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The Texans Leave for War

WHEN HE VISITED Texas in 1863, Englishman Sir
Arthur James Lyon Fremantle commented: "At the
outbreak of the war it was found very difficult to raise
infantry in Texas, as no Texan walks a yard if he can
help it. Many mounted regiments were therefore organ-
ized, and afterwards dismounted." The Texans were
probably wise in their prejudice against infantry service;
perhaps they knew the hardships that would await them
on a long march to Virginia. But they were no less patri-
otic, no less eager to join the Southern armies, than troops
in other states.

Out of Texas came the famous Hood's Texas Brigade.
Chaplain of Hood's Texans was Nicholas A. Davis, a
devout Presbyterian and a determined advocate of the
glory of his soldier charges. In 1863 he had printed in
Richmond a small volume that was one of the first of
Confederate regimental histories. In this little book he
recounts the difficulties which beset the Texans on their
march to the Virginian theater of war, experiences in
strong contrast to the journey of Henry Hotze's Cadets
from Mobile to Norfolk.

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Publication Information: Book Title: The Confederate Reader. Contributors: Richard B. Harwell - editor. Publisher: Longmans Green. Place of Publication: New York. Publication Year: 1957. Page Number: 44.
    
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