Confederate Biography : CHARLES ERWIN, Smith County, TX  

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TEXANS WHO WORE THE GRAY by Sid S. Johnson, pg. 150

Charles Erwin, son of Col. Thos. B. Erwin, is a native of Chambers 
county, Alabama, born Feb. 11th 1842, and removed to Texas with his 
father's family in 1850, and settled in the county of Smith.  When 
the tocsin of war rang through the land, he joined in 1861 the 
Douglas Texas battery and was killed in the first fight at Elk Horn 
Tavern.  He was a fine soldier.  He sacrificed his life on the 
battlefield in the cause of his people and in defense of the local 
self-government.  He was among the young men that composed the flower 
of Southern chivalry that made the Confederate name reach the very 
ends of the world for devotion to a sacrd cause. His fame is the 
heritage of the generations, now and to come.