"It was our misfortune that we were not prepared for war. We began behind a little and could never catch up. If the Louisiana forces had been equipped as well as the Virginia troops we would have sent all of Ben Butler's fleet to the bottom of the Mississippi River, and this lacked only a few days of being completed. And if Gen. Albert Sydney Johnston had not been killed at Shiloh we would have captured the Federal Army."
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On the Red River campaign. Quoted in Yeary, Mamie, ed. (1912). Reminiscences of the Boys in Gray, 1861–1865. Dallas: Smith & Lamar. p. 45.
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George Wythe Baylor
George Wythe Baylor (August 24, 1832 – March 24, 1916) was a Confederate cavalryman, a Texas lawman, and a representative of the Texas State Government. He rose to the rank of colonel in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. He afterwards commanded Texas rangers in hunting Indians in Texas and across the border into Mexico, often in pursuit of the Apache chief Victorio and his band.
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