John A. Wharton Promoted

Galveston Weekly News
December 3, 1862
p. 2, c. 4

GEN. JOHN A. WHARTON.-We have learned through a reliable source that our friend and fellow-citizen Col. John A. Wharton has been promoted to the rank of Brigadier General of Cavalry. An honor proudly won. A position well bestowed.

In his new sphere he will do the Confederacy good service and reap another rich harvest.

Born of revolutionary parents-nurtured in the lap of Texas liberty-named for her proudest warrior, he has reflected credit to his ancestry-done honor to his native Texas, and made still more glorious the name of Wharton. When the tocsin of war was sounded on Carolina's shore, and the hostile booming of Sumter's guns announced to a startled nation that the irreconcilable breach had been made, Wharton was the first to raise the Lone Star and declare for Southern liberty. When our seashore was threatened by a retreating foe, we find him a private in the ranks, marching to the relief of Indianola. Subsequently capture by a blockader, and threatened with irons, he hurls defiance in the face of Capt. Alden, and prefers a Key West prison to the Yankee oath of allegiance. Released, he hastens home, rallies around him the young men of Brazoria and adjacent counties, and is accepted by Col. Terry as one of the ten companies to form his regiment of rangers. He determined to fight the battles of freedom in Kentucky or Virginia. Scarce had the regiment reached Bowling Green before the gallant Captain was prostrated by disease. On a bed of languishing for months, his friends opined his death, and sorrowed at his great suffering. Nature conquers, and Wharton is himself again. The death of Lubbock placed him Colonel of Terry's Rangers. Sound judgment and gallant bearing upon the bloody fields of Shiloh, Murfreesboro' and Perryville made him General of Cavalry. The Murat of this latter day, full well does he deserve the praise of the wounded Gen. Duffield, "The bravest man I ever saw."

BRAZORIA.