CONFEDERATE BIOGRAPHY: GEORGE W. LACY - Burnett Co, TX

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Submitted by Doris Peirce - ginlu@charter.net
24 February 2002 
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TEXANS WHO WORE THE GRAY by Sid S. Johnson
GEORGE W. LACY.

A pioneer resident of Texas, George W. Lacy, died at his home 
near Marble Falls, on June 3, 1906.  He was born in Christian 
County, Ky., in 1837, and went with his parents to Missouri when 
yet a child.  The family removed thence to Texas in 1859, and 
had hardly time to get settled before the breaking out of the 
war.  The son George enlisted in Company B, Twenty first Cavalry, 
Parson's Brigade, and he was regularly in the great battles of 
this famous command.  He was wounded in the battle of Crowley's 
Ridge, Ark.; and in an engagement near Helena, in November, 1862, 
while charging a battery, he was struck in nine different parts 
of his body, and was not able for duty until March, 1864, when 
he took part in the Red River campaign and served till the end 
of the war.  He returned home after the war, and in 1866 he 
married and removed to Burnet County, where he engaged in farming
and stock raising with remarkable success, and where the remainder 
of his life was spent, with the exception of three years in Utah.  
He was a man of practical common sense, a disposition kind and 
charitable, and his circle of friends was large.  His last hours 
were soothed by the tender devotion of sons and daughters and 
the sorrowing wife.

Confederate Veteran.