He was elected to the Legislature in 1866, serving until reconstruction.  He died in 1877.

There was never a Major appointed afterwards in the Fifteenth.

About the last of January we had another little battle scare, but it failed to materialize.  General Longstreet had ordered a pontoon bridge from Richmond, and had determined upon a descent upon Knoxville.  But the authorities at Washington having learned of our preparation to make another advance, ordered General Thomas to reinforce General Foster with his corps, take command in person, and to drive Longstreet “beyond the confines of East Tennessee.”  The enemy’s cavalry was thrown forward, and part of Longstreet’s command having been ordered East, the movement was abandoned; the inclemency of the weather, if no other cause, was sufficient to delay operations.  Foster being greatly reinforced, and Longstreet’s forces reduced by a part of his cavalry going to join Johnston in Georgia, and a brigade of infantry ordered to reinforce Lee, the commanding General determined to retire higher up the Holston, behind a mountain chain, near Bull’s Gap.

On the 22d of February we quit our winter quarters, and took up our march towards Bull’s Gap, and after a few days of severe marching we were again snugly encamped behind a spur of the mountain, jutting out from the Holston and on to the Nolachucky River.  A vote of thanks from the Confederate States Congress was here read to the troops: 

“Thanking Lieutenant General James Longstreet and the officers and men of his command for their patriotic services and brilliant achievements in the present war, sharing as they have the arduous fatigues and privations of many campaigns in Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Georgia, and Tennessee,” etc.

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CHAPTER XXVIII

In Camp on the Holston, East Tennessee.  Return to Virginia.

While Longstreet’s Corps had done some of the most stubborn fighting, and the results, as far as victories in battle were concerned, were all that could be expected, still it seemed, from some faults of the Generals commanding departments, or the war department in Richmond, that the fruits of such victories were not what the country or General Longstreet expected.  To merely hold our own, in the face of such overwhelming numbers, while great armies were springing up all over the North, was not the true policy of the South, as General Longstreet saw and felt it.  We should go forward and gain every inch of ground lost in the last campaign, make all that was possible out of our partial successes, drive the enemy out of our country wherever he had a foot-hold, otherwise the South would slowly but surely crumble away.  So much had been expected of Longstreet’s Corps in East Tennessee, and so little lasting advantage gained, that bickering among the officers began.  Brigadier Generals