Confederate Biography :  F. B. Erwin  

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TEXANS WHO WORE THE GRAY by Sid S. Johnson, pg. 154 

Frank B. Erwin was born November 25, 1845, in Chambers county, Ala., 
and removed to Texas with his father's (Col. Thomas B. Erwin) family 
and settled in Smith county in 1850.  At the early age of sixteen 
he joined Douglas' Texas Battery in Tyler, participating in the 
battles of Elk Horn Tavern and Farmington.  Being under the conscript 
age, after serving one year with the battery, he ws honorably 
discharged and, returning to the Trans-Mississippi department, enlisted 
in one of the regiments that composed Walker's division, making as 
gallant a soldier there as as he did in the artillery service.  At 
the close of the war he was married to Miss Laura Hoskins, a native 
of Kentucky.  They reared three daughters: Delia, wife of A. B. 
Reiley, a prominent business man of San Antonio, Texas; Sallie, 
also living in that city; and Stella, who resides with her parents 
in Tyler.  Mr. Erwin is a man of sterling qualities and is a popular 
citizen.