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NO. Y. SEPTEMBER, 1S6T. YOL. Ill
STOVALL’S BRIGADE AT JACIiSOX, MISSISSIPPI, JULY 12TH, 1363.
Editor oe “The Land we Love:”
In the issue of your interesting
periodical, for June, we have read
with much pleasure, an article
entitled, “ Sketch of General 35.
II. Helm.” lu correcting ono
misapprehension of the author,
we beg that our motives may not
he misconstrued.
I would not wittingly abate one
jot from (he well-earned trophies
which illustrate the career of
General Helm. Bi\t his brow is
too rich with laurels for it to
assume a modest garland, which
rightfully belongs to one of his
brothers-in-arms.
Speaking of General Johnston’s
operations around Jackson, Miss¬
issippi, in July 1S63, the article
on page 16G proceeds:
II On Sunday the 12th of July,
au attack was made upon Helm’s
line, the heat was intense, the
Confederates were exhausted by
their long march, and seemingly
unfit for the unequal contest, but
the dauntless spirits of brave Ken¬
tuckians never quailed, and now
led by their valiant commander,
they repulsed the enemy with a
vol.
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loss of two hundred men, and
three stands of colors.”
The attack referred to was made
by live regiments of the enemy,
not upon Helm’s, but upon the
line of Brigadier General M. A.
Stovall, commanding a brigade
composed of the 1st, 3rd and 4th
Florida, 60th North Carolina and
47th Georgia regiments, and its
object was the capture of Cobb's
battery, which was then reporting
to General Stovall, and which his
brigade was then supporting. —
General Helm’s brigade was in
line to the left of Stovall, ami his
gallant Kentuckians, were unable
to do more than look on and
cheer— which they did vociferous¬
ly— at the repulse of the enemy,
with a loss of some two hundred
killed, two hundred and fifty
captured, and five stands of colors.
Four of these stands of colors,
taken by the 1st, 3rd and 4th
Florida, and 47th Georgia regi¬
ments, together with Cobb and
Slocumb’s artillery, were in the
name of these commands, pre¬
sented by General Stovall through
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