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THE REBEL YELL
Newsletter of the Texas Lone Star Greys
Sons of Confederate Veterans, Camp 1953, Schertz, Texas
Serving our members in; northeast and East Bexar County, Western Guadalupe County, and Eastern
Wilson County, Texas.
REVISED IN 2015 July and August dedicated to The Texas Lone Star Greys and named for the Cry
that chilled the Hearts of the Intruders, brought Joy to the True Believers, and Echoes still heard in
the Hollowed Valleys, Plains, Forests, Swamps, Bayous, Rivers, Shores, and Upland Reaches (Hills
and Hollers) of the BELOVED SOUTH LAND!
VOLUME II, Number 4; 01, April 2016
Rules for Contributions: This newsletter will post meeting information past, present, and future meetings
and activities; announcements from other camps in our area; articles (please use sources); editorials or
comments will be accepted but they must be acceptable ABSOLUTELY no bigotry or racial prejudice will
be accepted this is an organization for HERITAGE NOT HATE!; if you are interested in buying or
selling items of organizational interest your announcement is encouraged; finally if you want to include
historical trivia related to southern heritage feel free to submit (include your source); CAMP STAFF.
MEETING NOTES: Our March meeting was held at the Schertz, Texas Veterans of Foreign Wars Post;
we want to give a big Rebel Yell for James Jim Hudson who is transferring back to the Texas Lone Star
Greys after living in Houston for several years. We welcome Jim back into the fold and know he will be a
valued asset to our Camp. Brigade Commander, John and Mrs. McCammon, Brigade Chaplain John
Carlton, and George Bubba Cheek attended the Camp Meeting we were happy to have y’all and very much
welcome and appreciate your show of support for the Camp. John Carlton led us in the invocation and
benediction and we are appreciative of his spiritual guidance and reverence for our fallen heroes.
Attendance was good but we sorely missed Dean Scott of our Camp, and Mike Reynolds from Brigade, and
Rebeca Harris wife of our Commander at this meting but we know there will be other occasions. The
presentation was given by Rusty Harris with technical assistance from John McCammon; the program was;
Brigadier General Adam Rankin “Stovepipe” Johnson; Texas Legend, Kentucky Confederate
Partisan and Morgan Raider, Town Founder, and Shining Example for All Disabled Veterans of
Every War. We want to thank Miss Mona Lawrence for providing the delicious cake for all of us
unreconstructed Rebels as her effort to provide treats is always appreciated.
NEXT MEETING: Will be at the Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) Post located on FM 78 in Schertz,
Texas on Thursday 21, April 2016; at 7:00 P.M. come early if you can and socialize, bring a friend,
interested party, and of course family is always encouraged to attend. Don and Miss Mona Lawrence
always arrive early to open and set up for the meeting. Our presentation is To Be Announced (TBA) and
the two main topics for discussion will be FIESTA San Antonio events; the Flambeau Parade and the
Confederate Decoration Day memorial services at the San Antonio Confederate Cemetery. We have
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Compatriots with job/career conflicts, family obligations, and health issues who do not always attend but
we are glad to have y’all in the Camp and are just plain glad to see you when the situation permits your
attendance.
ITEMS of INTEREST:
MAJOR EVENTS
-23, April; Fiesta San Antonio Flambeau Parade this will be a marching event as trailers and pickup
trucks (including farm tractors with trailers) have been prohibited only professional parade floats insured
for $1 million are now permitted which leaves us out. Still, we get to participate, period uniforms and
equipment are highly encouraged or period clothing will more than suffice, however, tasteful casual wear
will be fine, remember we are trying to set a good example. For additional details please contact The
Alamo City Guards Camp they are the “POINT” for Fiesta events at: [email protected] or Brigade
Commander John McCammon at: [email protected]
-24 April: CONFEDERATE DECORATION DAY; San Antonio Confederate Cemetery: there will be
additional details coming forth on this most heartfelt Memorial Ceremony. An artillery salute will be
given, a piper will be on hand as will Sons of Confederate Veteran Camps, United Daughters of the
Confederacy, Order of the Confederate Rose, Confederate Cemetery Association, Re-enactors/Living
History Groups, and possibly representatives of Veterans Organizations, if you are a Veteran please wear a
Veteran baseball style cap with your branch of service/war time service or if a member of a veterans
organization wear your organizational headgear to show veteran solidarity as our Confederate dead too
were veterans!. Our attendance is highly encouraged, this is a chance for us to function as a Camp and
would like to have one member volunteer to be a flag bearer for our Camp, so let us know if you are
interested. Points of Contact: John McCammon [email protected], Alamo City Guards Camp
[email protected], Don Lawrence Texas Lone Star Greys/Brigade [email protected].
***BILL SMITH OF HOOD’S TEXAS BRIGADE WOULD APPRECIATE ASSISTANCE AT
HELOTES’ HIGHLANDER GAMES 3-4, APRIL; AND; GONZALES’ TEXAS FREEDOM ROAD 9,
APRIL events, at Helotes the Medina Greys Camp has volunteered to assist Bill Smith and Hood’s Texas
Brigade. Both events are “blessed” by the communities and event organizers, however, the SCV
recruitment and Public Information effort must be done in conjunction with the living history displays. Bill
and his Camp have laid on the displays, all you have to do is show up and help don’t forget to contact Bill
he has the sign-up sheets. Even if you are not equipped and cannot spare time a visit would be appreciated.
Bill will direct possible members/interested parties to the Camp nearest the individual’s home genealogical
verification notwithstanding. If you are interested in assisting Bill Smith please contact him via:
[email protected]
REBEL YELL Input: Compatriots and family members; once this series of articles about Diversity in
Dixie ends, new material is needed. We have been considering printing stories from our Camp family War
time legacies; this has been mentioned to some of y’all but not brought before the Camp as a whole at a
meeting. All of our families have War Between the States war stories some involve an ancestor’s
experiences in the army others are about family hardships either way they should be shared. We
understand that details have been diminished and other details embellished but that does not matter these
are our stories about our people and need to be retold for the sake of posterity.
Please give your opinions on this idea and let the Camp know if you want to submit material. Dean Scott
in a previous issue shared his ancestor’s story as a POW at Elmira “Hellmira” in New York; demonstrating
that this is a doable project.
-ALSO: we are trying to put together a list and brief description of Confederate units represented by our
Camp members, if you are interested is helping with that possible project for the REBEL YELL please send
in your unit information along with your family tales of the WAR OF YANKEE AGGRESSION.
*REMEMBER: both projects are related and they are all about our American and of course Southern
Heritage.
**H.L. Hunley Award: This is a medal and certificate that is awarded to deserving ROTC cadets; usually
Junior ROTC, by the Sons of Confederate Veterans for academic achievement, citizenship, patriotism, and
military bearing to outstanding cadets however, when I was an ROTC cadet at the University of Kentucky
the local SCV and UDC also presented an award to outstanding Army and Air Force Cadets (early 1970s).
This is a worthwhile program these young cadets deserve recognition and it is good public relations for our
organization. If you know of a receptive ROTC program or an outstanding cadet please call our attention
the program or individual also an Eagle Scout may likewise be recognized by this award. We have former
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Cadets, Boy Scouts, and Veterans in the Camp let’s see if we can’t honor some of these outstanding young
folks.
***FINALLY: Books; all of us own books and have borrowed them from friends and libraries, moreover,
we value the material lets start submitting books we recommend to our Camp members, other Camps have
similar programs and it is a good idea. Please submit your personal favorites we all have them and since
Southern friendly or at least objective books are few and far between these days so newly or recently
published objective books are welcome additions to reading lists. A member recommended reading list
will begin either next month or the following month so help add to this project. Knowledge is power and
the truth sets us free!
Order of the Confederate Rose: If any of our members’ wives, daughters, girlfriends or other associates
are interested please look into joining the Order of the Confederate Rose (OCR) an auxiliary type
organization that does a great deal to support the SCV, and is very supportive in the cause of Southern
Historical Preservation, if you are interested in supporting the OCR/SCV but cannot attend meetings or
participate in OCR activities you can be a Member At Large. Please contact Miss Mona Lawrence she is
our only member of the OCR but is most knowledgeable. (from the TX OCR web site): The Texas Society
Order of the Confederate Rose is open to all interested ladies and men above the age of eighteen (18) years to join in
the mission to support and assist the various camps of the Sons of Confederate Veterans. Our Mission is to be an aid to
the Sons of Confederate Veterans, in its historical, educational, benevolent, and social functions. We also welcome
young boys and young girls into our chapters to become Legacy Members. This is open to children under the ages of 10
years. For more information, please click on the following link to go to the Texas Society Order of Confederate Rose
Website: www.texasocr.org ON A SIDE NOTE: Our Camp also would like for friends and supporters who do not
have a known Confederate ancestor or are supportive of preserving Confederate and Southern History they may
become a FRIEND of the SONS of CONFEDERATE VETERANS and or FRIEND of THE CAMP if you know
of anyone in this category please bring them to a meeting or obtain an application from our Adjutant Don Lawrence.
THAT IS ALL!!!
OUR TEXAS and CONFEDERATE HISTORY: Every issue we will attempt to run a story about a
personality, unit, and events as related to Texas and Confederate History. We are nearly done with the
DIVERSITY in DIXIE series, there are two more increments remaining, we hope that with political
correctness and knowledge suppression on the rise it was decided to present some truth regarding the make
up of Confederate forces and life in the southern states during the war. The articles also touch on northern
divisiveness as well as divisions in Dixie; additionally there is a great deal of Texas history in the series.
This presentation which is an ongoing study is quite lengthy; therefore, we will present it in increments.
Finally, this work is footnoted for the sake of truth and accuracy and it may help in the course of debates
and a mechanism for putting down the politically correct and their intolerant psycho-babble. Let us know
what you think and additional information or sourced corrections are always welcomed.
DIXIE DIVERSITY IN THE GREAT REBELLION:
The Civil War South Was a More Diverse and Divided Section than is Generally Thought and By the Way so was
the North!
Rusty Harris
PART VII
ETHNIC DIVERSITY IN DIXIE
Rebels from Abroad
Germans in the south were a mixed bag when it came to supporting the Confederacy especially in
the Upper South most prominently in Kentucky and Missouri. It was perhaps the German community in
and around St. Louis more than any other segment of the “Show Me State” society that kept Missouri in the
Union likewise in some Kentucky in German communities along the Ohio River. That does not go to say
that Germans did not join Confederate organizations from those states they did, these Germans were loyal
and fought honorably for the Confederacy. In Texas, which is covered in detail elsewhere in this work,
contained a significant German population many were opposed to secession while many joined the
Confederate army and rendered valuable and honorable service. It must be understood that Germany as a
nation did not exist rather it was an assortment of nation states whose only commonality was the language.
Many German immigrants resented the feudal like system maintained by the autonomous German states
and came to America for a fresh start and most succeeded. In the south the German arrivals did not care for
the institution of slavery but were quite ambivalent to emancipation and resented secession. Still, the
Germans while relishing their freedoms in America tended to support a strong central government perhaps
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this was due to generations of near servitude to the noble classes. On the other hand there were a number
of violent rebellions against the Catholic Church and German state nobility that were brutally quelled. It
must be noted that the German immigrant likely fled their homelands to avoid conflict and did not want to
involve themselves in what they viewed as an American conflict.
As with many immigrants in Louisiana, German companies and battalions joined the flurry of
early war volunteerism across the Pelican State. One group of Germans organized a company consisting of
athletes, gymnasts, etcetera was a well fit group of young men who at this period valued physical their
conditioning it would serve them well during hard campaigning. Amongst the German companies
organized at this time were the Blucher Guards, Protection Guards, National Guard, and the Florence
Guards yet another Germanic organization consisting largely of merchants, bankers, brokers, and clerks
from New Orleans was formed. Not only were Germans from Baton Rouge, and New Orleans raising
companies and battalions of Teutonic off spring but up north in Shreveport the Germans there too
organized units for Confederate service, English in all cases was not the dominant tongue. The Twentieth
Louisiana for example contained six companies of Germans and four companies of Irishmen. The Avegno
Zouaves, Polish Brigade, Tenth and Thirteenth Louisiana Regiments all contained respectable numbers of
Germans. Much of the reason so many units contained large numbers of Germans mixed with men from
other nations was that a distrust of German immigrant society existed; prejudicial attitudes not withstanding
the Teutonic rebels acquitted themselves honorably in combat.1
In New Orleans and its environs German societal organizations gave way to soldier aid
organizations making uniforms, clothing, shoes, socks, for the German units forming for state and
Confederate service. It should be remembered however, that Germans on a national scale both sides
included tried to stay aloof of the crisis as a consequence the loyalty of them was viewed with a jaundiced
eye. But in New Orleans people got behind their Teutonic sons as the cosmopolitan society prepared for
war. The Geselschaft organized by the German society to benefit the volunteers, their families, widows
and orphaned children. Another German Women’s aid society that organized was called “The Society of
Ladies in Aid of the Confederate Army.” These ladies worked hard to uniform New Orleans’ sons all races
and ethnicities for the Confederate army. 2
One German volunteer especially stood out, Major Heros Von Borcke who only spoke elementary
English at best was about six feet two inches tall and weighed nearly two-hundred fifty pounds. Following
a disagreement with his father, he tendered his resignation from the Prussian army and headed to America.
Anxious to find out what all the fuss was about in America he came into the Confederacy via Charleston,
South Carolina bringing with him an exceptionally long cavalry saber that in addition to his size became his
trademark of sorts. In spite of his immense size the German was rather refined and quite graceful in
movement and a most accomplished horseman. During the voyage to America Von Borcke’s ship was
boarded by the Union navy due to quick thinking he destroyed all identifying papers rather than risk
detention or arrest. Obtaining a letter of introduction from the Confederate Secretary of War to General
James Ewell Brown “JEB” Stuart commanding the cavalry arm of Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern
Virginia the former Prussian army officer was accepted into Stuart’s command. It did not take long before
Von Borcke became well received by the cavalier southerners of all ranks and proved to be an asset to
Stuart’s cavalry. During the course of the war Von Borcke fought bravely for his adopted army including
being wounded in action.3
A number of German and Prussian barons served in the Confederate army mostly as staff officers
or aides but many fought gallantly in combat. One German Baron, Wilhelm Henry Von Eberstein could
have obtained a commission but enlisted in the Washington Grays part of the 7 th North Carolina Infantry
Regiment serving as the Fifth Sergeant. 4
Aside from the German volunteers Scandinavians formed a company, these progeny of Vikings
organized the Scandinavian Guard, not to be outdone by the Viking descendants; Scottish immigrants
organized a company entitled the Scotts Guards. The Belgian community organized a company of
Flanders’ sons called the Belgian Guards. Two companies of Slovenians organized a squadron called the
Slovenian Guards. The Polish Brigade that formed in Louisiana also contained Irish, French, and Germans
in its two regiments moreover, a smattering of native-born Americans filled up remaining holes in the two
regiments.5
Confederate companies, battalions, regiments and brigades were comprised of Austrians, Poles,
French, Cubans, Dutch, Canadians, Irish, Mexican nationals, Italians, Spaniards, and Germans despite the
fact that many German immigrants remained loyal to the Union or at least maintained a neutral stance.
German Confederates as with their Federal counterparts were known for their musical abilities often were
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seen serving as musicians in bands of both armies. On occasion Germans from both armies were
bivouacked in proximity to one another would sing songs of their native Germanic regions despite being on
opposing sides. Texas for example contributed several companies of Poles for the Confederate army. In
addition to Louisiana and Texas providing organizations composed entirely of foreign born men; Alabama,
North and South Carolina, and Tennessee provided many companies of men from foreign shores. English
was not always the predominant language in a number of battalions and regiments, including some brigade
formations. Incidentally, few historians and Civil War enthusiasts know that Chinese also fought for the
Confederacy most of the Asian men came from New Orleans, Louisiana and Mobile, Alabama and served
honorably.6 One regiment containing Chinese was the 13th Louisiana Infantry a regiment formed out of
two battalions containing French, Germans, Irish, Spaniards, Mexicans, Italians, and of course some
Chinese. The regiment was essentially a cosmopolitan organization recruited largely in New Orleans and
an organization in which English obviously was not the dominant language. In fact, initially all commands
were given in French although it was not the most common tongue. Several languages were spoken but
that hodge-podge of tongues did not affect the regiment’s fighting ability on and off the battlefield. While
the multiethnic regiment was rowdy their courage in combat was never lacking and it fought with valor
through the end of the war. 7
Texas enlisted at least one Cantonese rebel; one Charles Chon was born in China and immigrated
to Texas before the secession crisis. Chon enlisted in the 24th Texas Infantry Regiment one of the
organizations serving in Waul’s Texas Legion. Private Chon was captured at one point during the war and
later exchanged rejoining the fight only to be killed in action at the Battle of Franklin, Tennessee in
December of 1864. The Battle of Franklin was one of a number of battles that should have never been
fought the carnage was abominable especially for the Confederates. The hard fighting Asian rebel was
eventually brought home to his adopted Texas and is buried in Canton. 8
Often Italian immigrants are remembered as those who arrived in New York Harbor from the
1890s through the 1920s but many came to the south during the antebellum period settling mostly in coastal
cities from Charleston to New Orleans. When the secession crisis began these sons of Italy in order to
prove their loyalty began enlisting in a number of predominately Italian organizations that began forming.
There were many Italians in Louisiana chiefly in the New Orleans area and a large number had fought in
Europe in several wars that raged across the continent including the wars of Italian unification. The
Garibaldi Legion was nearly all Italian at least 270 men of the Legion were sons of Italy. The 13 th
Louisiana Regiment was largely composed of foreign born, mostly Italian. The Louisiana Zouaves and the
10th Louisiana contained very large contingents of Italians most were veterans of the violent Italian
unification wars. The Louisiana Zouaves consisted largely of French and Italians also included many
seasoned veterans of the wars in Italy, the Crimean War, and various wars in Africa many of the Italians
served with Garibaldi in Italy. 9
One group of Italian Confederates mostly from Louisiana units held prisoner at Camp Morton,
Indiana were so hungry that they “cultivated” the loyalty of a Yankee sutler’s dog for devious reasons.
There was a particular sutler who cheated many of the Rebels’ out of what little bit of money they could
obtain even abusing the hapless captives on occasion incurring the wrath of the Italians who vowed to get
even. One day the black dog disappeared and the sutler had the rear echelon Union troops guarding the
camp search the prison compound for the dog. In this writer’s opinion the sutler and some guards likely
knew the dog was probably feeding the hunger pangs of the starving Confederate prisoners. One of the
Italian Rebels became violently ill from eating the dog meat attracting the attention of the guards who
discovered the canine’s hide under a bunk and the entire barracks of Italian troops was marched across the
compound to rousing cheers from their ragged comrades and jeers of their captors. By the way, this group
of hardened Rebel Italians did not accept offers from their captors to take the Oath of Allegiance and
freedom. Although this was in 1864 the Italian Rebels likely did not realize it at the time the war would end
in a few months.10 Not to be outdone by the Italians, immigrants from the Aegean regions who settled in
Louisiana albeit a smaller population were caught up in southern patriotism. Greek immigrants arrived
Louisiana during the pre-war years when war came they organized and equipped a large company of men
for the state’s defense. The Greeks sported unique Albanian uniforms similar to the Zouave uniform but
even more gaudy. The Hellenic Rebels entered active Confederate service in May of 1861 serving
throughout the war.11
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Yankees in Gray Southerners in Blue
Significant numbers of northerners came southward to volunteer for Confederate units. One
shining example in the Lone Star State; is the story of George Allen that highlights the loyalty of a northern
emigrant to Texas. In Marcelena, Texas farmer George Allen was a native of New York who moved to
Wilson County, Texas before the war, he volunteered for the Confederate army. Allen joined Wilson
County’s Mustang Grays this organization became Company F; 4th Texas Infantry Regiment comprising
part of the highly vaunted Hood’s Texas Brigade. Allen lost his right arm as a result of combat and late in
his life resided at the Texas Confederate Veteran Home, in Austin he is buried in the Texas State
Cemetery.12 Gordon E. Niles another New Yorker edited a newspaper in the Empire State before the war
came south and enlisted in then Colonel John Hunt Morgan’s 2d Kentucky Cavalry Regiment. Niles
initially served as a private but was later commissioned a first lieutenant and appointed regimental adjutant
some time afterward he was killed in action. The “Knickerbocker” endeared himself to the Kentuckians
proving his courage in action and demonstrating a high degree of intelligence for combat operations.
Always the newspaper editor Niles began publishing a newspaper called The Vidette it was published
“semi-occasionally” as printed on the paper’s banner or when and where the tactical situation permitted
and printing facilities could be “pressed into service.” Niles’ little paper actually was intended to raise the
morale of Pro-Confederate civilians in Tennessee and Kentucky as well as that of the men in Morgan’s
command. Finally, The Vidette was also supposed to negatively impact morale of Unionists and Federal
forces, the publication was a forerunner of present-day psychological warfare techniques.13
Speaking of Knickerbockers who served in the Confederate army one fellow began the war as a
Yankee cavalryman from his home state of New York until he had a change of heart and sides. The famous
Confederate partisan ranger John Singleton Mosby known as the “The Gray Ghost” attracted the former
Union cavalryman to his command. James F. Ames was a sergeant in the 5 th New York Cavalry Regiment
deserted when he learned of the issuance of the Emancipation Proclamation. Sergeant Ames who was
fondly referred to in Mosby’s battalion as “Yankee Ames” or “Big Yankee” because of his physical stature
contended he volunteered to serve in the army to preserve the Union not for emancipation of the slaves a
view shared by a majority of northern soldiers at the time. “Big Yankee” received a promotion to the rank
first lieutenant in Company F; 43d Battalion Virginia Partisan Rangers his courage was beyond reproach
endearing himself to Mosby’s Men. The Union convert fought valiantly and was a reliable Rebel but he did
not survive the war he was killed in action near Piedmont, Virginia in October 1864 the big New Yorker
was buried near where he was killed.14
Sadly to say several regiments of Union volunteers were recruited from the seceded southern
states most notably Tennessee and Virginia but Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, North Carolina, and Texas
too furnished Union regiments. Texas Unionists organized the 1 st and 2d Texas Cavalry regiments, which
operated mostly in Louisiana, and Texas but the two regiments were plagued with bad leadership,
desertion, sickness, poor utilization, and equipage. 15 The non-seceding southern states contributed
regiments and brigades as well as numerous smaller organizations to both armies. Before the war
commenced significantly less than ten percent of the free southern population owned slaves this includes
the states of the Upper South, ironically scores of the loyal Union officers from these particular southern
states remained slave owners throughout the war. Moreover, many Unionist politicians from the nonseceding southern states remained slave-owners as did their leading constituents most of who were not
receptive to emancipation. In fact, many in this category wanted Washington to reimburse them for the loss
of human chattel through emancipation although the war had ended and the 13th Amendment to the US
Constitution was passed in 1866. Abraham Lincoln was so afraid of losing loyal slave-owner support that
he purposely omitted the non-seceding southern states and portions of some seceded states from the
Emancipation Proclamation.16 It should be reiterated at this point that thirty-four of the 435 Confederate
flag-grade officers that wore the wreathed stars of a general was northern born. 17
Perhaps the most extreme example of fractured sentiments is well-illustrated by the blood-fest in
Kansas and Missouri during the Civil War as brutal acts were perpetrated equally by both sides.
Confederate guerrilla leader William Clarke Quantrill was born in Ohio and raised in both the “Buckeye
State” and Illinois arrived in Kansas as a young adult who even taught school for some years before his
involvement in the Kansas-Missouri border war. Quantrill began his life in the border violence as an ardent
abolitionist until the secession crisis commenced when the former “Buckeye” sided with the Confederacy
due in part to his belief in states’ rights. Quantrill’s family in Ohio, Illinois, and Maryland for the most part
remained staunchly loyal to the Union. During the initial stages of the war, Quantrill performed admirably
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but as the war in Missouri and Kansas became increasingly violent with civility thrown to the winds by
both sides the former schoolteacher’s modus operandi degenerated, as did that of his counter-parts in blue
and gray. Much of the brutality was initially perpetrated by fanatical northeasterners that settled in eastern
Kansas before the war, many of the barbarities carried over from pre-war border violence. In a significant
amount of instances, families were split apart with relatives committing brutalities against one another and
their neighbors. The effects of the border bloodletting are legendary and bitterness endured for many
decades even after organized and partisan warfare officially ceased. 18
Charles Russell Barteau like Quantrill was a native Buckeye who chose to serve in the Confederate
army; he was born, raised, and educated in Ohio. In about 1855, Barteau came south on invitation from
some former classmates from Kentucky so he could learn about the south. Touring Kentucky and
Tennessee he accepted a job as a principal in Hartsville, Tennessee he also edited a local newspaper that
leaned strongly toward the Democrat Party supporting viewpoints and the independence of southern and
western party faithful. Barteau was accepted by Hartsville society and he adopted southern lifestyles but
was not a slave owner. When Tennessee seceded the Buckeye State native joined the Confederate army by
enlisting in Company D; 7th Tennessee Cavalry Battalion in October 1861. When his battalion and another
battalion were consolidated to form the 2d Tennessee Cavalry Regiment Barteau was transferred to
Company F; of the new regiment but was soon elected to the lieutenant-colonel of the regiment. The
Buckeye earned a reputation as a solid and courageous officer receiving several wounds during the war. In
fact he was wounded at Shiloh, Murfreesboro, Okolona and Harrisburg (Tupelo) both in Mississippi, and at
Franklin. Franklin the most disastrous battle of General John Bell Hood’s ill-fated Tennessee Campaign
and Barteau was so seriously wounded that he spent the remainder war recuperating at Aberdeen,
Mississippi but was not paroled until July of 1865, two months after the war ended in the Western Theater.
It is quite possible that because Barteau was a native of Ohio his parole was not readily accepted on the
other hand the delay may have been due to the seriousness of his wound. Barteau lost his wife and infant
child shortly after the fall of Ft. Donelson in February of 1862 which was around the time he was promoted
to full colonel. During the war Barteau who usually commanded a brigade and was frequently addressed as
“General” but was never officially promoted to general grade rank. Following the Battle of Shiloh, the
native of the Buckeye State often served under General Nathan Bedford Forrest fighting in some of the
fiercest actions in the Western Theater that cavalrymen were engaged in namely Brice’s Crossroads and
Harrisburg (Tupelo). Following the war, Charles Russell Barteau studied law and was admitted to the
Tennessee bar and became active in Confederate veteran affairs, he resided in the south for the remainder
of his life.19
Gettysburg often touted as the turning point of the war or the ‘high tide of the Confederacy”
occurred on Union soil in Pennsylvania. Even men from the “Keystone State” were of divided loyalty, one
example was Confederate general John C. Pemberton chose to fight for the breakaway southern states. One
of the many sad stories from Gettysburg is that of Wesley Culp who like Pemberton was a Pennsylvanian
by birth and rearing. Culp was living in Virginia when war broke out chose to side with the Confederacy
instead of going back to his native state. When Robert E. Lee’s famed Army of Northern Virginia invaded
Pennsylvania, young Culp re-appeared in his hometown of Gettysburg. On the first day of the three-day
epic battle the Confederates drove Federal forces out of the town affording Wesley the opportunity to visit
with his sisters, other relatives, and old friends even promising to return in a day of two. Unfortunately the
next day, July 2, 1863, the young Rebel Wesley Culp died fighting ironically at Culp’s Hill, on his family
farm one of many Confederates now occupying graves marked “Unknown.” 20
The name Charles Goodnight kindles many images for enthusiasts of the “Old West” and Texas
history especially if one has read the novel by Larry McMurtry or seen the television mini-series Lonesome
Dove although historical fiction are largely based largely on the life of Goodnight. Charles Goodnight
became a post-war Texas legend who personified the age of the cowboy and cattle drives northward that
helped bring the Lone Star State out of economic dire straits brought on by the War Between the States and
throw off the yoke of vindictive Reconstruction. It is very likely few know that Goodnight was born in
Macoupin County, Illinois where he spent his formative years coming to Texas at the age of nine or ten.
While he came to Texas in 1845 spending the remainder of his influential growing, years in Texas,
Goodnight sided with the Confederacy when the state seceded unlike a number of northerners of all ages
that chose to leave Texas. Goodnight who had varyingly served as a scout for the Texas Rangers entered
mounted service in the Confederate cavalry but his unit spent the war on the Texas frontier. Duty on the
Texas frontier was no less hazardous than other theaters of the war where the Rebels faced attacks from
Indian raiding parties often encouraged by Federal agents. There were also brief incursions from Union
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patrols and raids by banditti as well as occasional Unionist activity perpetrated by a few elements of the
Texas citizenry in these far reaches of the state. Once the war ended, the Illinois emigrant came home to
Milam County seeing little in the way of hope for the future. Goodnight teamed up with another
Confederate veteran, Oscar Loving and the men’s lives soon became synonymous with Texas and the
legends of the Old West. The pair of former Rebels gathered wild wide-ranging cattle along with several
other ex-Confederates and headed off to New Mexico and Colorado where the market was ripe for Texas
cattle.
Goodnight and Loving after driving their herd into New Mexico and Colorado continued to face
danger; Loving was seriously wounded in a scrape with Indians and later died from his wounds. Goodnight
buried Loving and continued to share his profits with Loving’s family. The former Rebel built up quite a
fortune for the period with his cattle and other ranching activity. He later helped to preserve the rapidly
dwindling Longhorn breed of cattle as well as the American buffalo. Goodnight married and later
established a ranch near Palo Duro Canyon in the Panhandle Region of Texas where he was a leading
citizen of the area and friend of legendary Comanche warrior Quannah Parker who later became a judge.
Charles Goodnight died in December 1929 as one of the few living Texas legends who contributed so much
to the lore of the Lone Star State.21
End Part VII
TEXAS-CONFEDERATE MONUMENTS and SOUTHERN HISTORICAL SITES: Please feel free
to contribute to this section of our camp newsletter as Sons of Confederate Veterans we strive to call
attention to our historical sites across the Lone Star State and elsewhere. Perhaps our efforts may
help keep such sites from disappearing altogether.
Left: Monument near the site where General Albert Sydney Johnston died at Shiloh: The hope of the western
Confederacy rested upon Johnston’s plan at Shiloh; he incurred a simple wound but bled to death before anyone
realized he was wounded. Johnston has often been referred to as “the General whose star never shined.” Right: Texas
monument at Shiloh National Military Park; the 2d and 9th Texas Infantry Regiments and the 8th Texas Cavalry
Regiment (Terry’s Texas Rangers) fought at Shiloh the epic western battle that determined this Rebellion would not be
a short term affair. Photographs taken by Rebeca Harris
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BATTLEFILED and RELATED SITES:
Left: Shiloh National Military Park; Site where Confederate brigadier general Daniel Ruggles a northern-born officer
who sided with the Confederacy massed as many field pieces as he could find to barrage panicked Union forces in this
photo they are facing the Sunken Road and Hornet’s Nest as they did on 06, April 1862. Right: Duncan Field as
viewed from the Sunken road at Shiloh a hotly contested area on both 6, and 7, April 1862 it is truly a hallowed site on
sacred ground. Photos taken by; Rebeca Harris
THE FOLLOWING ARE THE CORRESPONDING FOOTNOTES FOR THE ARTICLE OR STAFF STUDY ENTITLED:
DIXIE DIVERSITY IN THE GREAT REBELLION:
The Civil War South Was a More Diverse and Divided Section than is Generally Thought and By the Way so was the North!
PART VII (notes and sources)
1
Winters, John, D., THE CIVIL WAR IN LOUISIANA, Louisiana State University Press, Baton Rouge, 1963,
Louisiana Paperback Edition 1991, pp 32-33.
2 Ibid, Winters, pg 40.
3 Davis, Burke, JEB STUART, the Last Cavalier, Bonanza Books, a Division of Crown Publishers, INC., (by
arrangements with Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, INC.), New York, MCMLVII, pp 101-105 and 317-319.
4 Davis, Burke, THE CIVIL WAR, Strange and Fascinating Facts, Wings Books (Random House), New York, 1996
(originally published as; Our Incredible Civil War, Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, New York, 1960), pg 99.
5 Winters, John, D., THE CIVIL WAR IN LOUISIANA, Louisiana State University Press, Baton Rouge, 1963,
Louisiana Paperback Edition 1991, pg 33.
6 Davis, Burke, THE CIVIL WAR, Strange and Fascinating Fact, Wings Books a Division of Random House
Publishing, Inc, New York, Republished by arrangement by Holt Rinehart and Winston, Inc., 1996 (Originally
published as Our Incredible Civil War, Holt Rinehart and Winston, New York, 1960), pg 90…Wiley, Bell Irvin, The
Life of JOHNNY REB, The Common Soldier of the Confederacy, Louisiana State University Press, Baton Rouge,
Louisiana, 1948 (renewed 1970, 1971, 1978 by Bell Irvin Wiley), and reissued in 1978, 1999 by special arrangement
with the author, pg 323 and 324.
7 Southern Historical Society Papers, Presentation of Flag—Camp Life—Going to the Front, By General John
McGrath, Baton Rouge, Edited by, R.A. Brock, Volume XXXI (31), January-December 1903, Southern Historical
Society, Wm. Ellis Jones, Printer, Richmond, Virginia, 1903, pp 103-120.
8 Waul's Texas Legion, S.C.V. Camp 2103, Honoring minority confederates, http://www.wauls-texaslegion.com/minorities.html.
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Winters, John, D., THE CIVIL WAR IN LOUISIANA, Louisiana State University Press, Baton Rouge, 1963,
Louisiana Paperback Edition 1991, pg 16 and pg 33.
10 Rags and Hope, The Recollections of Val. C. Giles, Four Years with Hoods Brigade, Fourth Texas Infantry,
1861-1865, Compiled Edited by; Mary Laswell, Coward-McCann, Inc., New York, 1961, pp 223-224.
11 Winters, John, D., THE CIVIL WAR IN LOUISIANA, Louisiana State University Press, Baton Rouge, 1963,
Louisiana Paperback Edition 1991, pg 33.
12 Simpson, Harold B. Colonel, Hood’s Texas Brigade Association in Reunion and Memory, Hill Jr. College Press,
Hillsboro, Texas, 1974, pg 32, Appendix 6.
13 Duke, Basil W., A History of Morgan’s Cavalry, (new introduction by James M. Ramage), Genesis Publishing
Company, PO Box 269, West Jefferson, Ohio 43162 (CD Rom edition), Blue and Gray Enterprises/Magazine, 522
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Norton Rd. Columbus, Ohio 43228, (originally published in Cincinnati, Ohio, 1867), pg 190, pg 225, and pg 240
(KIA at Edgefield Junction, TN), and 251.
14 Williamson, James J., MOSBY’S RANGERS, A Record of the Operations of the Forty-Third Battalion Virginia
Cavalry from Organization to the Surrender, Ralph B. Kenyon, Publisher, New York, 1896, (Reprinted by Time-Life
Books, INC, Collector‘s Library of the Civil War, Alexandria, VA, 1982), pp 28-29, pg 231, and pg 255.
15 Thompson, Jerry D., Vaqueros in Blue and Gray, New Edition, State House Press, Austin, Texas, 2000, pp 83-84
and pp 86-89…and…O’Brien, Sean Michael, MOUNTAIN PARTISANS, Guerrilla Warfare in the Southern
Appalachians 1861-1865, Praeger Publishers, Westport, Connecticut and London, 1999, pp 88-89, 92-95, pg 112, and
158 (1st Alabama Cavalry Regiment [Union] also Pro-Union Alabama guerrillas pp 85-96.), pp 132-137, pg 138, 149,
pp 152-153, pg 170 (1st Georgia Infantry Battalion [Union] and 1st Georgia State Troops Volunteers [Union] and
Georgia Pro-Union guerrillas pp 16-17, 127-139, pg 142, 145, and pg 146.), pg 19 and pp 20-22 (2d North Carolina
Mounted Infantry Regiment [Union] and 3d North Carolina Mounted Infantry Regiment [Union] also North Carolina
Pro-Union guerrillas pp 4-5, 15-24.).
16 Wright, John, D., The Oxford Dictionary of CIVIL WAR Quotations, Edited by John D. Wright, Oxford University
Press, Oxford, New York, 2006, pg 234 (6), 239 (9), 240 (2, 3, 4, 5), 242 (4, 5), 245 (3), 253 (3), and 263 (4).
17 Warner, Ezra J., GENERALS IN GRAY, Lives of the Confederate Commanders, Louisiana State University Press,
Baton Rouge, 1959, 1987, Louisiana Paperback Edition 2006, pg 5, 27, 51, 62, 71, 77, 93, 94, 97, 112,113, 120, 128,
pg 157, 176, 190, 198, 233, 235, 240, 255, 257, 263, 265, 271, 275, 282, 289, 291, 292, 298, 324, and pg 347.
18 Breihan, Carl W., Quantrill and His Civil War Guerrillas, Promontory Press as division of A & W Promotional
Press, New York, New York by arrangement with Swallow Press Chicago, Illinois, 1959, pp 17-18, pg 21, and pg
22…and…Leslie, Edward E., THE DEVIL KNOWS HOW TO RIDE The True Story of William Clarke Quantrill
and his Confederate Raiders, Da Capo Press a member of the Perseus Books Group, New York, 1998 originally
published 1996 by Random House, republished by special arrangement from Random House, pp 36-37, pp 60-63, pp
66-68, pp 70-78, and pp 82-102 (Leslie’s book is the most detailed and balanced work concerning the KansasMissouri border war and the destructive level of warfare in Kansas and Missouri as well as Kentucky during the Civil
War. This book explains and highlights how both Unionist and Pro-Confederate factions came to wage such brutality
against one another which heretofore has been blamed solely on southern factions.).
19 Mathes, J. Harvey, THE OLD GUARD IN GRAY, Researches in the Annals OF THE Confederate Historical
Association, SKETCHES OF MEMPHIS VETERANS WHO UPHELD HER STANDARD IN THE WAR, AND OF
OTHER CONFEDERATE WORTHIES., ILLUSTRATED, MEMPHIS (TN), PRESS OF S. C. TOOF & CO., 1897,
pp 33-35.
20 Stackpole, Edward J. THEY MET AT GETTYSBURG, A Stirring Account of the Battles at Gettysburg, Bonanza
Books (Originally published Eagle Books, Harrisburg, PA., 1956), New York, MCMLVI, pg 243.
21 The Goodnight Loving Trail, by, Julia Robinson, TEXAS CO-OP POWER Magazine, Volume 71, Number 9,
March 2015, Published by Texas Electric Cooperatives, Austin, Texas (March 2015), pp 9-11.
END OF FOOT NOTES
CHARGE!!!
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