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Last Confederate general dies
On this day in 1928, Felix Huston Robertson died in Waco. Robertson, the
only Texas-born general officer to serve the Confederacy, was born in 1839
at Washington-on-the-Brazos. His father, Jerome Bonaparte Robertson, also
fought in the Civil War, and was for a time commander of Hood's Texas
Brigade. Felix Robertson was appointed brigadier general in 1864. He was a
harsh disciplinarian whose savage punishments and Indian-like features
earned him the sobriquet "Comanche Robertson." The most controversial
incident of his military tenure occurred in Saltville, Virginia. There, on
October 3, 1864, troops under Robertson's command killed well over 100
wounded, mostly black survivors of a Union attack. Though Robertson was
never charged with any crime, one of his subordinate officers was hanged
for murder. After the war Robertson returned to Texas, where he became an
enthusiastic member of the United Confederate Veterans and served as the
commander of the Texas Division in 1911. At the time of his death he was
the last surviving general of the Confederacy.
- Links to Related Handbook of Texas Online Articles
- ROBERTSON, FELIX HUSTON
- ROBERTSON, JEROME BONAPARTE
- CIVIL WAR
- HOOD'S TEXAS BRIGADE
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