CONFEDERATE BIOGRAPHY: LEADERS OF SECESSION IN TEXAS 

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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 
LEADERS OF SECESSION IN TEXAS

From "Confederate Military History" we take the following in 
Vol. XI, of some of the prominent men who favored secession, 
showed their sincerity by entering the military service.  It is 
from the pen of Gov. O. M. Roberts, as follows:
"Signers for the call for the convention subsequently held rank 
as follows: John Gregg, Thomas Green, John A. Wharton, Henry E. 
McCulloch, brigadier generals; R.Q.Mills, Edward Clark, C.M. 
Winkler, Geo. Baylor, Geo. Flournoy, John R. Baylor, colonels, 
Wm. Bird, lieutenant colonel; D. M. Pendergast, John J. Good, 
W. C. Pitts, captains; and Thos. J. Chambers, aide de camp to a 
general in Virginia in the first part of the war, though advanced 
in years.  Of the members of the convention who became officers 
besides John Gregg and John A. Wharton, were Allison Nelson, Wm. P. 
Hardeman, Jerome B. Robertson, Wm. Scurry, Joseph L. Hogg, brigadier 
generals; James H. Rogers and John Henry Brown, adjutant generals; 
Colonels A. T. Rainey, John S. Ford, Wm. P. Rogers, P. N. Luckett, 
Thos. S. Lubbock, B. F. Terry, A. M. Hobby, E. B. Nichols, J. J. 
Diamond, Oran M. Roberts, Geo. Flournoy, W. B. Ochiltree, Eli H. 
Baxter, Isham Chisum, Thos. A. Anderson, M. F. Locke, Robert S. 
Gould, Tignal W. Jones; Lieutenant Colonels A. H. Davidson, Thos. 
C. Frost, A. G. Clopton, Philip A. Work, John Ireland, A. J. 
Nicholson, Wm. W. Diamond, Jas. E. Shepard, P. T. Herbert, John C. 
Robertson, C. A. Abercrombie, Wm. H. Johnson, Wm. M. Neyland; 
Majors Geo. W. Chilton, C. M. Leseur, J. W. Throckmorton; Captains 
Richard Coke, Amazi Bradshaw, Wm. Clark, Drury Fields, Robert 
Graham, J. W. Hutchinson, Lewis W. Moore, W. R. Peck, C. M. 
Pendergast, Wilkins Hunt, Jas. M. Harrison, Gilchrist McKay, 
Sam A. Wilson; Lieutenants Richard L. Askew, J. E. Cook, John R. 
Hays and A. P. Shuford.

Among the members of the legislature were Colonels J. H. Parsons, 
Richard B. Hubbard, N. H. Darnell, D. B. Culberson, P. H. Mabry, 
A. F. Crawford, R. H. Taylor; Lieutenant Colonels E. E. Lott, 
J. H. Manly; and Majors Matt Dale and Wm. Wortham.  Doubtless 
there were many others of each class referred to that entered the 
army of whom no record or other reliable information has been 
obtained."