CONFEDERATE BIOGRAPHY:  NATHAN HALL, Smith County, TX

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Submitted by Mary Love Berryman - marylove@tyler.net
14 April 2002 
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TEXANS WHO WORE THE GRAY by Sid S. Johnson - Page 164

NATHAN HALL.

When James P. Douglas in the spring of 1861 recruited in Tyler the 
fifty men who became a part of the First Texas Battery of artillery, 
there was found in the squad one Nathan Hall.  He was a bachelor, a 
house carpenter by trade, and a raw boned yet heavily built, red 
headed, square faced son of Kentucky of the Scotch-Irish type.  He had 
lived in Tyler several years and was a great hunter in the wild woods 
of Smith county, a subject about which he loved to spin yarns. A 
mernber of the battery relates the following:  "I vividlv recall not 
only Nath. Hall's personality, but some incidents the outbreak of the 
war he enlisted in Titus county and was mustered into Co., I, Ninth 
Texas Cavalry, being elected second lieutenant.  He was promoted to 
captain and served with ability and gallantry until on account of ill 
health he was forced to resign when he returned to Texas. He was 
compli­mented for the manner in which he handled his company at Bird's 
Creek and Elk Horn.  After regaining his health he organized and 
commanded a company which was assigned to duty on the Texas border.  
After the war he located at Cle­burne, Texas, and became a prominent 
lawyer.  Captain English represented his county in the legislature 
with marked ability and is recognized as being one of the foremost
men of the state.