Mike Serpa
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Gen. George Moorman sent out from New Orleans, August 30, 1902, official orders as follows :
"It is with deep sorrow the General commanding announces to the United Confederate Veterans the death of Maj. Gen. Tyree H. Bell,
ex-colonel of the Twelfth Tennessee Infantry, and brigadier general in Forrest's Cavalry Corps of the Confederate Army, and late major general commanding the Pacific Division, U. C. V.'s, which sad event occurred in this city at 10:40 o'clock p.m. this day at the sanitarium, to which place he was carried from the cars, where he was stricken down while en route from his old home in Tennessee to his later home in Fresno, Cal. Overpowered with heat, and on account of old age, the old hero (having passed the patriarchal age of three score and ten) failed to rally from the severe attack, and crossed over to join Forrest, Chalmers, Buford, Isham, Harrison, Mabry, Ross, Trezevant, Montgomery, Little, and all the rest of the rank and file of Forrest's historic command, of which he was one of the most conspicuous and gallant members...." (Emphasis added.)
Confederate Veteran, October 1902
https://archive.org/details/confederateveter1019conf/page/n427/mode/2up
The Hickman Courier, 09/05/1902
Hard to believe a person would beat an 86-year-old man to death.
"It is with deep sorrow the General commanding announces to the United Confederate Veterans the death of Maj. Gen. Tyree H. Bell,
ex-colonel of the Twelfth Tennessee Infantry, and brigadier general in Forrest's Cavalry Corps of the Confederate Army, and late major general commanding the Pacific Division, U. C. V.'s, which sad event occurred in this city at 10:40 o'clock p.m. this day at the sanitarium, to which place he was carried from the cars, where he was stricken down while en route from his old home in Tennessee to his later home in Fresno, Cal. Overpowered with heat, and on account of old age, the old hero (having passed the patriarchal age of three score and ten) failed to rally from the severe attack, and crossed over to join Forrest, Chalmers, Buford, Isham, Harrison, Mabry, Ross, Trezevant, Montgomery, Little, and all the rest of the rank and file of Forrest's historic command, of which he was one of the most conspicuous and gallant members...." (Emphasis added.)
Confederate Veteran, October 1902
https://archive.org/details/confederateveter1019conf/page/n427/mode/2up
The Hickman Courier, 09/05/1902
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Hard to believe a person would beat an 86-year-old man to death.