CONFEDERATE BIOGRAPHY:  JAMES R. HERRIN - Smith County, TX

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TEXANS WHO WORE THE GRAY by Sid S. Johnson

JAMES R. HERRIN

James Raiford Herrin, born in Macon county, Ala., in 1839.  He was raised an 
orphan boy.  When the war between the states was sounded through the South, 
young Herrin left the military institute at Nashville, Tenn., where he was a 
student and entered the service of the state of Alabama and performed guard 
duty early in February until April 1861, when he joined the 3rd Alabama with 
the 3rd, 5th, 6th, 12th and 26th regimeint, the Alabama brigade of Gen. 
Stonewall Jackson's corps. At the Wilderness he was wounded, being shot 
through the body while raising the Confederate flag when the color bearer 
had been shot down. At Spottsylvania he was wounded in the thigh and 
rendered unable for field duty and was detailed on commissary duty and 
surrendered with Gen. Joe Johnston's army in North Carolina. He was one of 
the great army of Northern Virginia; an old veteran of the matchless Lee and 
participated in the campaigns and struggles of that fighting army of the 
South. Young Herrin had the qualities of the Southern soldier, brave, 
intelligent and gallant. After the war he became a citizen of Texas, and 
stands for what is honest, just and right. Post office, Tyler, Texas.