CONFEDERATE BIOGRAPHY:  Banks Gover - Cherokee County, TX

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Submitted by Mary Love Berryman - marylove@tyler.net
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TEXANS WHO WORE THE GRAY by Sid S. Johnson, page 185 

BANKS GOVER.

Banks Gover was a native of Kentucky, born December, 1832, removed 
to Texas with his fath­er's family in 1852, and settled near 
Jacksonville in Cherokee county, where he lived until his death, 
which occurred Novem­ber 27th, 1905, at his bome, at which place he 
was buried.  He was never married, but was very much devoted to his 
sisters and younger brothers, and de­voted a useful life to educating 
and rearing them.  He stood well in Cherokee county, and his word 
was his bond, and always accepted at par value.   He en­listed at 
Dallas, Texas, in Company H. 3rd Texas Cavalry and was a member of 
Ross's brigade in the army of Tennnessee, and bore a conspicuous 
part as a private soldier in the campaign of his command. He was in 
the battles of Oak Hills, Elk Horn Tavern, Iuka, Corinth, Holly 
Springs, Thompson's Station and the cam­paign from Vicksburg to 
Jackson after the fall of the former city.  He was made a prisoner 
in 1863 and released in 1864 or early in 1865,  He was noted and 
commended by his offi­cers for his promptness and daring during the 
eventful four years he gave to the Confederate cause.  After the 
war he settled on the old farm near Jacksonville, and his pluck 
and energy soon brought him a competency.  He was ever careful of 
his charge and made one of the best citizens the old Cherokee 
county ever had, and the county is noted for its good citizenship.  
He died as brave as he had lived.  He left many  relatives in his 
neighborhood who are prominent people.  He was a relative of Gen. 
N. P. Banks of the Federal army that Dick Taylor and his gallant 
men defeated at Mansfield and Pleasant Hill.  Thus the old 
Confederate soldiers-the privates-who made generals, are falling 
like autumn leaves-one by one, and soon the last of the heroic age 
will be gathered to his Father.