Confederate Biography :  J. R. ERWIN   

***************************************************************** 
Copyright.  All rights reserved.
http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm

Submitted by Susie McFarland Lemin slemin46@yahoo.com
Sept 21, 2001
*****************************************************************
TEXANS WHO WORE THE GRAY by Sid S. Johnson, pg. 150 

James Robert Erwin, was born at Lafayette, Chambers county, Ala., 
1st of March, 1839, and removed with his father, Col. Thos. B. 
Erwin, who settled in Smith county, in 1850.  Young Ewrin enlisted 
in June 1861, in the Douglas Texas Battery, and died near Fayetteville, 
Ark., February 19th 1862.  He made a good Confederate soldier, but 
died of pneumonia after the short but meritorious servce.  He was a
young man of great promise and had he lived longer would have made 
his mark in the business world.  He was an educated man, bouyant 
and full of vim, and personally very popular with his associates.