CONFEDERATE BIOGRAPHY: JOHN G. CRUMPLER. - Smith County, TX

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Submitted by Doris Peirce - ginlu@charter.net 28 December 2001 
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TEXANS WHO WORE THE GRAY by Sid S. Johnson 

JOHN G. CRUMPLER.	

John G. Crumpler was born in Alabama and removed to Texas and 
settled in  Smith county in February, 1847.  His father, James P. 
Crumpler, was a native of Virginia.  He enlisted in Kaufman, 
Texas, in Lockhart's company, Walter P. Lane's regiment; saw
active service with the Trans Mississippi army under Kirby Smith; 
participated in the battles of Cave Hill, Pleasant Hill, Mansfield 
and Carion Crow, besides others of lesser note.  He was married in 
Smith county to Miss Annie McCarty, and has several grown children.  
He has followed the occupation of a farmer and passed his years as 
a good Confederate soldier and an honorable and upright citizen.  
The subject of this sketch is a fitting represeantative of those 
ho rushed to the front in troublesome times, and in peace build 
up the waste places made desolate by the cruel fate of war.