CONFEDERATE BIOGRAPHY:  B. D. EWING - Hunt County, TX

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TEXANS WHO WORE THE GRAY by Sid S. Johnson, p. 140.

B. D. EWING.

Benjamin D. Ewing was born in 1831 in Wilson county, Tenn., where he 
grew to manhood, receiving a limited ed­ucation.  He removed to Texas 
in 1856, but when the war between the states commenced in 1861, he 
returned to Ten­nessee and enlisted as a private in the First Tennessee 
Cavalry, commanded by Col. Frank McNairy, which was organized by a 
special act of the legislature before the seces­sion of that state.  
After about a year's service, the 1st battalion of cavalry was 
consolidated with the 7th and formed the Second Tennessee Cavalry. He 
was with the army under Zollicoffer at Fishing Creek when that gallant 
general was killed; was in Forrest's Cavalry for a long time, being in
all the battles from Fishing Creek to the surrender of Gen. Forrest in 
Alabama, and always showed the bravery of a true sol­dier.  It is said 
of him that he and his horse "Mack" were always on the firing line.  His 
gallantry made him the confi­dant of his officers, who often placed 
squads of soldiers under him on important missions.  He was made a Mason 
during the war, and it was with Masonic honors that he was laid to rest 
at his old home at Lane, Hunt county, Texas, on Christ­mas day, 1906.  
He left a wife and five children to bless his memory as a husband, 
father, and Confederate soldier.