Identifier: sponsorsouvenira00unit (find matches)
Title: Sponsor souvenir album : history & reunion (1895)
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: United Confederate Veterans
Subjects: United Confederate Veterans -- Anniversaries, etc United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Anniversaries, etc.
Publisher: (Columbus, Ohio : Terry Engraving Co., 1895.)
Contributing Library: Houston Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: LYRASIS Members and Sloan Foundation

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Alabama in 1845, when ,hewas two years old. Murfree enlisted in the Independent Rifles in 1861, which was a partof the Sixth Alabama Regiment, to the command of which General JohnB. Gordon was elected in the reorganization at Yorktown, Virginia.Comrade Murfree was not absent from his command, except on detachedduty, until his transfer to the Tennessee army in 1863. SPONSOR SOUVENIR ALBUM. 61 This is the identical coat that Murfree took from his body to pillow-General Gordons head when so severely wounded at Sharpsburg. Itwas at that time General Gordon thought he had been killed, and whilemeditating upon his death, he fancied that if the mind was so clear itmight enable him to move the dead foot. Anyhow, he concluded to try it.After the movement of the foot, he realized that he could move his body,and was not dead. Murfree was made lieutenant in Lorings division,and was at Franklin, Nashville and at Bentonville, Xorth Carolina. Hewas offered one hundred dollars for his old gray coat.
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Dr. Hyam Cohkn with Flag of Camp Winnie Davis. One of the most conspicuous veterans at Houston was Dr. HyamCohen, of Waxahatchie, Texas. Although small, he stood erect, undera silk hat that he would not have worn thirty-three years ago, dressedlike a Philadelphia lawyer/ and carried, wherever he went, the magnifi-cent flag that he holds in the picture. The very handsome flag presentedto the camp by him is forty by fifty-six inches. Upon one side, which iscrimson silk, is a splendid painting, which is a finely executed likeness ofGeneral Robert E. Lee on Traveler, sword in hand, eyes flashing fire, 62 SPONSOR SOUVENIR ALBUM. as he rusehd to the front at the Wilderness. Amid smoke and burstingshell is the background. In the foreground is a wounded soldier reeling,dismounted cannon, and other war material. On the reverse side, which isConfederate blue, are the fine gold letters: Camp Winnie Davis, Waxa-hatchie, Texas, U. C. V., Organized February 10, 1890. The flag hasa deep, gold fringe

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