Confederate Biography :  W. C. CONE, Amarillo, TX  

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TEXANS WHO WORE THE GRAY by Sid S. Johnson, page 142

W. C. Cone, of Amarillo, Texas, died at the advanced age of seventy-
four years, May 6, 1906.  He was a member of the Second Texas 
Infantry, commanded by Col. W. P. Rodgers, who died so gallantly at 
Corinth, Miss., in the famous charge in which so many of his 
regiment were killed and wounded.  Participating with his command he 
saw much active service and hard fighting.  The Second Texas lost 
heavily at Shiloh, more than half the command was killed at Corinth, 
and only a small remainder came out of the siege of Vicksburg.  After 
the war he assisted in bulding up the desolated South, and lived to 
see it the garden spot of the universe.  He entered the Confederate 
army from Hunt county.