You'll find folks who say the 3rd Arkansas was the unit known as the "3rd Texas" while in Hood's Texas Brigade, but that complimentary nickname was first applied to the 18th Georgia, while they were in the Texas Brigade, as they were at Sharpsburg, in the cornfield, along with my two great uncles, of Company A.

Incidentally, John Gordon, later Governor of Georgia, was in command of Alabama trooops in the sunken road. He was wounded five times before leaving the field. He said the last round hit him in the face, and when he fell his face was in his kepi, filling with blood. If there had not been a bullet hole in his hat, he would have drowned, he wrote in his memoirs. Tough dudes in those days. Stan