The Last Roll: Samuel Irwin Bryan

Confederate Veteran
Volume 18, Number 5, Page 248
May, 1910

Samuel I. Bryan was born on the Durasno Plantation, Perry's Landing, Tex., in September, 1844, and died in Houston, Texas on December 6, 1909.

When only seventeen he joined Terry's Texas Rangers, and served the South loyally while the war lasted. He was with the Army of Tennessee from Shiloh to the fall of Missionary Ridge, being under Gen. A. S. Johnston at Shiloh and General Bragg for the rest of the war, save the last few months, when he was with the regiment of Col. R. R. Brown in Texas. He never lost a day from duty while in service, and never missed a reunion of Terry's Texas Rangers. Since the war he has lived on his plantation, taking close interest in all that pertained to the good of his State and the advancement of the U. C. V. He leaves a widow and one daughter.