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XIV. Arkansas Medical Direclor, Algernon S. Garnett, M. D., Hot Springs; Medical Inspector, P. O. Hooker, M. D., Little Rock- Ark.
XV. Texas Medical Director, S. H. Stout, M. D., Dallas, Tex.; Medical Inspectors, Elias J. Beall, M. D., Fort Worth, Texas, and F. E. Daniels, M. D., Austin, Texas.
XVI. Tennessee Medical Director, John B. Conway, M. D., Tullahoma, Tenn. ; Medical Inspectors, D. D. Saunders, M. D., Memphis, Alexander Erskin, M. D., Memphis, and Dearing J. Rob- erts, M. D., Nashville, Tenn.
By order of J. B. Gordon, General commanding.
GEORGE MOORMAN, Adjutant- General and Chief of Staff.
[From the Baltimore, Md., Sun, Oct. 7, 1894.]
THIRD BATTERY OF MARYLAND ARTILLERY,
C. S. A.
Its History in Brief, and Its Commanders.
BALTIMORE, October 6, 1894.
Since the establishment of a National Military Park at Chattanooga, Tenn., by the Government of the United States, frequent mention has been made of the Maryland commands which took part in the battles of Chickamauga, Lookout Mountain and Missionary Ridge. A misapprehension seems to prevail in the mind of every person who writes upon the subject, as regards the commanders of the Third Battery of Maryland Artillery, C. S. A., and the part that battery took in the late war.
I would like to give, through the medium of your paper, a correct version of the matter in a few words.
The Third Maryland Battery. was mustered into the Confederate States service January 14, 1862, at Richmond, Va., and was ordered to Knoxville, East Tennessee, February 4, 1862. Under General E. Kirby Smith it went into Kentucky, August, 1862. After the return of General Smith to Tennessee the battery was sent to Vicksburg, Miss., arriving there January 3, 1863. Shortly afterward one gun was sent to General Ferguson, on Deer Creek, Miss., and two guns
