The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1889-07-12
Gallant General Greene.

most successful and gallant com
manders of the civil war. Hewas
a soldier at the battle of San ia
cinto, afterward engaged in the
ranging service under the repub-
lie and was captain at the taking
of Monterey in the Mexican war.
While commanding company in
pursuit of some Comanche Indians,
he had surrounded them with short
arms, Colts repeaters. The men
were on foot, but he had ridden
INFO the Ticket on his pony.
About the close of the fight
an Indian started up from
under bunch of pears and jump
ed astride of his horse behind him.
The Indian caught him around his
arms and commenced talking to
him very fast in a language he did
not understand. He was more
alarmed than he ever was in his
life, and could as he imagined feel
the fatal knife entering between
his ribs every moment. He turn
ed his pistol so as to shoot behind
him, on first one side and then the
other, and the Indian would take
hold of it and turn away the muz-
zle. At last, making a desperate
effort to turn in his saddle to shoot
with certainty, his eye caught
sight of the breast of a woman,
and of course he desisted. She
was a handsome Indian girl, about
Is years of age, that had taken
this means of saving her life. He
carried her behind him into camp,
turned her over TO some friendly
Lipan Indians that were in COM
pany with them. Then the gallant
young chief Flacco took her for a
wife. About year afterw7rd she
made her escape to the Conan
ches.
AT the commencement of the
Nar Gen. Greene commanded a
regiment afterwards brigade and
the last year of the war he was a
Major General in command of the
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sippi department, and not only
did he serve Texas well in her
early history, but it was mainly
his successful daring dash as COM
mander that prevented the federal
forces from over-running this state
and laying waste the country as
they did the lower portion Of Lou
isiana (which state remembers
him and his men with gratitude)
and the states east of the Missis-
sipi river. He possesses the ut
most confidence of his old brigade
and others who knew him we'll,
and though he planned and fought
a large number of battles, almost
invariably at great odds, he never
lost a fight until just before the
close of hostilities and then he
lost his life. When Tom Greene,
as he was Familiarity called, led
the way there was no place, how
ever desperate, that his old bri-
gade to a man would not go with a
whoop and will. It was his pow
erful viii power that forced the
battle of Mansfield, although he
was third In command. Gen. Dick
Taylor, his senior, on the field,
and General Kirby Smith at a dis
tance and it was mainly Gen.
Green's strategy and skill that
rendered the days work at Mans
field memorable as one of the de
cisive victories of the war over the
invading forces. Kirby Smith
was in command of the transmits
lsippi DEPARTMENT and It was gener-
ally understood that his 2 or re
were not to fight, and that Dick
Taylor hesitated, but the poorly
fed, over marched confederates
were tired retreating, eager to
fight and they were placed into po-
sition against odds of some three
to one, and the most important
battle of what is known as Banks
Red river campaign was fought.
Before the opposite forces could
be concentrated from Texas, Mis-
souri, and Arkansas, Gen A. P.
Banks reached Natchitoches, La,
with his finely equipped army of
sixty thousand men, and their
baggage declaring that his onward
movements to the glorious west,
across the beautiful prairies.
would soon be characterized by
the arrival of himself and his army
at the capitol of Texas. A few
days afterward the naughty gener-
al returned much crestfallen and
in great disorder to the beautiful
little city that had Witnessed his
pompous departure and not know
ing the cause of the hasty return
it was the immediate inquiry of