The Online Archive of Terry's Texas Rangers
Sharing & preserving the history of the 8th Texas Cavalry Regiment, 1861-1865
The Online Archive of Reminiscences
of the Boys in Gray
John Farmer
JOHN FARMER, Houston, Texas—Born Feb. 21, 1842, near Flora, Ill. Enlisted in the Confederate Army in September 1861, at Houston, Tex., as private in Company K, Eighth Texas Cavalry, Forrest's Brigade, Jos. E. Johnston's Division, Army of Tennessee. John G. Walker, first Captain and Frank Terry, first Colonel. Was discharged February, 1863, on account of wounds and joined the Trans-Mississippi Division, January, 1864.
Was wounded in the left leg in Forrest's raid on Mumfordsville, Ky., Murfreesboro, Tenn., Shiloh and several other smaller skirmishes in Tennessee and Kentucky.
Yeary, Mamie. Reminiscences of the Boys in Gray. McGregor, Texas, 1912.
Page 220.