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woods and passed over it, the horse of Colonel Tucker, of the Forty-first Mississippi Regiment, was killed, and he cut the harness which attached a mule to a Federal battery, which had been abandoned, and mounted the mule. The Forty-first Mississippi Regiment was then a part of General Patton Anderson's Brigade. Colonel Tucker was soon after promoted to be brigadier-general. I am sure it was a few minutes after Colonel Tucker mounted this mule when General Lytle was killed, and while we were charging the enemy. My attention was called by some one to his body, and I remember feeling a pang of regret at the fall of so gallant an offi- cer, although an enemy. A great length of time has elapsed, but I think there can be no doubt of the correctness of the foregoing; but of course I lay no claim to an infallible memory of events, particu- larly when they transpired during the progress of a great battle, and while on a tiresome charge, with all the attendant excitement.

I think Major West must have fallen into the error by reason of the fact that Deas' Brigade commenced the charge, supported by us, overlooking the fact that when General Lytle was killed we had taken the lead as charging brigade, and General Deas' Brigade had become our support.

I observe another unintentional oversight in Major West's state- ment. In the battle of Chickamauga, Brigadier-General Patton An- derson commanded his own brigade, in Hindman's Division, and did not command General Deas' Brigade. Very truly yours,

S. S. CALHOON.

[From the Farmville (Va j Journal November 29, 1895.]

RANDOLPH GUARD.

BRIEF HISTORY OF THE COMPANY.

fluster-Roll of the Company as it left Farmville, June 11, 1861.

The following is a list of the officers and men of the Randolph Guard, commanded by Captain N. Cobb, Forty-fourth Virginia Regiment. The company was mustered into service at Richmond, Va., June 12, 1861, and numbered seventy-three men rank and file.