Hood
County Texas Genealogical Society
HOOD
COUNTY, TEXAS
THE
CIVIL WAR
1861
- 1865
Updated 04/25/2004
Robbie Green of Cleburne at
Granbury Cemetery
Hood County was
organized and created in 1866 from Johnson County and a small section of Erath
County. Somervell County was organized and created from Hood County and Bosque
County in 1875.
During the Civil
War in Texas, there were three types of military activity:
1. Confederate States of America - Primarily military service in the
Confederate States Army.
2. Texas Frontier
Scouts - Protected the area of Texas. A distinction is that the soldiers were
paid from the state treasury and not from the Confederate treasury. Texas had
three military districts organized for the Texas Frontier Scouts. The 20th
Brigade, that included Hood County, was in the Second District. It was
nicknamed "the Bloody 20th" because it saw little "action."
However, it did keep busy with local marauding Indians. The units of the Texas
Frontier Scouts receive the same military credit as Confederate soldiers, both
for pensions and for entrance of their descendants into genealogical
organizations.
3. Militia - Local
volunteer organizations of most remaining men that protected areas not near
military forts or encampments.
Civil War Military Veterans of Hood
County, Texas
Meet the Civil War Soldiers Who Settled Hood
County Updated 04/25/2004
Johnson County List of Confederate Indigent
Families 1863 - 1865
1890 Hood County Census Index of Civil War
Veterans or Their Widows
Articles from
Confederate Veteran Magazine, Published 1893 - 1932
Hood County Civil War Veterans From 1910
Census
Hood County's Last Confederate Veteran
Civil War Era
Relics Found in Hood County
Johnson County, Texas During the Civil War
Alvarado Home of the Alvarado Rifle
Company
Buchanan County Seat
Camp Henderson Site of present-day
Cleburne
Grandview Home of the Grandview
Cavalry & Grandview Mounted Infantry
Rock Creek Home of the Rock Creek
Guards
Stockton Home of the Stockton
Cavalry
Thorp Spring
Resting place for tired soldiers
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Photo Courtesy of Wayne Moyers |
Biographical Information
3rd Lieutenant Joel
Crawford Archer
Private William Monroe Brazell
Louis J. (Luke) Caraway – Arkansas Post
Battle
Lieutenant Colonel Joseph Newton Chandler
– A Second Biography
Major General Patrick Cleburne – Cleburne's Home in Ireland
Thomas Taylor Ewell A private soldier who
fought with the CSA
Brigadier General Hiram Brinsom Granbury
3rd Corporal Joseph Mitchell Holder
1st Lieutenant H. L. Holt, Doctor
Corporal Reuben Ferguson Jones
Private Samuel Bonaparte Kirkham Sr.
Captain
Frederick Sylvester Larned
Private Andrew Jackson Luttrell
2nd Lieutenant Thomas L. Morris
Lieutenant
Samuel Hancock Smith – Escape
from New Orleans Prison – Obituary
Lieutenant
Second Class David Bruton Wells
Family Connections
Milton Henry Jones, Jr., Benjamin Franklin Jones & Wiley Palmer
Jones
Peveler Brothers of Peveler Valley
France M. Peveler, James M. Peveler & William R. Peveler
Prisoners of War
1864 photo of prison yard at Camp Douglas, Illinois
Known Johnson County soldiers that died at Camp Douglas
Links
The
Civil War in Miniature by Roger L. Curry
Civil War Veterans of Northeast Texas by Ron Brothers
Confederate Research Center at Hill College in Hillsboro, Texas
The Handbook of Texas On-Line A joint project of the Texas State
Historical Association and The University of Texas
10th Texas Infantry by Scott McKay, Historian
Texas in the Civil War Order a free map & guide
Texas
Sons of Confederate Veterans
Recommended Books
Texas Masonic Deaths with Selected Biographical Sketches by
Michael Kelsey, Nancy Graff-Kelsey & Ginny G. Parsons, Heritage Books,
Inc., 1540-E Pointer Ridge Place, Bowie, Maryland 20716, 1998, 203 pages,
Index. Information from the Texas Masonic Grand Lodge annual reports published
for the years 1858 through 1882 is the basis of the book. Deaths of Masons
during this timeframe and many biographical sketches are documented. -
Contributed by Merle McNeese, HCGS Editorial Advisor
Remarks
Photo Credits Hood
County News On-Line
Reenactor Robby Green,
16, of the Texas 7th Company A Infantry that fought with Gen. Granbury's brigade,
paints a poignant scene Saturday at Gen. Granbury's tombstone. Green, a
Cleburne resident, and fellow reenactors marched in the general's birthday
party parade Saturday morning and later held a memorial service at Granbury's
gravesite in Granbury Cemetery. 03/29/1999
Graphics courtesy of Savage / Goodner Camp 1513
Military Webmaster - Virginia Hale on behalf of the Hood County
Genealogical Society. None of this happens without our many contributors and
volunteers. Thanks for your continuing interest and support!
On-line December 16, 1998.
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