My great, great grandfather was in the 1st Texas Infantry Company I and was killed that day. I have no idea where he is buried. Thank you for this documentary.
@crippledcrow23844 ай бұрын
I know you are proud of his service to Texas and to his country. Hoods Texas Brigade was always in the thick of it. Lee bragged on his Texans several times. God Bless the Texas Brigage.
@ronaldshepard9844 ай бұрын
. When Union troops broke through Southern lines in the Wilderness, GenLee sent His Texans into the fray, saying, " MY Texans always hold them. They will stand and fight all day."
@yisroelkatz-xj6pq4 ай бұрын
The Texians fought so far away from home!
@JonStallings4 ай бұрын
Great story
@jimmyanderson29884 ай бұрын
He was a Texan
@BullpenBoss4 ай бұрын
My ancestor was Sgt David Alva Barnett of Company B - 99th PA. He fought at Devils Den.
@johnwilliams45414 ай бұрын
I have read that some men that were meek turned into wild men when a battle was on. Showed no fear
@chicogrande55164 ай бұрын
Excellent story, Ron! Thank you for sharing.
@mattpiepenburg87694 ай бұрын
Well, there really is something about Texans…
@stephenshort51004 ай бұрын
Only 12% of Hood's Brigade survived to be present at Appomattox.
@SouthernStorm_614 ай бұрын
My G-G-Grandfather, Private John Melton Bowen served in Co. K, 5th Texas (Bloody Fifth) Infantry which was at Gettysburg that day as reported by the narrator of this story. Private Bowen survived the Civil War and died at the age of 91 in 1924, the year my father was born in Wilcox County, Georgia. My G-G-Grandfather was in a Georgia unit attached to the 5th Texas Infantry as were other Confederate soldiers from other southern states who were not native Texans. G.M., BT3, USN; HSC, USCG, (Ret.).
@tigerboy604 ай бұрын
My GGGrandfather enlisted in Dooly county Georgia. He was wounded at Petersburg, Va. and captured and sent to Hellmyra. I'm glad I wasn't around back then.
@SouthernStorm_614 ай бұрын
@@tigerboy60 Yeah, Elmira could compete with Andersonville in the case about terrible conditions.
@billlawrence18994 ай бұрын
I first heard about "Will" Barbee from Matt Atkinson when he was giving a tour of that end of the battlefield. Apparently, no one knows what became of Barbee after that, whether he survived or died. According to Matt, he stood up on that rock shouting compliments ( "compliments, Texas style ) at the Yankees on their end of the Triangle Field. What could possess a man to do what he did? Maybe he was drunk. Maybe he was crazy. Or maybe he just really liked that horse.
@Tarkett014 ай бұрын
Great stories ❤
@ClancyWoodard-yw6tg4 ай бұрын
The texas brigade suffered 597 casualties during this battle but that day the union army faced the fighting spirit of texas
@neilfraites57044 ай бұрын
I live in Dandridge, Tennessee
@scottystacker46604 ай бұрын
Thanks!
@donb71134 ай бұрын
I met a great grandson of a member of a Georgia brigand while I was at Devils Den recently. He told me that his great grandfather told him that to keep union soldiers from ransacking the gear and bodies of the dead, they put them between the large boulders. He said that many were possibly still there.
@lynntalafuse99354 ай бұрын
have y'all heard of the Texas boy who was sitting a bolder firing rifles loaded by the wounded bellow. It was said he got shot off that bolder 6 times and the last account of him was that he was laying on the ground crying because no one would put him back on the bolder.
@robertstewart69564 ай бұрын
👍🏻👍🏻❤
@user-tm8cx8ec8v4 ай бұрын
This did not happen in Devil' Den. It happened on the west side of Houck's ridge, belowf Triangular Field.