Tag Archives: Secessionists

The 13th resumes command of the brigade

Posted on February 22, 2013 by Dick Stanley

Among the Confederates who were seriously wounded in the Cedar Creek battle was Major George Bruce Gerald, the brigade’s commander. Gerald, former commander of the brigade’s 18th Mississippi Regiment had replaced the wounded Gen. Humphreys as brigade commander after the … Continue reading →

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Billed for a lost weapon

Posted on February 14, 2013 by Dick Stanley

Further evidence of the 13th’s participation in the rout of General Early’s demoralized troops after the Battle of Cedar Creek was uncovered by independent historian Jess McLean. He found a notation on the records of Private Henry Francis Carr of … Continue reading →

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Replacements

Posted on February 5, 2011 by Dick Stanley

On August 4, 1862, the 13th enlisted thirty-eight replacements for their dead and wounded. The new men, most of them in the late teens and early twenties, enlisted for the war at Brookhaven, Mississippi, south of Jackson. A few of … Continue reading →

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