CONFEDERATE BIOGRAPHY: SOLOMON LASSETER - Smith County, TX ***************************************************************** Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm Submitted by Peggy Brannon - peggybrannon@hotmail.com 02 November 2001 ***************************************************************** TEXANS WHO WORE THE GRAY by Sid S. Johnson Solomon Lasseter, born in Griffin, Ga., Sept. 18, 1884, and removed to Texas in 1854. Enlisted at Pine Hill, Rusk county, Texas, in company C, 1st, Texas infantry, being one of the regiments that composed Hood's Texas Brigade in the Army of Northern Virginia, hence saw much active flghting. He participated in the battles of his brigade from Yorktown to Chickamauga (except Chancellorsville) and in the last mentioned battle was seriously wounded and sent to Griffin, Georgia hospital, until his recovery. Occupying the store house his father, Dr. Lasseter, had done business in before his removal to Texat;. He was detailed then in the commissary service at Macon, Ga., and surrendered at King's Tree, South Carolina. Married Miss Nettie Glaze, in Rusk county, Texas, December 23, 1868. Removed to Navarro county in 1872 and to Tyler in 1884. His son, H. E. Lasseter, is a prominent young lawyer of Tyler.