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THE OFFICIAL NEWSLETTER OF COL. CHARLES DEMORSES’ 29 TH TEXAS CAVALRY CAMP

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Grand Saline, TexaTexass Saturday, May 13 , 2017

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Col. Charles DeMorse’s

292929 th Texas Cavalry SCV Camp # 2269

From Commander: Bobby W. Smith Sr.

On the 152 nd year anniversary of the 29 th Texas Cavalry, which was now attached to Walkers Greyhound’s, 1 st Brigade Division as of 2 nd February 1865. Was Dismounted and Ordered by Gen. Edmond Kirby Smith to march to Hempstead, Texas, and was encamped at Camp Groce.

On the 31 th March 2017, I, Commander Bobby Smith and Captain Marshall Neagle with our wives Rebecca Smith and Vickie Neagle; made a field trip, picking up the march trail starting at Rusk, Cherokee County, Texas, and following the march trail to Hempstead, Texas. It was a cool, breezy and beautiful spring day, as it must have been when the troops marched 152 yrs ago. I was very excited in retracing the 29 th Texas Cavalry dismounted march trail. Thinking of my family members of Company C, and how hard this trail must have been for them. They were only able to march, about and up to 15miles a day. I have in my possession and files of this march from diaries and reports of various soldier’s who made this march. I will be inserting some of this material in this newsletter. I hope you Enjoy the Newsletter.

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GENERAL EDMOND KIRBY SMITH

COMMANDER OF

THE ARMY OF TRANSTRANS----MISSISSIPPIMISSISSIPPI

THE 29 th TEXAS CAVALRY REGIMENT DISMOUNTED.

General E. Kirby-Smith dismounted the 29 th Texas Cavalry Regiment, on 21 February 1865 and attached it to the 1st Texas Infantry Brigade which was under the command of General Thomas N. Waul . This brigade was part of Walker’s Texas Division Commanded by General John H. Forney. Walker’s Division, dubbed “Walker’s Greyhounds” was known throughout the army as the “most marched division in the Confederate service.” General Kirby-Smith’s reason for dismounting the 29th Texas Cavalry and a number of other cavalry units “was owing to the scarcity of corn and fodder to feed the animals; and besides, the cavalry branch of the service was larger in proportion than all the infantry and artillery combined, in the Trans-Mississippi Department.”

Maj.-General John George Walker ( July 22, 1821 – July 20, 1893 )

….was a Confederate General in the War Between the States. He served as a Brigadier General under Stonewall Jackson and James Longstreet, before commanding the Texas Division Unit in the Trans-Mississippi Department , known as Walker’s Greyhounds for their speed and agility.

Walker’’’s’s Greyhounds DIVISION Composition

When Major General Walker was given a District Command in late 1864 the Division was given to,

COMMANDER, MAJOR GENERAL – JOHN HORACE FORNEY

1st Brigade / Regiments

Col. Overton C. Young Brig. Gen. James M. Hawes Brig. Gen. Thomas N. Waul Brig. Gen. Wilburn H. King ( Promoted ) Col. Richard B. Hubbard

• 12 th Texas Infantry ( Young’s 8th) ( Col. Overton C. Young ). • 18 th Texas Infantry ( Col. Wilburn H. King ) ( Transferred to the 4th Brigade ) • 22nd Texas Infantry ( Col. Richard B. Hubbard ) • 13th Texas (Dismounted) ( Col. Anderson F. Crawford ). • 29th Texas Cavalry DeMorse’s Regiment ( Attached March in 1865 ) • Haldeman’s Texas Battery ( Capt. Horace Haleman ).

2nd Brigade/ Regiments

Brig. Gen. Horace Randal Brig. Gen. Robert Plunket Maclay

• 11th Texas Infantry ( Col. Oran M. Roberts ) • 14th Texas Infantry ( Col. Edward Clark ) • 28th Texas Cavalry ( Dismounted ) ( Lt. Col. Eli H. Baxter Jr. ) ( later transferred to the 4th Brigade ) • 6th Texas Cavalry Battalion ( Lt. Col. Robert S. Gould’s) (Dismounted) • Daniel’s Texas Battery ( Capt. James M. Daniel )

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3rd Brigade/ Regiments

Col. George M. Flournoy Brig. Gen. Henry E. McCulloch Brig. Gen. William R. Scurry Brig. Gen. Richard Waterhouse ( Promoted )

• 16 th Texas Infantry ( Col. George M. Flournoy ) (later transferred to the 4th Brigade) • 17th Texas Infantry ( Col. Robert T.P. Allen ) • 19th Texas Infantry ( Col. Richard Waterhouse Jr. ) • 16th Texas Cavalry (Dismounted) ( Col. William Fitzhugh ) • 2nd Partisan Rangers ( Attached in April 1865) • 3rd Texas Infantry ( Col. Phillip N. Luckett ) (Only during the Red River Campaign ) • Edgar’s Battery ( Capt. William Edgar )

4 Original 4th Brigade/ Regiments

Brig. Gen. James Deshler

• 10th Texas Infantry • 5th Texas Cavalry (Dismounted) • 18th Texas Cavalry (Dismounted) • 25th Texas Cavalry (Dismounted)

4th Brigade (1865) / Regiments

Brig. Gen. Wilburn H. King

• 16th Texas Infantry • 18th Texas Infantry • 28th Texas Cavalry (Dismounted) • 34th Texas Cavalry (Dismounted) • Wells’ Texas Cavalry Battalion

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Spring March of 1865 Walker’s Greyhounds Division

Rusk, Cherokee County, Texas was impimpoooorrrrtatatatantnt during the Civil War because

1. It was a conscript district; 5000 soldiers were taken into service here.

2. Two Confederate training grounds were located in Rusk.

3. A Prisoner of War camp located 2 miles south of town on fm 241 was one of four west of the Mississippi River. More than 3000 Union soldiers captured at Mansfield, La. were housed here. The failure of the Union's Red River Campaign to invade Texas and Arkansas ended the Union's efforts to invade and capture Texas.

4. Confederate Gun Factory 1/4 mile east of Rusk on Hwy. 84, cement marker is in the yard of the Sherman home. Built in 1862, Manufacturer of rifles during the civil war. After the war, the gun factory became a major producer of the famous Colt .45 pistol.

After passing through the town of Rusk, we struck camp on a small creek, about 4.5 mile southwest of town.

Box’s Creek, Box Valley Note : The Line of March on The Old Crocket Road now FM Road 1857.

Biographical Note

James Monroe Daugherty (1850-1942) The youngest brother of Capt. Matthew “ Matt” , and Capt. Thomas Wisdom, and Pvt. Christopher Columbus Daugherty all served the 29 th Texas Cavalry. James Monroe Daugherty, joined the Confederate Sates of America Army at the age of Fourteen as an Express Rider delivering dispatches for General Samuel Cooper’s Brigade.

Following the Civil War, Daugherty relocated to San Antonio to work as cowboy for cattle-raiser James Adams. In 1866, Adams allowed Daugherty to drive 500 head of cattle to a new market opening in Missouri. The drive, which came at the beginning of the long-drive open-cattle business, started in Denton, Texas. The drive resulted in the loss of 150 cattle and nearly took Daugherty’s life, but was considered to be a success.

From 1867 to 1873, Daugherty led a series of cattle drives into Indian Territory on behalf of the government in order to provide the Indians with fresh meat. In 1872, Daugherty acquired a ranch near Trinidad, Colorado, and then later started another ranch in Stonewall County, Texas, on the South Fork of the Brazos River, establishing his home in Abilene while continuing in the cattle business.

In 1875, Daugherty married Sara Elizabeth (Bettie) Middleton, the daughter of a pioneer cattleman, with whom he had five children. He was active in local civic affairs in Abilene for several years before moving to an area of El Paso County that would later become Culberson County. Here, he started the Figure 2 Ranch, the Black Mountain Cattle Company, and the community of Daugherty. He organized Culberson County, served as an early county commissioner, organized two local banks and joined the newly formed Cattle Raisers Association of Texas (now the Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association). He was also a charter member of the Trail Drivers Association. James M. Daugherty's wife died on January 23, 1924, and he spent his remaining years on his ranch near Van Horn, Texas. He died on March 2, 1942, at the home of his daughter in Alpine, Texas.

Source:

James Monroe Daugherty.” Handbook of Texas Online”. Accessed, July 7, 2010.

http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/DD/fda20.html.

JAMES MONROE DAUGHERTY

Birth: Feb. 27, 1850 Texas County, Missouri. Death: Mar. 3, 1942 Alpine, Brewster County, Texas.

Burial: Van Horn Cemetery , Van Horn, Culberson County Texas.

Parents: Father; James Madison Daugherty (1809 - 1853) Mother: Eleanor McGehee Daugherty (1815 - 1860)

Spouse: Sarah Elizabeth Middleton Daugherty (1858 - 1924)

Find A Grave Memorial # 19373339

"James Monroe Daugherty (1850-1942), who came to Texas from Missouri as a small child in 1851, served as a Confederate Express Rider at age 14. Following the Civil War he returned home to Denton County and became interested in the cattle business. He participated in numerous cattle drives and by 1872 purchased his first ranch. He was a charter member of the Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association. As his empire grew, Daugherty acquired additional ranches in several states. In 1890 he purchased land here and founded the Figure 2 Ranch. Taking up residence here by 1905, he was active in local politics and served as one of Culberson County's first commissioners upon its creation in 1911.

" Taken from Texas State Historical Marker #5109007936, 32 miles North of Van Horn on SH 54.

Annual Upcoming Events

June 2 ––– 4 , 2017.

2017 Texas Division ReReunionunion

Radisson Hotel 2540 Meacham Blvd. Fort Worth, Texas 76106 For More Information see:

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July 18 --- 22, 2017

2017 National SCV Reunion

Sheraton Downtown Hotel 250 N. Main Street Memphis, Tennessee 38103

Memphis CooCookk Convention Center Downtown

See www.scvmemphis2017.org for full details.

Texas 5 th Brigade Events

PILGRIMAGE PARADE AT-MSCV Events From: MAY 6 th , 2017 9:00 a.m. 11:00 a.m. Location: Jefferson, Texas. Description: Pilgrimage Parade at Jefferson, Texas. Muster at Lyons Park 9am and Parade 10am.

CEMETERY MEMORIAL SERVICE May 13 th , 2017 - 10:00 a.m. Old Ming’s Cemetery, Gilmer, Texas See www.5thbrigade.org for full details 2017

Cemetery Memorial at Old Ming’s Cemetery, Gilmer, Texas.

Description: Cemetery Memorial at Old Ming’s Cemetery, Gilmer, Texas. Muster: 10:00 am – Service: 11:00 am. Directions: in Gilmer on Hwy 271 across from Yazell Chevrolet Dealership take dirt road beside the business office of Mary Ann Wylie Ins. Road takes you up the hill to cemetery. Cemetery is behind the old pottery building. POC – George Linton – 903-734-7327 - cell – 903-720-0305

To become a member

PLEASE CONTACT:

COMMANDER: BOBBY WAYNE SMITH SR. 903-245-5631

ADJUTANT: RUSSELL VOLK 903-830-6932

Guardian Program and Medal

The Texas Division has instituted a special program to honor the memory of our Confederate Ancestors and to help ensure the preservation of their final resting places. Any Texas Division camp member in good standing, who has demonstrated his willingness to serve in this special capacity, and who is at least fourteen years of age, and has tended a Confederate soldier's grave for two years prior, may become a FULL GUARDIAN. All compatriots are encouraged to participate in this most worthwhile program to honor our ancestors and protect their final resting places.

Guardians shall care for and protect the grave of a Confederate Veteran, ensuring that the site is kept clean and well maintained year round. He shall be responsible that the grave has an appropriate marker designating it as the resting place of a Confederate Veteran. He shall personally visit the grave a minimum of three times a year, to include Confederate Memorial Day, or at least one week prior, when he shall place either a wreath or small Confederate Flag, or both, on the grave.

Individuals who wish to become a GUARDIAN must complete the Guardian Application form and submit it to the Chairman of the Guardian Review Committee. There is an application fee of $10.00 to cover the cost of the GUARDIAN pin and certificate.

For more information about the program and how to apply, Contact: Commander Bobby W. Smith Sr.

Col. Charles DeMorses 29 th Texas Cavalry Sons of Confederate VeVeteransterans Camp # 2269 Current Guardians

Name Cemetery Graves

Bobby W. Smith Sr. Providence Cemetery 1 Johnny M. Moore Jr. Jamestown Cemetery 1 Russell Volk Providence Cemetery 1 Robert C. Huff Providence Cemetery 1 Carl D. Dobbs Providence Cemetery 1 Marshall E. Neagle Ford-Green Cemetery 1

Totals : Guardians 6 3 Cemeteries 6

“Are you a Guardian? If not, why not?”