CONFEDERATE BIOGRAPHY: B. C. DONALD - Smith County, TX

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TEXANS WHO WORE THE GRAY by Sid S. Johnson, p 132.

B. C. DONALD.

Beecher C. Donald, was born in Alabama in 1889 and re­moved to Denton 
county, Texas, with his father's family in 1850. Enlisted in Co. C. 3rd 
Texas cavalry at Larissa, June llth,1861. Participated in the battles 
of Oak Hills, Elkhorn Tavern; crossed the river with Gens. Van Dorn and 
Price in 1862; was in the battles of Iuka, Corinth, Faming­ton, Holly 
Springs, and was killed in the battle of Thompson's Station, 
March 5th. 1863.  He was a good soldier and posse­ssed that dash and
bravery that gave the Confederate a place in the world's history.  
Besides this he was a model young man and a consecrated Christian. Let 
the South drop a consecrated tear over the graves of her dead heroes.