Identifier: 02995319.3155.emory.edu
Title: A cavalryman's reminiscences of the Civil War (electronic resource)
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Carter, Howell
Subjects: Carter, Howell Confederate States of America. Army. Louisiana Cavalry Regiment, 1st
Publisher: New Orleans : American Print. Co.
Contributing Library: Emory University, Robert W. Woodruff Library
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hem; it was what the hoys called a pretty little fight.We lost two killed and three wounded. Captured aMajor and seven privates, but do not know their lossin killed and wounded, though the next day the citi-zens reported thirty or thirty-five. The brigade nowcomnieneel a Southward march. Capt. ( uarrett s com-pany was the rear guard and when within about amile of Frankfort the enemy came upon him and adesperate cavalry struggle ensued. This splendid offi-cer fell, fearfully wounded almost in sight of his homeand loved ones. The writer never saw or heard ofhim afterward, but he certainly hopes that he recov-ered and is still living and prospering. ( ompanies C and F with others of the brigade(which cannot be recalled) were stationed at thebridge, and held the enemy in check for quite a while,and many valiant Federals who started across neverreached the Frankfort side. When the command wasforced to retreat and started up the hill, Milton Wil-liams of Company E, knowing that some of Mor-
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H. MILTON WILLIAMS OF THE CIVIL WAR. 49 gans men were in town and were claiming that theywould be the last Confederate soldiers to leave Frank-fort, and, seeing them coming up the hill claimingthat they had carried out their intentions, deliberatelywheeled his horse and galloped back, and as the enemydrove him up thehill just in front of them, he seemedto bear a charmed life, for of the hundreds of bulletsthat whistled around his head, not one touched him.Then he rode up to the Morgan scouts and said :Young gentlemen don t forget one thing, Scott s cav-alry were the first Confederate soldiers to enter Frank-fort and the last to leave it. The boys gave Morgansmen a good old fashioned laugh, it was with sadhearts the Louisiana troops bade farewell to old Frank -fort, but they never dreamed it was their last good-bye as Confederate soldiers. The night was a darkand dreary one, just such a night to commit the hor-rible deed that makes me shiver even now when 1think of it after the lapse o

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