WWII D-Day Airborne Sainte-Mère-Église Normandy Artifacts WWII Fort Benning Airborne Infantry Training Maps WWII 987th Field Artillery Battalion D-Day James L. WWII 101st Airborne Division 'Market Garden' Paratrooper Artifacts WWII 5th Air Force - New Guinea campaign Recon Photos Original WWII Allied Maps - European Theater Original WWII Allied Maps - Pacific Theater The battle of Pleasant Hill was determined to be a draw.RARE: WWII Battlefield Recovered FIRED Bullets and Bullet Casings DeRussy, Mansfield, and Pleasant Hill) between June 1863 and April 1864. The regiment defeated the Union troops at Poison Springs and Mansfield. The 17th Texas infantry regiment fought in two battles in Arkansas (Poison Springs and Jenkin’s Ferry) and several more in Louisiana (Milliken’s Bend, Ft. While it is unknown if Burleson personally saw any combat, he was armed for battle with a Bowie knife and musket, two objects which are also currently on display at the Bullock Museum. Private Burleson would have used these binoculars to sight locations and keep track of troop movements during battle. Regiments drilled constantly so that they could react without thinking when given an order on the battlefield. Troops had to be taught a multitude of orders, formations, and movements, as well as the bugle calls that commanded the open fire, cease fire, charge, and retreat movements. In this role, he would have been in charge of training the regiment. He served as an Assistant Instructor of Tactics. He enlisted as a 23-year old in the Confederate Army’s 17th Texas infantry regiment on in Lockhart. His one claim to fame was that he shared a first and last name with his uncle, Edward Burleson, who as Commander in Chief of the Texas Volunteer Army, helped Texas win its independence from Mexico during the 1835–36 revolution.Įdward B. Burleson (1838–1917) on the roster of Texas leaders who achieved military success during the Civil War.īurleson, like the majority of Texas’s approximately 90,000 Civil War soldiers, was a rank and file soldier.

Civil war navy binoculars