Confederate Veteran – April 1904

Gen. Granbury commanded a brigade of Texans in the Army of Tennessee, C.S.A. In the battle of Franklin, Tenn., November 30, 1864, he was killed. His body was buried in the Polk Cemetery by Ashwood Church, near Columbia, Tenn. In November, 1893, the Granbury Camp, U.C.V., of Granbury, Tex., appointed Dr. J.N. Doyle [J.H. Doyle’s brother] to go to Columbia, exhume the body, and bring it to Granbury for reinterment.

The General’s uniform and army blanket in which he was buried were in a tolerably fair state of preservation. The remains were reinterred here November 30, 1893, just twenty-nine years after he sacrificed his life for the land he loved.

More people were in our town on that occasion than ever before.

The town of Granbury was named in his honor. The plain marble slab, placed at the grave at Columbia, is at the head of the grave in the cemetery at Granbury, and bears the following inscription: “Brig. Gen. H.B. Granbury, of the Confederate Army from Texas. Born in Georgia; killed at Franklin, Tenn., November 30, 1864.”

An effort is now being made by Texans to erect a monument to Gen. Granbury on the Public Square of Granbury, Tex. As yet, however, a very small amount of funds has been received.

At the head of the procession, mounted on a gray horse, is Maj. J.A. Farmwalt [sic] [Formwalt], who commanded the Tenth Texas, Granbury’s Brigade, at the battle of Franklin, and was severely wounded in that fearful conflict. He informed me a few days ago that Granbury’s Brigade went into the battle six hundred and fifty strong, and only one hundred and seventy-five answered at roll call the next morning.

Adjutant John Willingham was in command of the Tenth Texas, and the Junior captain was in command of the brigade.

Maj. Farmwalt [sic] [Formwalt] will be eighty-four years old on April 24 next. He is tall and straight as a Comanche Indian, as jovial as a boy, and a native of that State, renowned for the gallant heroes it has produced–Tennessee. He is impatiently waiting to attend the next reunion at Nashville.

~ Web Page by Virginia Hale ~

Confederate Veteran – April 1904

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