Certified Copies of Letters on the Sherman Flag by Edward Miles and Carrie Sherman Menard
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(2)
I was then under 20 years old unshaven [sic] of
light & delicate build[,] say 5 feet 5 in.[,] black hair,
Gray eyes. A Photographer in Galveston 1879, took
a good many of our pictures[.] I was in citizens dress,
a few of us had at that time the U.S. over-coat[.]
We were encamped along the South bank of (1)
the Buffalo Bayou in a grove of timber, opposite
Old River Mouth and about 400 yards above its junc-
tion with the San Jacinto on the opposite side. The
timber here was at the upper end of our line only
a few feet wide, bluff bank on the river and very
near the main road widening to about 400 yards ris-
ing gradually to the edge of the prairie (it was at
this point we buried our dead & near this also we
had the Mexican Prisoners who were the first to
identify Santa Anna as he was brought into Gen 1
Houston' Camp on the 22d April
The sun shone on us from the right side
in our rear
[(1) The bayou at the camp ground runs nearly north
hence they were on the South East]
The enemy were encamped in a small grove
very near a lake in their rear was also a marsh- a
prairie in front[.] [T]he ground in their front being
a little higher & covered with high serge grass and
some hog wallow[.] This lake of water connected with
the San Jacinto Bay & widening still to an arm of the
Galveston and between the Lake and the enemy's camp
was a deep grove of timber.
We advanced in a course East of South to
the attack taking advantage of the ground-forming
in line of battle out of reach of the enemy our
company acting as skirmishers[.] [W]hen about 70 yards
we delivered the fi[r]st fire and continued to advance-
The Enemy's shots passed over us like hail-This was
only however of short duration[.] [H]e became panic strick-
en leaving many of his dead and wounded on the ground-
in this boggy marsh in his rear the slaughter was great
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