CONFEDERATE BIOGRAPHY:  HENRY MILTON LANE

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TEXANS WHO WORE THE GRAY by Sid S. Johnson

HENRY MILTON LANE

"Maj. Henry M. Lane was a Confederate soldier of as high and heroic record 
as any of either army who ever lived in Louisville." This is the comment of 
a local paper of that city, and his death has removed from its activity a 
useful and prominent citizen. He was a son of Dr. Lane, and was born in 
Crawfordsville, Ind., in 1839. He was related closely to Gen. H. S. Lane, a 
distinguished soldier and public man of that state, at one time United 
States Senator. The family removed to Texas at an early date, and Henry Lane 
was educated at the Bastrop Military Academy.

In 1858 or 1859 he was appointed by Gen. Sam Houston as lieutenant of a 
company in one of the regiments of Texas Rangers, organized to protect the 
Texas frontier on the Rio Grande. At the beginning of the Civil War he 
volunteered, in a regiment of cavalry which was afterwards in Ector's 
Brigade. The brigade was taken to Mississippi by Gen. Van Dorn in 1862 just 
before the battle of Shiloh, in which it participated, and afterwards Major 
Lane's command went to Kentucky under Col. T. H. McCray (31st Arkansas 
Infantry), to whose staff Major Lane was attached. He participated in all 
the battles of the Army of Tennessee. A. noted historical fact is that 
Ector's Brigade when ordered to charge a battery invariably captured it and 
brought the guns within the Confederate lines.

Major Lane was a man of intellect and scholarly attainments, and as a lawyer 
stood in the front rank of practice in his State, and was an untiring 
worker, which doubtless hastened his death.