Obituary of R. K. Cheatam

Confederate Veteran
Volume 7, Number 4, Page 175
April, 1899

W. G. Mitchel, adjutant, Camp J. B. Robertson, writes that R. K. Cheatam, who died recently, was a native of Alabama, but spent his childhood in Texas. In 1861 he went from there with Terry's Texas Rangers--the famous Eighth Texas Cavalry--as a private in the Confederate service. He was shot between the eyes near Bardstown, Ky. The bullet remained in his head and was there when he was buried. He promptly, cheerfully, with unwavering courage and implicit faith, obeyed his commander as a good and true soldier, which he ever was, to his country, his God, and in each duty and emergency of life.