREGARD FOR SHELL AND GRAPE WHICH MADE THE. FURIOUS CANNONADE OF THE YANKEES SEEM AN AMUSING DISPLAY OF PROTECINICS. NONE OF MY COMMAND WERE TOUCHED BY THEIR ARTILLERY, THROUGH SUBJECTED TO A CONSTANT FIRE FOR THREE DAYS. THE EXPENDITURE OF ALL KINDS OF MISSILES FROM A 13-1NCH SHELL TO A MINNIE BALL ON EVERY POINT WHERE IT WAS THOUGHT THEY MIGHT BE HID, SHOWED THE ESTIMATION THE ENEMY HAD OF THEM.
I REGRET TO HAVE TO REPORT PRIVATE SAMUEL DEVEREAU OF THE THIRD MISSISSIPPI VOLUNTEERS, WOUNDED BY MINIE BALL.
Source: Official Record, Chapter XXXVI, Part 1, page 467.
Operations in Mississippi, and West Tennessee.
"The Steel's Bayou Expedition"
I REGRET TO HAVE TO REPORT PRIVATE SAMUEL DEVEREAU OF THE THIRD MISSISSIPPI VOLUNTEERS, WOUNDED BY MINIE BALL.
Source: Official Record, Chapter XXXVI, Part 1, page 467.
Operations in Mississippi, and West Tennessee.
"The Steel's Bayou Expedition"
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