Letters From Veterans

Confederate Veteran
Volume 3, Number 10, Page 315
October 1895

A. L. Steele, of the Eighth Texas Cavalry, Houston: R. 1.
Cook, Second Arkansas Infantry, (Burton, Ark.,) states that Col. Terry, of the Texas Rangers (8th Texas Cavalry,) was killed at Munfordsville and not Woodsonville, Ky., as stated in your July issue. Comrade Cook gets his geography mixed Munfordsville is north of, and Woodsonville south of Green River. The engagement was south of the river and the Rangers, as a regiment, were never north of that river until Bragg's Kentucky campaign in the summer of 1862. Col. Terry was killed December 17, 1861, about 200 yards northwest from the Turnpike Bridge, over the excavation made for the Louisville & Nashville Railroad through the Gap at Rowlett's Knob about 1/4 of a mile north from the Railroad station of that name. The writer was present as a member of that regiment and knows that after the regiment (only eight companies present), had driven the enemy's infantry back through the fields 3/4 miles on to their reserves in the timber, the command was recalled to their original position by Gen. Hindman, and Col. Terry's remains were then within a few feet of where he fell when the charge was made, and were removed in an ambulance, furnished by Hindman's Arkansas Brigade of Infantry to Case City. thence by rail to Texas.