Muster Roll of Company F, Eighth Texas

Confederate Veteran
Volume 20, Number 12 , Page 574
December 1911

Natt Holman, Sr., of LaGrange, Tex., has preserved the original muster roll of Company F, 8th Texas Cavalry, organized in LaGrange in 1861. They were sworn into service in September, 1861, and elected B. F. Terry as their colonel and Tom Lubbock lieutenant colonel. They were then ordered to report to Gen. A. S. Johnston at Nashville, Tenn. After his death at Shiloh, they were under Generals Bragg, J. E. Johnston, and Hood, department commanders, and Generals Forrest and Wheeler, commanding cavalry. The last two years they served under Wheeler. This company had from first to last, with recruits and transfers from other commands, 117 men, of which thirty six were killed and wounded, others dying of wounds and disease and since the close of the war. There are now only fourteen known survivors, indicated in the list by *.

L. M. Stroble, Captain,
William R. Jarmin, First Lieutenant, Captain, and Major,
Phocian Tate, Second Lieutenant,
W. N. Tate, Third Lieutenant.
J. H. Anderson,
J. W. Andrews,
O. H. Alexander,*
P. H. Arnold,*
J. B. Allen
C. D. Barnett,
B. F. Burke,
Henry Brown,
T. C. Bennett,
A. M. Beall,
Robt. Bracey,
J. K. P. Blackburn,*
H. G. Burton.
L. K. Crockett,
R. R. Crockett,
J. E.Carlton,
D. P. Croft,
G. L. Chandler,
S. G. Clark,
M. P. Cheatam,
J. A. Cook,*
V. F. Cook,
J. T. J. Culpepper.
S. B. Dehart,
W. E. Drisdale,
C. M. Dunneway,
Charley Dirr,
S. C. Drake.
E. H. Emeh.
W. T. Fitz,
J. R. Flewellen.
L. P. Gordon,
F. A. Greene,
Sam H. Grover,
T. J. Grace,
G. L. Gwynn.
J. G. Haynie,
J. L. Harris,
W. H. Harris,*
A. P. Harcourt,
M. G. Harbor,
Charley Howard,
J. A. Holman,*
Natt Holman,*
F. F. Hooper,
O. H. Herbert,
J. R. Hester,
John Humphreys,
W. J. Hill,
J. D. Hunt,
J. P. Hutchings.
C. K. Izard.
S. L. Jarman,
R. A. Jarman,*
T. B. Jones,
R. H. Jones,
A. Jones,
C. B. Jones,
Reding Jones,
B. E. Joiner,
J. C. Justice,
J. F. Jenkins.
Ed Kaylor,
R. P. Kirk,
R. Kurkendall.
William M. Lewis,
B. P. Lewis,
A. G. Ledbetter,
Fritz Lindenberg,
J. R. Long.
H. C. Middlebrook,
W. H. Middlebrook,
H. H. McCreary,
D. A. McGonigal,
W. B. McClellan,
T. G. Mercer,
W.S. Morton,
A. J. Murray,
J. H. Moore.
R. L. Nevill,
W. N. A. Norton,*
S. B. Noble.
W. N. Penn,
I. P. Phillips,
J. E. Priest,
D. C. Payne,
S. C. Patton,*
J. W. Pope,
J. T. Pettus,
Andy Ponton.
J. West Rabb,
Nat C. Rieves,*
W. B. Rieves.
W. T. Scallan,
A. G. Seales,
J. R. Stewart,
W. B. Simpson,*
C. O. Simpson,
J. H. Steverson,
M. H. Saunders,
Sam Street.
W. L. Thornton,
S. C. Thigpen,*
S. K. Tutwiler,
Henry Terrell,
W. M. Wallace,*
Leroy Watson,
B. R. Watson,
W. J. Ware,
W. S. White,
T. H. Wood,
S. K. Woodward.
J. W. Yarbrough.

During the progress of the war Private J. K.P. Blackburn was promoted to captain, Private A. J. Murray to second lieutenant, Private B. E. Joiner third lieutenant, and Private W. B. McLellan to a lieutenantcy. Veterans know that such promotions in active service were evidence of distinguishing merit. Terry's 8th Texas Regiment (bearing Colonel Terry's name to the end, although he was killed early in the war) was engaged in Middle Tennessee so much during the war that it was better known doubtless in the Volunteer State than any of its own regiments, and the men were ever esteemed for their gallantry and their heroism.