Tag: ramon t. de aragon
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De Aragon, The Chronicle of a Confedere Surgeon – Part 9
Author’s Note: This is part 9 in the series on Major Ramon T. de Aragon. After the Battle of Chickamauga, De Aragon’s brigade returned to Mississippi and was placed in the division of Major General Samuel Gibbs French. It was to remain in this division till the end of the war. When reading excerpts of […]
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DE ARAGON, The Chronicle of a Confederate Surgeon – Part 8
Author’s note: Part 8 of the series on Major Ramon T. de Aragon. After the fall of Vicksburg, Major De Aragon’s brigade is recalled to Tennessee as the Yankee forces under Rosencrans advance on Chattanooga. Ector’s Brigade was to play a pivotal role in the opening of hostilities at Chickamauga Creek. Chickamauga For the […]
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DE ARAGON – The Chronicle of a Confederate Surgeon – Part 6
This is the 6th part in the series about Major Ramon T. de Aragon, a surgeon in the Army of Tennesee. This post covers the Battle of Murfreesborough after Bragg brought his army back out of Kentucky following the Battle of Perryville. The journey back to Knoxville was about two hundred miles through country that […]
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DE ARAGON, Part 5 – The Kentucky Campaign
Author’s note: This is the fifth installment in the series on Major Ramon T. de Aragon. After the battle of Shiloh the Confederate Army of the Mississippi withdrew to Tupelo, MS and Braxton Bragg was put in command. He reorganised the army and there were two changes which affected Major de Aragon. First, the regiments […]
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DE ARAGON, Part 4 – Shiloh
This is the fourth part in the series on Major Ramon T. de Aragon. This is his regiment’s involvement in the battle and we can make some assumptions about De Aragon’s activities. The assistant surgeon of the regiment, along with the medical steward, followed the troops onto the field and when they engaged the enemy, […]
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DE ARAGON, Part 3 – The Battle of Belmont,
Author’s note: This is the third installment of the series on Major Ramon T. de Aragon. Here, his regiment was part of the force that Leonidas Polk sent across the Mississippi river from the fortifications in Columbus, KY to meet the troops of U. S. Grant at Belmont. Mo. The following is from the […]
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Major Ramon T. de Aragon, Part 2
Author’s note: This is the second installment of the series on Major Ramon T. de Aragon. The following is an excerpt from “DE ARAGON – The Chronicle of a Confederate Surgeon“. Chapter 2 The 13th Tennessee Infantry During the month of May, 1861 the states of Arkansas, North Carolina, and Virginia followed their neighbors’ […]