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BOOKS: The Capture of Jefferson Davis

the day before, I remembered that my orders were to charge if I saw anything that looked suspicious, and we were all in favor of a charge, but before I had scarcely spoken the words, they began firing, and at the second volley, Clark Seeley and myself were badly wounded. My honest opinion is there was no one to blame but Colonel Pritchard. I could have twisted his old neck for him when I found it out. I talked with the lieutenant in charge of the pickets, and he said Colonel Pritchard told him to look out, there were one hundred and sixty Texas rangers camped out on the road one and a half miles. He did not tell me that there were Union soldiers coming on that road, which he, Colonel Pritchard, knew, but the lieutenant did not. The above are the facts, just as I saw them.

Gus. W. Sykes.

Subscribed and sworn to before me, this 19th of March, 1898.

N. B. Wheeler,

Justice of the Peace.

BOOKS: The Capture Of Jefferson Davis

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