Excerpt from Texas Brigade: Being a Narrative of Events Connected With Its Service in the Late War Between the States
Victor Hugo says: "Destiny entertains a purpose. It watches mysteriously over the future historian. It allows him to mingle with exterminations and carnages, but it does not allow him to die, because it wishes him to relate them." Be this as it may, certainly an actor in the scenes he describes should be allowed to possess advantages in the narration of the incidents not possessed by one not so connected.
The author was an actor in most of the events portrayed, and, in addition thereto, he has had the fraternal co-operation of his old comrades - from the commanders down - in the prosecution of this "labor of love."
During the year 1863, Captain Rufus F. Dunn, Company F, Third Regiment Texas Cavalry, was, on account of his feeble health, detailed from operations in the field to write a history of the operations of Ross" Texas Brigade; which design, as the following extract from a letter of General Ross shows, was immediately defeated by the death of Captain Dunn, and permanently impaired by the loss of documentary data, trophies, etc., mentioned. The extract in question reads: "Captain Dunn, whose health had failed, was detailed to write a full and accurate history of the brigade, and I furnished him with all necessary data, orders, papers, etc., to render his duty of easy compliance; but, unfortunately, he died in Alabama, and I received this information simultaneously with the intelligence that my trunk and private papers entrusted to his care had fallen into the hands of the enemy. In my trunk was found twenty stands of colors, and other trophies that we had captured from the Federals."
After many efforts to ascertain the whereabouts of Mrs. Dunn, success was attained in 1878.
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