Two Confederate Officers Remember Gettysburg (Gregory A. Coco) -GC archer As battles rage along the

As battles rage along the coasts of the Mediterranean

from a neglected hero who saved our nation's capital and went on to write one of his century's greatest novels

a Lee-centric study of what the man experienced on a daily basis

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during which it played a pivotal role in the critical battles of Chancellorsville and Gettysburg

Two Confederate Officers Remember Gettysburg (Gregory A. Coco) -GC archer As battles rage along theGreg Coco Colonel Robert Michael Powell (1826 1916) of the 5th Texas Infantry Regiment was born in Alabama but moved to Texas in 1849 to practice law. When the war broke out, he has commissioned a captain in Company D, 5th Texas Infantry, and was promoted to colonel and command of the regiment in November 1862. The 5th Texas, part of Jerome Robertsons Texas Brigade, played a prominent role on July 2, 1863, at Gettysburg, where the 37 year old Powell