Whitehead Memorial Museum.  Burial or Del Rio, Val Verde County, Texas

 

Phantly Roy Bean Judge

Birth 1825 • Mason County, Kentucky.  Death 16 MARCH 1903 • Langtry, , Texas,During the Civil War, the Confederate Army invaded New Mexico. At the Battle of Glorieta Pass in March 1862, however, the Confederates lost their supply wagons and were forced to retreat to San Antonio. After taking money from his brother's safe, Bean joined the retreating army. For the remainder of the war, he ran the blockade by hauling cotton from San Antonio to British ships off the coast at Matamoros, then returning 1825

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Ft Lancaster State Historical Park Cemetery

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Joe H. Norris

Norn 1837. Died 1864 Ft. Lancaster, Texas.  Buried at Ft. Lancaster State Historical Park, Crockett County, Texas.  Private, enlisted in Marshall Texas, W.P. Lane Rangers Private Norris died of disease in 1861 while at Fort Lancaster, TX. He was a private in Company F of the 2nd Regiment, Texas Mounted Rifles commanded by Lt Col Baylor.

 

Sheffield Cemetery

 

William Frank Sheffield

 Born 22 Mar 1846. Calhoun County Georgia, Died 12 Jan 1911 Sheffield, Pecos County, Texas. Private, 29th Battalion, Georgia Cavalry. 29th Cavalry Battalion was organized during the winter of 1863-1864 with eight companies and mustered into Confederate service at Lumpkin, Georgia. It was attached to the Department of South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida, and for a time served along the Georgia coast in Eastern Florida. The battalion was active in the defense of Savannah and in March, 1865, totalled about 300 officers and men. It continued the fight in Georgia and surrendered with the department

 

Ozona Cedar Hill Cemetery

 

William Watson Moseley

Birth 15 OCT 1835 • Montgomery, Alabama.  Death 11 AUG 1918 • Ozona, Crockett, Texas.  Sargent, Company C. 22nd Texas Infantry. 22nd Infantry Regiment was organized during the early summer of 1862 using the 5th (Hubbard's) Texas Infantry Battalion as its nucleus. Many of its members were from Palestine, Quitman, Livingston, Mason, and Tyler. The 22nd was attached to O. Young's and Waul's Brigade, Trans-Mississippi Department, and fought in Louisiana and Arkansas including the conflicts at Young's Point and Jenkins' Ferry. Later it moved to Shreveport, Louisiana, then Hempstead, Texas. Here the regiment disbanded before the surrender in June, 1865. I

 

 

Joseph Lamar Casbeer

Birth 25 OCT 1839 • Paris, Lamar co., TX.  Death 6 JUN 1918 • Ozona, Crockett County, Texas1839–1918.  Private, Company G, 17th Regiment, Texas Infantry (Allen's).  17th Infantry Regiment completed its organization at Camp Terry, Austin, Texas, in March, 1862. Men of this unit were recruited at Austin, Belton, and Columbus, and in Burleson, Smith, and Angelina counties. It was assigned to McCulloch's, Flournoy's, Scurry's, and Waterhouse's Brigade, Trans-Mississippi Department, and saw action in Texas, Louisiana, and Arkansas. It lost 21 killed, 68 wounded, and 3 missing at Milliken’s Bend, had 1 officer and 39 men captured during Banks' Red River Campaign, then participated in the fight at Jenkins’ Ferry. In 1865 it was stationed at Hempstead, Texas and was included in the surrender in June.

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Francis Marion Drake

Birth 2 NOV 1837 • Big Sandy Creek, Jefferson, Texas.  Death 18 MAR 1899 • Ozona, Crockett, Texas.  Private, Company F, 6th Regiment, Texas Infantry.  6th Cavalry Regiment [also called 2nd Regiment] was organized with 1,150 men at Dallas, Texas, in September, 1861. Many of the men were from Dallas, McKinney, Waco, Austin, and Lancaster, and Bell County. The unit skirmished in the Indian Territory, fought at Elkhorn Tavern, then moved wast of the Mississippi River. It contained 803 effectives in the spring of 1862 and was dismounted during the battles at Corinth and Hatchie Bridge. Here the regiment reported 148 killed, wounded, or missing. Assigned to Ross' Brigade, it served with the Army of Tennessee during the Atlanta Campaign, was active in Tennessee, and ended the war in Mississippi attached to the Department of Alabama, Mississippi, and East Louisiana.

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Henry Street Hudspeth

Birth 10 APR 1838 • Yalobusha, Mississippi.  Death 20 FEB 1900 • Ozona, Texas. Private Co. D.  11th Regiment, Mississippi Cavalry. 11th Cavalry Regiment was formed during the spring of 1864 using Perrin's Battalion State Cavalry as its nucleus. The unit in Ferguson's Brigade and saw action in Georgia. Later it was transferred to Starke's Brigade in the Department of Alabama, Mississippi, and East Louisiana and ended the war in Mississippi. The 11th was included in the surrender on May 4, 1865.

 

William Mathias Miller

Born 1829, Maryland.  Died 1906 Ozona. Texas.  Private, Company B 2ndVirginia Infantry.  The 2nd Virginia Volunteer Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment raised in today’s West Virginia for service in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. It fought as part of the Stonewall Brigade, mostly with the Army of Northern Virginia. The 2nd Virginia was assembled at Charles Town in April, 1861, then moved to Harper's Ferry to seize the armory. The unit was accepted into Confederate service in July. Its companies were from the counties of Clarke, Frederick, Floyd, Jefferson, and Berkeley. It became part of the Stonewall Brigade and served under Generals T.J. Jackson, R.B. Garnett, Winder, Paxton, J.A. Walker, and W. Terry. The 2nd fought at First Manassas, Second Manassas, First Kernstown, and in Jackson's Valley Campaign. It went on to fight with the Army of Northern Virginia from the Seven Days' Battles to Cold Harbor except during the Maryland Campaign when it was detached to Martinsburg as provost guards. Later the unit was involved in Early's operations in the Shenandoah Valley and the Appomattox operations. It reported 90 casualties at First Kernstown, 25 at Cross Keys and Port Republic, 27 at Gaines' Mill, and 77 at Second Manassas. The regiment lost 2 killed and 19 wounded at Fredericksburg, had 8 killed and 58 wounded at Chancellorsville, and had about eight percent of the 333 engaged at Gettysburg disabled. On April 9, 1865, it surrendered with 9 officers and 62 men. A Notable death from the Regiment is the one of Private John Wesley Culp, who was killed on his Uncles Farm in Gettysburg ( Culp's Hill )

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Samuel Theodore Smith

Born 1846,  Died 1925 Confederate veteran, of 18th La. Cav. Bn., Civil War. Born in Louisiana. Came to Texas in 1872; to Ozona, 1891. Built city's first school, first courthouse, Baptist church, other structures. Married Alice Crimm, March 1, 1876. Had three children. 18th Infantry Regiment completed its organization during the late summer of 1861 at Camp Moore, Louisiana. The men were from the parishes of St. James, St. Landry, Calcasieu, Natchitoches, Bienville, LaFourche, and Orleans. This unit lost 13 killed, 80 wounded, and 118 missing at Shiloh and sustained 13 casualties at Farmington. Later it was assigned to Mouton's and H.Gray's Brigade in the Trans-Mississippi Department. During the winter of 1863-1864 it was consolidated with the 10th Louisiana Infantry Battalion, then in the spring of 1864 part of this command transferred to the 7th Louisiana Cavalry Regiment. It was involved in the operations against the Federal Red River Campaign and later participated in various conflicts in Louisiana. The regiment disbanded during the early spring of 1865.