The
Online Archive of Terry's Texas Rangers
Sharing & preserving the history of the 8th Texas Cavalry Regiment, 1861-1865
The
Online Archive of Letters From Veterans
Confederate
Veteran
Volume 3, Number 1, Page 14
January 1895
J. T. Cartwright, of Denton, Texas, tells for the VETERAN readers some amusing
incidents, and heroic deeds by a Company of Scouts under J. C. S. Blackburn
[JKP Blackburn?]
of Kentucky, now an eminent member of the United States Senate, during operations
in the Mississippi Valley the latter part of the war.