CONFEDERATE BIOGRAPHY: M. LASKER 

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Submitted by Doris Peirce - ginlu@charter.net
1 February 2002 
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TEXANS WHO WORE THE GRAY by Sid S. Johnson 
M. LASKER

Morris Lasker, of Galveston, is a veteran who wore the gray and who 
made a gallant and devoted soldier.  He enlisted early in 1861 as a 
private in Company H of the 2nd Texas regiment.  He was transferred 
to Company E in 1864 and continued with the regiment until the war 
came to an end.  It was his good fortune as a soldier to participate 
in the famious capture of Galveston from the enemy by Gen. Magruder 
and his command, Jan. 1, 1863; and as a volunteer he took part in 
the equally daring and brilliant capture of the Federal blockading 
vessels off Sabine Pass.  With the troops under Gen. Dick Taylor 
and Gen. Tom Green, he was on duty in western Louisiana, 
participating in the engagement at Bayou Lafourche and other 
operations in which the Texan troops engaged.  For forty years Mr. 
Lasker has held a high place in the business and financial life of 
Texas, and his associates in Galveston have repeatedly called him 
to posts of responsibility and honor.  He was in 1894 to 1898 State 
Senator and made an enviable name as such.  He is one of the able 
men who have made Galveston the great port of the southwest.