Remembering Our Soldiers

Text from the Texas monument in Vicksburg, Mississippi

Texas remembers the valor and devotion of her sons who served at Vicksburg and in other theaters of the War Between the States. "For those men believed in something. They counted life a light thing to lay down in the faith they bore. They were terrible in battle. They were generous in victory. They rose up from defeat to fight again, and while they lived they were formidable... the heritage they left, of valor and devotion, is treasured by a united country."
-John W. Thomason, Jr.

The Sealing of the Breach

At this location the lines of the Confederacy were broken and the Texans were called in to seal the breach. They not only accomplished their mission but captured a number of the enemy and seized their standards.

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Text from the Texas monument at the Chickamauga Battlefield, Georgia

Texas remembers the valor and devotion of her sons who served at Chickamauga

September 19-20, 1863

Here in the great Confederate breakthrough Texans vied with each other to prove themselves worthy of the fame won by their brothers on other fields.