A Civil War soldier hit but able to stand was "walking wounded" — expected to make his own way to the rear, find an ambulance, find a surgeon, and survive long enough to be treated. The Confederate ambulance corps was less developed than the Union's Letterman system; many Confederate wounded waited hours on the field before evacuation, and many bled to death in the wait. The Texas Brigade lost 1,786 men killed and wounded in three major engagements of 1862 alone — Gaines's Mill, Second Manassas, and Antietam. Most who survived the field were treated in farmhouses behind the lines. For a Texan, the road home was a thousand miles farther than for any other Confederate soldier.

This W. Britain figure depicts a Texas Brigade infantryman in the moment after being hit — body twisted in pain, left hand pressed to a side wound, rifle still gripped in his right hand as he stumbles back from the line. He wears the Confederate butternut shell jacket, light gray-brown trousers, the dark forage cap, the rolled blanket across his chest, and the cartridge box on his belt. The pose is the kind of close-observed wounded figure that anchors a diorama scene of a regiment under fire — the casualty figures are what made every Civil War line known to itself as a place men disappeared from. Pair this figure with Texas Brigade Standing Firing No.2, the matching firing-line companion; with 1st Texas Flagbearer (First Pattern Bunting), the brigade's colors at the Antietam Cornfield where many of the brigade's 1862 casualties fell; or with Lt. Gen. James Longstreet, the corps commander under whom the Texas Brigade served from the Seven Days through Appomattox.

Scale: 1/30 (60mm). Matte-painted metal. W. Britain model 31179. From the American Civil War range. Single foot figure, supplied painted and ready for display.