ATTENTION MINUTE MEN

In response to Gen. Magruder's call of the 1st. Inst., all Minute Men and ever able bodied man it (sic) Austin county is earnestly called upon to assemble at Bellville on Wednesday the 9th Inst., armed and equiped (sic) (with thee (sic) days or more rations) ready to take up the line of March for Indianola Dec'r 3 1863.

J. W. McDADE, Capt comdg Austain (sic) county minute men.

"ATTENTION MINUTE MEN", The Bellville Countryman (Bellville, TX), Saturday, December 5, 1863, p. 2, col. 2.

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