Confederate Biography :  W. G. ENGLEDOW, Cherokee County, TX 

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TEXANS WHO WORE THE GRAY by Sid S. Johnson, p. 94

William G. Engledow, Walker's division, Eleventh Texas Infantry, went 
out as captain and was promoted successively to rank of major and 
lieutenant-colonel.  He was born in Tennessee, but came to Texas with 
his parents in the early '30s and settled near Nacogdoches.  He was 
married to Miss Nancy E. Ridgell, of Alabama, and moved to the John 
Engledow League in the northern portion of Cherokee county, where the 
town of Knoxville was afterward laid out.  Here in the early days of 
the war between the states he raised a company and served throughout 
the war in Arkansas and Louisiana.  He took part in seven battles and 
minor engagements, including Mansfield and Pleasant Hill, being 
severley wounded in the last named battle.  He died at Knoxville, Texas, 
September 11, 1871.  Col Engledow was a planter and made that business 
a success.  An old-timer, he served his country whenever occasion
demanded it.