Reminiscences of the Boys in Gray
William Taylor Gainer

WILLIAM TAYLOR GAINER, Edna, Tex.—Enlisted in the Confederate Army Sept. 7, 1861, at Houston, Tex., as private in Company G., Eighth Texas Cavalry, Terry's Regiment, Trans-Mississippi Department; Howton, first Captain, and Frank Terry, first Colonel.

Was discharged in 1862 for disability, and returned to my home. I enlisted again and was sent to Padre Island, Tex., where my company was all captured but myself and two others. We made our escape by swimming Aransas Pass and came home. I was placed in what was known as the beef service until the close of the war. I was in a number of picket fights, and was present when Col. Terry had 500 Indians and 500 white men with him, and had raised the black flag, and that there was a large reward offered for Terry's body, dead or alive. When he was killed there were about fifteen men killed and wounded over his body. Tom Deviny of Victoria took up Terry's body and rode off the field with it to the depot at Cave City, and shipped it to Houston, Tex., where it was buried. We lost fifteen or twenty killed and wounded, and buried about forty of the Yankees.

Yeary, Mamie. Reminiscences of the Boys in Gray. McGregor, Texas, 1912.

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