Burnet County, TX - Military:  Civil War, True & Harris

Monday, December 25, 2000



Submitted by:  bereach@peoplescom.net  (Bonnie Reach)

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Leonidas Primm True served in the Confederate Army most of the war as a 

Private in Company G of the 54th Nixon Cavalry from Lawrence County, 

Tennessee.  He was wounded going home by a sniper and his left arm was bent 

the remainder of his life.  He was on the 1880 Census in Burnet Co., at 

Oatmeal.  He died in 1905 in Erath County, Texas. However, his son, Phillip 

Shilo True, lived on the Oatmeal farm until his death in 1951.



George Washington Harris was a 1st Lieutenant in the Lone Star Guards, 

organized January 8, 1861 in Burnet County, Texas.  (From Burnet County, 

Texas History)  He came to Burnet in 1858 from Missouri and lived in the 

Oatmeal Community until his death in 1905.  His farm and the True farm 

adjoined and his granddaughter Sarah married Phillip True.

 

Phil and Sarah were my grandparents.

Bonnie Reach, Alba, Texas