Confederate Biography :  JOHN C. EDMONDS, Hunt Co, TX

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TEXANS WHO WORE THE GRAY by Sid S. Johnson, p. 90

John Carter Edmonds, of Sherman, was born in 1847 in Alexanderia, 
Fairfax County, Virginia.  At the age of fifteen he became a volunteer 
in the Confederate army, enlisting in Mosby's command, where even at 
that early age he made a brilliant record as a soldier, as testified 
by John W. Munson in his "Recollections of a Mosby Guerilla" the 
Johnny Edmonds so often mentioned in that interesting record being none 
other than Col. John C. Edmonds.  The mere stripling who was so gallant
and brave in boyhood afterward become the high minded and honorable 
man.  After the war young Edmonds attended the Virginia Military 
Institute, graduating in 1873.  He came to Texas in 1878, locating 
in Greenville where he taught school and later began the practice of 
law.  He was however soon called to the presidency of Austin College 
in Sherman, where he remained; was elected mayor of Sherman in which
capacity he served term after term until the outbreak of the Spanish-
American War when he was commissioned colonel of the Fourth Texas 
Infantry of the United States Volunteers, serving as such until muster 
out of his regiment a year later.  He was then elected commandant of 
cadets at the A. & M. College in Bryan, Texas; and two years later 
was chosen superintendent of public schools in Bastrop which position 
he held at the time of his death, Feb. 1st, 1907.  Col. Edmonds was 
married at Greenville, Texas, in 1879 to Miss Dixie Spencer, and one 
son, Newton C. Edmonds and three daughters survive him.  Col. Edmonds 
was a nobel man, a brave soldier, a scholar and a Christian gentleman.