Confederate Biography:  E. R. BOAZ, Smith County, TX 

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TEXANS WHO WORE THE GRAY by Sid S. Johnson, p. 193

E. R. Boaz, of Lindale, was born in Talladega county, Alabama, 
May 22, 1838, and entered the Confederate service March 29, 1862, 
in Company A, 30th Alabama regiment, giving to his country his 
active service until the close of the war in 1865.  This command 
was orderd to Knoxville, then to Cumberland Gap, joining the army 
of Gen. Braxton Bragg and was in the campaign of Kentucky.  After 
his  successful raid for supplies to feed the army, the 39th regiment 
was ordered to Vicksburg.  He participated in the battles of 
Chickasaw Bayou, Port Gibson, falling back to Baker's Creek or 
Raymond, where another battle was fought.  This regiment lost their 
color bearer in the desperate encounter with the Federal forces.  
Returned to Vicksburg and was captured and paroled after the fall of 
that city under Gen. Pembleton.  After his exchange he was in the 
battle "above the clouds" on Lookout Mountain  He was in the Georgia 
campaign under Gen. Joe Johnston from Resaca to Atlanta, participating 
in a continuous fight for near one hundred days.  When Hood went to 
Tennessee his command was to the front, and helped make the desperate 
charge at Franklin.  After the retreat from Nashville, he was ordered 
to North Carolina, and when the surrender came he was in Virginia 
where he was paroled, returning to his Alabama home.  On the 29th of 
April 1860, he was married to Miss Susan E. Thompson.  Removed to Texas 
in 1866 and settled in Smith county where he has made a good citizen, 
devoting his time to farming.  Mr. Boaz is one of the sterling manhood 
in peace or war.