Confederate Veteran, August 1920, vol. 28, No. 8, Page 292, Col. 2

BLEDSOE'S BATTERY.
William H. Matson, of Matson, Mo., calls attention to the short article "From the Other Side" on page 237 of the June VETERAN, saying: "I was a member of Bledsoe's famous battery from start to finish. When General Price crossed the river at Memphis old "Sacramento" was exchanged for another gun on account of its bore having gotten too large for the ammunition from being fired so much. Then we were attached to service with the 7th Texas, commanded by General Moore. We were never captured during the war, and we were surrendered at Augusta, Ga. We were in all of the engagements around Corinth, Holly Springs, Chickamauga, Lookout Mountain, Missionary Ridge, from Dalton to Atlanta; then we were at Franklin, which was the hardest fought battle of which we have any history since the world began. I was exceedingly lucky. I was never captured, never in hospital a day during the war, and never wounded. Mr. Catron, Watt Anderson, and Rice Wood were lieutenants in our battery, and if alive they will back me up in all I say. Your Yankee contributor is mistaken all the way through. ... I am almost eighty years old and will continue taking the VETERAN as long as I live, but I won't read a Yankee history."