Texans capture guns at Second Manassas

Two of Hood's Texans, cousins, Pvt. Emzy Taylor (left) and Pvt. George M. Taylor
(Civil War Talk)

(TDbD) On this day in 1862, Hood's Texas Brigade played a distinguished part in the battle of Second Manassas.

After a Union assault was broken up by artillery fire, Confederate general Longstreet launched his First Corps, with the Texas Brigade in the lead, in one of the most successful counterattacks of the Civil War.

The Fourth Texas Infantry, under the command of Lt. Col. B. F. Carter, captured a federal battery of artillery, losing eleven killed and twenty wounded in the process. Continued