First Hand Account - Texas 32nd Cavalry Regiment

Maj. L. Perot, Aid on Gen. Lombard’s staff, was born and reared at Campti, La. Left his home the day the secession ordnance was being voted upon for Texas, and joined Capt. Lem H. Williams’ company. Texas cavalry, organized for the purpose of operating with other Texas cavalry commands against Fort Wichita, in the Chickasaw Nation, held by the United States forces under command of Capt. Crittenden Emery, afterwards a noted United States general. Later he joined Bennett’s cavalry company, of Paris, Tex. He was at Pea Ridge with Ben McCullough. After the death of Gen. McCullough he rejoined his company next day at Elk Horn Tavern. From the latter place he went to Memphis and Corinth. At Corinth his company was merged into the Thirty Second cavalry and formed part of Cabell’s brigade, and participated in the battle of Farmington. Gen. C. having been assigned to the Trans Mississippi Department, M. D. Ector, Adjutant of the Third Texas cavalry, was promoted to brigadier general and placed in command of the brigade and the name was changed to Ector’s Texas Brigade. Perot was at Richmond, Ky., in the Kentucky campaign, Murfreesboro, Tenn., Jackson, Miss., Chickamauga, and all of the general’s campaign and siege of Atlanta. In the famous night march between Atlanta and Chattanooga, when at one time Ector’s brigade had possession of Sherman’s stores at Altoona, Comrade Perot was mentioned and recommended for valor and meritorious conduct, with request of a position in A. and I. G. regular C. S. A. He was at Decatur, Ala., Nashville, Tenn., and Spanish Fort, Ala., and was paroled at Meridian, Miss. He is a member of A. S. Johnston Camp, Paris, Tex., and Commander of Camp Captain Perot No. 397, U. C. V.

Source: Confederate Veteran Magazine, January 1899

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