Slavery and four years of war

by Joseph Warren Keifer

(17) War Records, vol. xvi., Part I., p. 978.

(18) War Records, vol. xvi., Part I., pp. 966, 970.

(19) Battles and Leaders, vol. iii., pp. 603-42.

(20) While the army was massed at Dripping Springs, a beef-ox escaped from a herd about midnight, and in wild frenzy rushed back and forth through the army, jumping on and running over the bivouacked sleeping soldiers, seriously injuring many, until a large part of the army was alarmed and called up. He was finally surrounded and bayoneted to death.

(21) Atlas, War Records, Part V., plate 24.

(22) War Records, vol. xvi., Part I., pp. 862-8.

(23) War Records, vol. xvi., Part I., p. 862-8.

(24) Ibid., Part II., p. 564.

(25) Ibid., pp. 539, 554-5, 560.

(26) War Records, vol. xvi., Part II., pp. 554-5, 560.