Participant in Battle of Fayetteville, N. C.
By Natt Holman, LaGrange, Tex.

Confederate Veteran
Volume, Number 11, Page 544
November 1911

In the July VETERAN Comrade J. W. Du Bose asks what troops made the fight at Fayetteville, N. C., on the morning of March 10, 1865. I was one of the mixers in that scrimmage as a member of the 8th Texas Cavalry, generally known in the army as the "Terry Texas Rangers," The brigade was composed of the 3d Arkansas, 4th Tennessee, 8th and 11th Texas, and commanded by the brave and gallant Gen. Tom Harrison, formerly colonel of the 8th Texas.

We had been in the saddle all the day before and most of the night, and about night General Wheeler called for four men from my regiment to go on foot, as horseback was considered too risky, to spy out the situation of the enemy, telling the volunteers to meet him at a designated place. The command was then ordered to close in quietly on Kilpatrick's camp and wait the return of the scouts that had been sent forward. After several hours, the men returned, riding bareback, and each had a led horse that he confiscated for his trouble. The Terry Texas boys had much aversion to walking.

They reported the condition to their commander as they viewed it in darkness. Everything was put in order for the charge to be made at daylight, which was done. We took the Yanks by complete surprise, capturing Kilpatrick's headquarters and his spotted Arabian (stud) horse, which was turned over to General Wheeler, who rode him off and on until the close of the war. Yes, "Little Joe," as his men called him, made the fight on that memorable day with men from Harrison's, Dibrell's, and Ashby's Cavalry.

This is the recollection of a private forty six years after the events transpired. Comrade Bennett, of Jasper, Tenn., in the September VETERAN is mistaken as to General Garrison's being wounded in that fight. He was severely wounded later in the battle of Bentonville, N. C., as also our Colonel Cook and Major Jarman were both badly wounded.