CONFEDERATE BIOGRAPHY: J. P. CRAVER - Harrison County, TX 
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TEXANS WHO WORE THE GRAY by Sid S. Johnson 

J. P. CRAVER

The W. P. Lane Camp, Marshall, Texas, mourns the death of another 
loyal, faithful and beloved comrade.  James P. Craver was born on 
December 22, 1844, in the state of Georgia.  He entered the 
Confederate service December 20, 1862, as a private in Co. D, 32d 
Texas Infamtry, and was mustered out of the service at the close of 
the war, in 1865.  As he was when only a boy true and faithful to 
his country and her cause, so when the war was over he addressed 
himself with the same unswerving fidelity and zeal to the building 
up of her waste places, to the encouragement of his fellow men, and 
to the establishment of that golden rule which requires us to do as 
we would be done by.  At Kennesaw Mountain he was shot through the 
right lung, and one rib was taken out and carried off.  He was 
believed to be dead, and was taken to the dead house, where he 
remained all night.  The next morning he was discovered to be still 
living, and was taken back to the hospital; and after many weeks of 
suffering, he recovered and returned to his command.  Comrade 
Craver's death occurred on June 25, 1906, at his home, in Harleton, 
Texas, and the next  day with willing hands but sorrowing hearts we 
laid him in his grave with the usual ceremonies, in the presence of 
his large family and many sorrowing friends.   Confederate Veteran.