Asa Hoxey Whiteside, a 19 year old Grimes County, TX farmer, was at Fox’s Gap and Sharpsburg in Maryland in 1862 as a Private in Company G, 4th Texas Infantry. He was captured at Gettysburg on 2 July 1863 and… continue reading

Private John Trant, Company G, 4th Texas Infantry, 22 years old, was killed at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862. Amounts due to him a the time of his death were paid to Captain R.H. Bassett as agent for John’s mother… continue reading

Walter Clark’s Histories of the Several Regiments and Battalions from North Carolina in the Great War 1861-’65 (1901) [hyperTOC] is a go-to reference. Here’s the page at the start of his chapter on the 48th North Carolina Infantry (Volume 2,… continue reading

Former Austin, Texas Mayor Benjamin Franklin Carter was Lieutenant Colonel of the 4th Texas Infantry and commanded the regiment at Sharpsburg in September 1862. In July 1863 he was seriously wounded at Gettysburg and died on the 21st in Chambersburg,… continue reading

In the 1840s and 1850s the Lawrences and the Pinckneys were farm neighbors in Grimes County, Texas. Farmer and tanner Martin Byrd Lawrence’s (1794-1851) place was in the tiny community of Retreat – named for the nearby plantation of early… continue reading

Here are a pair of pre-war photographs of Greer W Wood, later Private, Company F, 4th Texas Infantry and Sharpsburg veteran. The first as a very young man (c. 1855?) and the second at age 26 on the occasion of… continue reading