CONFEDERATE BIOGRAPHY: C. M. BURKETT - Smith County, TX

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TEXANS WHO WORE THE GRAY by Sid S. Johnson, p. 130.

C. M. BURKETT

Charles Miller Burkett, was born in South Carolina, 8th of January, 
1842, and removed to Smith County, Texas, in 1878, and settled seven 
miles south of Tyler where he now resides.  Enlisted in Co.. "K" 2nd 
South Carolina infantry and served until the end in 1865. He has a 
splendid war record in the army of Northern Virginia. Participated 
in the battles of Gaines' Mill, Frazier's Farm, Malvern Hill, 
Fredricksburg, Spottsylvania, Cold  Harbor, Wilderness, Gettysburg 
and in the fights around Petersburg and Rich­mond; finally stacked 
his rifle when Gen. Lee surrendered at Appomatox. His devotion to 
the south in her mighty struggle sprang from the conviction of being 
right; Young Burkett made an ideal soldier of a great cause. On the 
7th of Feb. 1866, he married Miss Georgianna McMath.