CONFEDERATE BIOGRAPHY: JOHN W. DARNALL - Smith County, TX

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TEXANS WHO WORE THE GRAY by Sid S. Johnson

JOHN W. DARNALL.

John Wright Darnall, born in Arkansas, August 16, 1845; died in Texas 
August 14, 1902.  Enlisted May 24, 1861 Fort Washington, Choctaw 
Nation, in the Trans-Mississippi Department in Capt. Dam Waiters' 
company I, of Gen. Cooper's body guard and served through the war, 
until discharged at Hempstead, Texas, in May 1865. Young Darnall 
displayed that heroic devotion to a just cause, participating the 
various campaigns in which his command followed in the war between 
the States. After peace was restored he made a good and leading 
citizen in building up the waste places of his native Southland.