CONFEDERATE BIOGRAPHY: DAVID Y. GAINES - Smith County, TX

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TEXANS WHO WORE THE GRAY by Sid S. Johnson, p. 137.

D. Y. GAINES.

David Y. Gaines was born in the state of Florida in 1835, and while a 
boy removed to the state of Alabama, where he was educated and grew to 
manhood.  Removed to Texas in 1857 and settled near Mt. Sylvan in Smith 
county, where he was a planter and a citizen of influence and popularity. 
Before moving to Texas he was married to Miss Isabella Marsh, a daughter
of Col. Bryan Marsh, Sr., who was a native of North Carolina, and a 
leading planter in Alabama.  At the outbreak of the war he raised and 
was chosen captain of the first company that entered the Confederate 
army from Smith county.  This was Company K of the 3rd Texas Cavalry, 
commanded by Col. E. Greer.  Participated in the battles of Oak Hills, 
Elkhorn Tavern and when Van Dorn and Price crossed the Mississippi river 
he was in the battle of Farmington.  On account of bad health he 
resigned and returned to the Trans-Mississippi department where he 
scrved his country to the end of the war, when he removed to Falls 
county and ran a large plantation until his death some years ago.  His 
wife died some time later.  They left three children: He1en, who 
married Dell Hatch, of Lo­reno; David Y., a promising lawyer of Tyler; 
Sallie, who married F. F DeGraffenreld of Chilton.  Capt. Gaines was a 
very popular man, a true Confederate officer and soldier, of good 
education and culture, and died believing in the justness of the cause 
for which the South fought.