As I review the web  pages for the Brigade, I am beginning to see individual items that need correction. During the weeks ahead, I will try to bring all areas into alignment with known history. It never ceases to amaze me that the data continues to change as more information is found. I would like to find the lost Ross chest that contained the captured flags of several regiments and the papers and orders of the brigade.  I need to see the papers of the Ross Association and those held in private hands. It would be great if this were available online and digitized.

The Brigade was a pale shadow of itself at the end of the war, but still was recognized as a Brigade. When the 3rd was overrun at Brown's  Mill Georgia, the Yankees thought they had defeated the brigade. Yet soon they were again being attacked by the brigade. They then began a retrograde toward the Union Lines that one could consider a route. All the time they were only persued by less than 1200 men in three forces. Wheeler had less than 400, Armstrong the same and Ross had started with about 500 and was down to less than 400.

The major undertaking of writing a true and accurate account of the brigades actions would be a monumental task.  The accounts by Hale, Rose, Grisson and others has always fallen apart at the end. The early deaths of several of the officers of the brigade is also sad. General Ross, and several colonels in their 50s. Added to the loss of documents, the brigade ends up with only the flowerly words of Victor Rose who did not do a complete history.

I understand there is a new work on the brigade, but I have not seen it. I look forward to something that tells all and gives the brigade it true place in history.