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Title: Sponsor souvenir album : history & reunion (1895)
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: United Confederate Veterans
Subjects: United Confederate Veterans -- Anniversaries, etc United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Anniversaries, etc.
Publisher: (Columbus, Ohio : Terry Engraving Co., 1895.)
Contributing Library: Houston Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: LYRASIS Members and Sloan Foundation

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and when captured at FortDonelson was taken to Camp Morton, at Indianapolis, Ind., CampChase, at Columbus, Ohio, and was confined in prison on JohnsonsIsland nearly one year. At Fort Donelson he carried to Colonel (afterwards general) Forrestthe first order he ever received to move forward into regular battle. He was the hero of some of the most thrilling and romantic episodesof the war, notably at Fort Donelson, Coffeeville and near Sharon, Miss.,and his name is specially and repeatedly mentioned for gallantry in battlein the official records of the rebellion, and the many orders there signedby him show the conspicuous and important part he acted in the greatcivil war at Belmont, Fort Donelson, Corinth, Shermans Meridian Cam-paign, Holly Springs, Coffeeville, Franklin, Spring Hill, Columbia,Canton, Yazoo City, Birdsongs Ferry, Mechanicsburg, Harrisburg,Thompson Station, Term., Livingston, Miss., Jackson, Miss., aroundYicksburg, Colemans Cross Roads, and in nearly all of General W. H.
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82 SPONSOR SOUVENIR ALBUM. Jacksons battles, engagements, skirmishes, campaigns and raids, nearlya hundred in all, being almost daily engaged from the 6th of February,1863, to March 20, 1864. He resigned from the staff on account of injuryto his eyesight from constant writing and was placed in command ofMoormans cavalry battalion, with rank of lieutenant colonel, which wasincreased to a regiment and finally surrendered with General DickTaylors forces. Just at the close of the war he married Miss Helen Shackleford,daughter of Chief Justice Thomas Shackelford, of Canton ,Miss. He served as sheriff of Madison county, Miss., for nearly threeyears, during the difficult period of reconstruction, and managed theoffice with great ability and success, satisfying all parties. He wasalso engaged in planting and merchandising at the same time. Hemoved to New Orleans in 1869, where he has been ever since. He conceived the idea and organized Camp No. 9, Veteran Con-federate States Cavalry Associati

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