Letters From Veterans

Confederate Veteran
Volume 3, Number 7, Page 220
July 1895

W. C. Parchman, Mt. Vernon, Texas, May 27, '95.:
I am 56 years old. Was born in Tennessee and raised in Texas. Cast my first ballot for Bell, of Tennessee, and went with my country in the events that followed. Served the four years of the civil war in nearly all of the Southern States east of the Mississippi. Was a member of the famous 11th Texas Cavalry, C. S. A. Ours was the only regiment that did not surrender, and we killed the last man that went down in battle.

We have our annual reunions every first Thursday and Friday in August. This year we meet at Clarksville, Red River county, Texas. About fifty out of 1,300 are all that remain of us. I want the photographs of the two boys who held Lee's and Grant's horses during the short time occupied in Lee's surrender to Grant. Of course, if you have them, I know I can get them. I am always glad to get the Veteran. You ought to have started it years sooner. May the Lord bless you in its perpetuation.