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one comrade captured 3 Feds within 400 yards of two of their camps
at Morganza on the trip.
Sept. 13 Our pickets on the other side driven in--all bustle and
preparation for fight, wagons and sick sent to the rear, resulting in
an artillery duel on our right accompanied with lively sharp-shooting.
Nobody hurt on our side.
Sept. 14 Our pickets attacked the enemy on their own hook, 13
reported killed.
Sept. 16 Three Feds brought in who had been captured by our
pickets near mouth of Red R. from Gunboat Choctaw.
Sept. 17 Brigade officer of the day. The enemy reported advanc-
ing by our pickets on the other side of the "drink"-baggage, sick
and transportation moved to the rear as expeditiously as possible &
Brigade prepared for battle. Lt. Col. Spaight6e in comd. of left
wing & Maj. [Josephus S.] Irvine comdg. Batn. on extreme left of
Brigade-Co. E on the right. Nobody scared at first & result nobody
hurt, the enemy having kept out of sight & after approaching within
11 miles retired & camped 4 miles from us. Henry,62 who was
brought in very sick yesterday, suffered considerably by removal to
the rear and is not so well to do. Left in a house of Capt. [Walthall]
Burton's. A fight still considered imminent & every one except an
occasional white feather anxious for a brush with the foe. Cave
Johnson"8 was also too sick to remain on the field, being under the
influence of a severe chill and fever attended with nausea &c swim-
ming of the head at the time.
Sept. 18. Friday-All quiet save a continuance of the picket skirm-
ishes on the other side. A report that 18 Feds were captured yester-
day by our pickets-A fight still considered imminent & my impression
being that the object of the enemy is to keep our pickets driven
in to prevent their observation or interruption of their work on the
old road leading to our immediate front, & that so soon as that
work is completed, instead of being put to the necessity of silencing
Semmes' batterys4 on our right before attacking our left and center,
81Ashley W. Spaight was born in Alabama in 1821, and became a lawyer and
member of the Alabama legislature before coming to Liberty County, Texas, in
1860. After the war he was a member of the Constitutional Convention of 1866
and was commissioner of insurance, statistics, and history from 1881 to 1883. Subse-
quently, Spaight was a cotton merchant in Galveston, dying in 1911. A. W.
Spaight Papers (Archives, University of Texas Library); Galveston News, Decem-
ber 24, 1911.
"'Private George Henry Rowley of Company E was the brother-in-law of
Captain O'Brien.
e8A private in Company E from Beaumont.
"'Captain Oliver J. Semmes, son of the renowned Admiral Raphael Semmes,
C.S.N., had been captured at the battle of Franklin or Irish Bend on April 14,
1863, and was not with his battery in September, 1863. On his way to a Federal
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