wound up actually capturing, taking fort sims and capturing the entire garrison including captain william maltby. what happened to william and the other prisoners were taken, and they were sent to new orleans. by this time jasper, because of the seriousness of his wounds and all, had been -- he had been appointed commandant of the vicksburg garrison. and when he found out that his brother william was down in new orleans, he immediately arranged that william be brought up to vicksburg to be his ward. so i can only imagine, we can only imagine the, you know, the emotion involved in the two brothers, one in the blue uniform of the brigadier general, and the other in the gray uniform of the confederate captain. in fact, that's where my book begins, because this is such a stirring emotional incident that i wanted to brick it to the -- bring it to the attention of the readers right from the start. and that meant for the next several months before he was finally exchanged william, captain william maltby confederate states army then is spending time in vicksburg at the ward of his brother, jasper. so it

soldiers, want up capturing, taking for its sins and capturing the entire garrison including captain william maltby happens to william and the other prisoners were taken and was sent to new orleans. by this time jasper because of the seriousness of his wounds and all, had been appointed commandant of the vicksburg garrison and we found out his brother william was in new orleans, immediately arranged william be brought up to vicksburg i can only imagine, imagine the emotion involved in two brothers, one in a blue uniform of brigadier-general in the other in the gray uniform of confederate captain and that is where my book begins. this is a stirring emotional incident i wanted to bring to the attention of the readers write from the start and that meant for the next several months before he was finally exchange, william, captain william maltby, a confederate states army spending time in vicksburg must have been very interesting, the conversation and i am sure the older brother tried to get his younger brother to take the oath of allegiance to the united states and then of course he would be released b

maltby from ohio, and he he originally came to texas. he wanted to establish the newspaper "the ranchero," so that was when the younger brother, william came down here. and referring to the older brother, jasper maltby he has no linkage whatsoever with texas. jasper maltby also from the north, wound up in, of all places galena, illinois. and he had served in the mexican war, and he became a g