CONFEDERATE BIOGRAPHY:  WILLIAM HERRING, 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 

WM. HERRING.

William Herring was born in Walton county, Georgia, Sept. 2, 1822.  
He married Mrs. Elizabeth Leigh, a daugh­ter of James M. Newman, 
prominent citizen of Coweta county, Georgia, June 7, 1849. He enlisted 
in his native State in Captain Long's cavalry com­pany and made a 
gallant Con­federate soldier.  Was under Robert E. Lee and performed 
a good part in the struggles of the army of Northern Virgnia. He 
was in the campaigns in Virginia, Pennsylvania and Maryland, and 
having received a wound at the battle of Get­tysburg that 
incapacitated him from active field duty; the lat­ter part of the war 
he was in the quartermaster's department, filling the post with 
effi­ciency until the surrender in 1865.  He removed to Texas in 
December, 1866, locating in Chappell Hill, Washington county, where 
he was a planter and merchant until his removal to Tyler in May, 1891.  
He died October 16, 1901. He was a minister of the Methodist church, 
and his life was largely given to advancing the cause of education
and Christianity. Rev. and Mrs. Herring reared four chil­dren who are 
prominent people in business and social circles; Wm. W. and Joe, and 
their sister Louella reside in Tyler. Walter L. lives in Chappel Hill. 
Wm. Herring lived a useful life and served his country with devotion. 
The South called her sons for the common defense and the subject of 
this sketch went early to the front.