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From "Lone Star Blue and Gray", Essays on Texas in the Civil War, by Ralph Wooster, page 294: (Note: It is actually on the chapter about Hamilton Bee.) Last sentence of first paragraph: "They met the confederates at Pleasant Hill on the seventh".
Next paragraph: "A portion of Green's cavalry waiting for the Yankees put up a brisk fight finally halting the Union advance at Carroll's Mill, some eight miles on the road to Mansfield. Bee was ordered up in reserve with Debrays, Buchels, and Terrell's regiments and put his forces into line of battle, where they remained for the night."

"At daylight, Green returned to Mansfield with James P. Major's Division and all of the artillery, leaving Bee to contest the enemy advance. This Bee did by forming the regiments in successive lines of battle, at intervals of five hundred yards, holding each line as long as possible, and then retiring to the next. In the heavily wooded country the Confederate cavalry was able to consume seven hours in its retreat of seven miles to Taylor's (*as in Richard Taylor's) waiting position."

*The previous page has Special Orders, No. 72 March 12, 1864. Magruder to Bee. March 23, 1864.

On page 297, last sentence of paragraph one (I believe they are at Pleasant Hill at this point), the last sentence is: "When the attack on the right "disordered" the enemy, Bee, with Buchel's and Debray's cavalry, was to charge straight up the road and through the village on the top of the hill, while Major took possession of the road to Blair's Landing on the Red River".

I don't know if this is what you are looking for, but it might be a start..
This is a really good book, and has good documentation, much of which is over my head militarily, but it certainly is worth your look. It is a good read, and has great blow by blows of the action, which I find interesting as an amateur military buff. My Great Grandfather, Willam Fleming was in Company G of Green's Brigade, and I've been researching his civil war record for family purposes, so following the battles through. Hope this helps someone.

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