Reminiscences of the Boys in Gray
John H. Houston

JOHN H. HOUSTON, Luling, Texas—Born in Lafayette County, Miss. Enlisted in the Confederate Army April, 1862, at Gonzalez, Tex., at the age of twenty-four, as private in Company I, Eighth Texas Cavalry, Terry's Rangers, Forrest's Brigade, Army of Tennessee. I. G. Jones, first Captain, and Terry, first Colonel. In 1864 was changed to Capt. Dave Terry's company and served in Louisiana and Arkansas the last year of the war. Received a slight wound in the head in a skirmish in East Tennessee. Was never promoted, but went through the war as a private and proud of it.

Was in two battles at Murfreesboro, under Gen. N. B. Forrest; Perryville, Ky.; Chickamauga and many others in Tennessee, East Tennessee, and Georgia. Was in only one skirmish in the Trans-Mississippi Department.

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

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