CONFEDERATE BIOGRAPHY: WILLIAM BONNER - Smith County, TX

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Submitted by Mary Love Berryman - marylove@tyler.net
28 August 2001
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TEXANS WHO WORE THE GRAY by Sid S. Johnson

WM. BONNER.

William Bonner, born in the State of Alabama, June 3, 1&37.  
Emmigrated to Texas with his father's family, Beckham Bonner, in 1840.  
Killed in the battle of Iuka, Miss., in 1862.  He enlisted in 
Company K, 3rd Texas Cavalry in June 1861 from Tyler, Texas.  He 
participated in the battles of Oak Hills Mo., Chustenallah, I. T., 
Elk Horn Tavern, Ark., Farmington Ten n., and killed in the battle of 
Iuka, Miss. He was the color bearer of the regiment and was killed in 
a few feet of a Federal battery, dying with the Confederate flag in his 
hand.  He was a bright young man and a gallant soldier.