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... Snively expedition . He served also in the Mexican War as a colonel in the militia. He was chief justice of Red River County in ... he was the chief justice of Grayson County. During the Civil War he was a reserve brigadier general of state troops and was a ...

TSHA Handbook Online Article - jbrown - 06/15/2010 - 23:39 - 0 attachments

... in the Thirteenth Regular Infantry during the Mexican War . He moved to Texas at the urging of his older brother Matthew, and in ... Country and owned twenty-two slaves. During the Civil War Ector enlisted as a major with Company E of the Tenth Texas ...

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... he enlisted in the United States Army during the Mexican War . He moved to Milam County in 1852 and served as county sheriff from 1854 ... having a wife named Nancy. At the beginning of the Civil War , Rogers commanded the Milam County Grays, which later became ...

TSHA Handbook Online Article - sdp0076 - 05/26/2011 - 18:20 - 0 attachments

... freight service between Galveston and Houston before the Civil War . Although several of her passengers were killed during a boiler explosion ...

TSHA Handbook Online Article - jbrown - 06/12/2010 - 11:09 - 0 attachments

Philip Henry Sheridan (1831–1888) Civil War: Photographs, Manuscripts, and Imprints , DeGolyer Library, Central ...

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... a prosperous farmer who owned fourteen slaves. When the Civil War began DeWalt was among the first citizens of Polk County to volunteer for ...

TSHA Handbook Online Article - gv0045 - 04/05/2011 - 07:07 - 0 attachments

... at West Point in 1834. After brief service in the Seminole War, he resigned his commission to become, in turn, a civil engineer; a Methodist minister; and a professor successively at Allegheny ...

TSHA Handbook Online Article - jbrown - 06/09/2010 - 17:35 - 0 attachments

... wealth of nearly $10,000. At the outbreak of the Civil War , Phillips and his younger brother William joined the Sixth Texas ...

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... Methodist campground. In September 1864 Union prisoners of war who had been transferred from Camp Groce to a camp in the Bellville ... by: Civil War General ...

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... Texas Cavalry, a home/frontier guard unit. After the war, Stidham farmed in Smith County until his death on Dec. 26, 1888. He is ... by: Civil War Biographies ...

TSHA Handbook Online Article - sdp0076 - 08/04/2011 - 15:17 - 0 attachments