A Texas Brigade Private Recalls the Battle of Chickamauga
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15m
Valerius Cincinnatus “Val” Giles (1842–1915), of the 4th Texas Infantry, recalled the hard fighting he and his regiment endured at the Battle of Chickamauga, which he observed "was the West against the South, about equally divided on both sides, and they fought it out right there." Here's his remembrance.
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