CONFEDERATE BIOGRAPHY:  GEN. L. M. LEWIS - Dallas Co, TX

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TEXANS WHO WORE THE GRAY by Sid S. Johnson - Page 298 

GEN. L. M. LEWIS.

T. W. Cassell, of Independence, Mo., Confederate Veteran, answering 
an inquiry for some information about Gen. Levin M. Lewis, states that 
he was a native of Maryland and moved to Clay county, Mo., in the late 
fifties.  He was elected colonel of the 3rd Missouri Cavalry at the 
call of Gov. Claiborne F. Jackson in April, 1861: and after finishing 
the term of enlistment (twelve months), the regiment was mustered out 
of service. He then reenlisted for the war in Co. A, 7th (afterwards 
16th Missouri) Infantry, Parson's Brigade, Trans-Mississippi department, 
at Maysville, Ark., in June 1862, and was elected captain of the 
company. He was promoted to lieutenant-colonel of the 16th regiment 
about December, 1862, at Camp Mazard, nine miles below Fort Smith, Ark., 
and was promoted in January to Colonel of the same regiment.

Colonel Lewis was disabled by a piece of shell in the battle of Helena, 
Ark., July 4, 1863, after capturing the middle fort on graveyard hill, 
and falling into the hands of the enemy, was taken to Johnson's Island, 
where he remained a prisoner of war until released by special exchange. 
He returned to Richmond in September or October, 1864, rejoined his 
command at Camden, Ark., in November with a brigadier's commission 
from President Davis, and was assigned to the command of Parson's 
Brigade, Price's Division, which position he held until our surrender 
at Shreveport, May 23, 1865.

Gen. Lewis died in Los Angeles, Cal., in 1887, while there temporarily 
for his health. His home was in Dallas, Texas, where he was pastor of 
the First Methodist church. No more gallant officer ever led men to 
battle.  I assisted him in preparing a history of the Sixteenth 
Missouri Infantry.