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urrartam CAPT. E. C. SAICtig
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eaS iune 9, -ew York City, Astoria came to u:Ain in Wt. Came to
1exagth 2044Ilio ::.Alveston, lived in Utntsville about a year, later went to
lolk*listed for ‘avil in :,.ay 1861, at Folk i;ounty. xpecteti to so
to flinforce ood.
jot an iaea to ta14e new Lexica, :trizonia, iievada,
Ltaholis Oelw the world how reat the Confederate nation was, sent us to
juLtaie* 14106,1Chere den. Canby defeated us and drove us back to Texas." I
Vina:44111w 001141/ one of the greatest centlemen uho ever lived.'
lildleate,900ro sent to Louisiana. There we fouzht and kept the Yankees
from giOdidalta00 Texas. ft
iltmeallietzxf oampany with commissary department at hempstead, Texae when
the whaise**
Men* ?learned home fram the war I found that the neighbors who had
promildialchiere I enlisted, that ky people would be cared for. John rartin 5r.,
a Proultomotndidoeu of Iesoow, Texas led the movement: Re told no, treury don't
you Ideferville you are .7,eine, we will see that your folks have everytAing tLey
need,, Ulm* loft 4, family only oat one or two sides'of bacon during the
entirS time, Whey nearly starved and their clothing was worse than rags.
n mow did et a pay day duri:v the war, the clothes I wore. I captured from
the chige 4110.9 the time that :ten Canby outfitted re when he captured me at
tianta Fee