CONFEDERATE BIOGRAPHY:  Joseph Harrison Bell - Harrison County, TX

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Submitted by Mary Love Berryman - marylove@tyler.net
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TEXANS WHO WORE THE GRAY by Sid S. Johnson 

J. H. BELL.

Joseph Harrison Bell, of Marshall, born in Oglethorpe county, Ga, 
26th of January, 1840, and removed to Texas with his father, Joseph 
Bell, and settled in Harrison county in 1852, where the subject of 
this sketch was reared.  In June 1861, he enlisted in Co. A, 3rd 
Texas Cavalry, and was paroled at Canton, Miss., in 1865, then 
returned to Texas, where he has continuously resided.  Young Bell 
saw active service from the beginning to the end in Ross' Texas 
Brig­ade, participating in the battles of Oak Hills, Chustenallah, Elk 
Horn Tavern, Farmington, Iuka, Corinth, Jackson, Holly Springs, and 
numerous other fights and skirmishes. He was twice wounded, at 
Chustenallah, and in a battle near Marietta, Ga, in 1864, both 
wounds being serious, but on recovery, returned to his company and 
announced ready for duty.  In January, 1861, he was married to Miss 
Lizzie Long, a daughter of Col. Ben Long, a prominent planter in 
Harrison county.  They have six children living.  Jeptha Victor, a 
business man of St. Louis, Mo.; Archer Leniard, a prominent railroad 
man of Marshall, Benjamin Harrison, teller in the First National Bank 
of Marshall, Virgie, single, at home with her parents, Oran 0., 
business man of Mar­shall, Harry Long, bookkeepor for Marshall Oil 
Mill, Mary Kee, married L. L. Oliver, dispatcher for the Texas & 
Pa­cific Railway Company.  Harry Bell made a fine record as a 
Confederate soldier and as a citizen of Harrison county. Intelligent, 
honest and faithful to every trust, in his declin­ing years, is 
surrounded by his children and the warmest friendship of all people 
who know him.  He was with Gen. Joe Johnston in the Georgia campaign, 
and with Hood at Franklin and Nashville, his brigade being under Gen. 
Bedford Forrest.