CONFEDERATE BIOGRAPHY: WASH COLE - Cherokee County, TX

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Submitted by Doris Peirce - ginlu@charter.net
27 January 2002
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TEXANS WHO WORE THE GRAY by Sid S. Johnson 
WASH COLE

Wash Cole, a son of Josiah Cole, was born in Alabama in 1835 and 
removed with his father's family to Texas in 1848 and settled in 
Cherokee county.  In June, 1861, he enlisted in Co. C, Third Texas 
Cavalry, commanded by Col. E. Greer, and was killed at Oak Hills, 
August 10, 1861.  Young Cole displayed great gallantry and offered 
up his young life on the altar of his country.  Chivalrous and 
brave, and numbered with the flower of Southern manhood, he died 
for his convictions, and history should record the deeds of her 
dead soldiers who moved to the firing line from a sense of duty.  
His warm young life blood moistened the soil of grand old Missouri.