Excerpt from The Civil War Letters of David R. Garrett, Detailing the Adventures of the 6th Texas Cavalry 1861-1865: With Annotations and Background MaterialVictor M. Rose, the unofficial historian of Ross's Texas Brigade, declared in his history of the brigade writ ten at Victoria in 1880, that the Sixth deserves the high est eulogium that can be pronounced in its praise. Com posed, like other regiments that early left the State, of the very best young men in the country, it could be relied upon to accomplish any feat of daring within the prowess of human bravery and daring.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.