San Patricio County Texas Archives Photo Tombstone.....Rachal, Darius Ciriaque 
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Cemetery:           Rosita Cemetery At White Point, San Patricio County
Name:               Darius Ciriaque Rachal

Date Of Photograph: February 12, 2011
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Darius Ciriaque Rachal (b. Jan 23, 1841; d. Aug. 27, 1918) Resided at Rosita, 
TX on the White Point peninsula along the Nueces Bay. 
Rosita is now a ghostown. D.C. Rachal owned land south of the Coleman-Fulton 
Pasture Co. along the edge of the Nueces Bay, totaling 31,000 acres and was a 
small cattle competitor of the Pasture Co. He was a Rancher, businessman, 
cattle driver, a descendant of the French Acadian's; D.C. went on to become a 
County Commissioner for San Patricio,Tx. 
Along with S.G. Borden, George W. Fulton and David Sinton, he helped to 
establish the town of Sinton, Texas. He also helped relocate the county seat 
from Old San Patricio, Tx. to it's present location in Sinton. 

D.C. served with the Confederate Army from 1861-1865 and rode with General 
Hood in 'Hood's Texas Brigade' (aka, "The Bloody Fifth), he saw action at the 
Second Bull Run, Antietum, wounded at Gettesburg, fought hand-to-hand combat 
at Chickamaugua, the Battle of the Wilderness, Fredericksburg and was present 
at Lee's surrender at Appomattox, being discharged from service in 1865 as a 
Captain of the Confederate Army.
He was one of only 557 soldiers to have survived from the original 3,500 
enlistee's of Hood's Texas Brigade.


Additional Comments:
Rosita Cemetery once held 250 victims of the 1919 Hurricane, whose remains 
were later re-intered at Bayside. It holds the remains of the White Family 
members who first settled the area in the 1850's and many victims of the 
Yellow fever outbreak of 1867. It is privately owned by descendents of the 
Rachal family living in San Patricio County and can only be visited by seeking 
permission from those members. It is surrounded by a large private game 
hunting ranch today. White Point itself is a restricted area due to an Oil 
drilling company claiming ownership of the peninsula.

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