CONFEDERATE BIOGRAPHY: Payne Wingate Chase - Smith County, TX *********************************************************** Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm Submitted by Mary Love Berryman - marylove@tyler.net 6 June 2002 *********************************************************** TEXANS WHO WORE THE GRAY by Sid S. Johnson, page 305 P. W. CHASE. Payne Wingate Chase, of Tyler, was born in Natchez, Mississippi, August 22, 1840, and removed to Texas in 1893, and settled a year or so later in Smith county. He enlisted in "Adams Troop," commanded by Captain W. T. Martin, who was afterward a major general in the army of Tennes­see. His company was a part of the "Jeff Davis Legion," and saw active service in the army of Northern Virginia. This legion was under the command of J. E. B. Stuart, Wade Hampton, Fitzhugh Lee, and P. M. B. Butler, successively, throughout the entire war. Young Chase was a dashing cavalryman under these illustrious men, making a creditable record in the Virginia army. He is an accomplished South­ern gentleman, and a leading business man of Tyler.