Two Confederate Officers Remember Gettysburg (Gregory A. Coco) -GC Fritz by Eric Wittenberg

by Eric Wittenberg

ranging from the contention that Lincoln had a troubled and perhaps scandalous early adulthood in Springfield

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as Reconstruction became increasingly bitter

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Two Confederate Officers Remember Gettysburg (Gregory A. Coco) -GC Fritz by Eric WittenbergGreg Coco Colonel Robert Michael Powell (1826 1916) of the 5th Texas Infantry Regiment was born in Alabama but moved to Texas in 1849 to practice law. When the war broke out, he has commissioned a captain in Company D, 5th Texas Infantry, and was promoted to colonel and command of the regiment in November 1862. The 5th Texas, part of Jerome Robertsons Texas Brigade, played a prominent role on July 2, 1863, at Gettysburg, where the 37 year old Powell