CONFEDERATE BIOGRAPHY: H. P. Mabry - Jefferson, TX ***************************************************************** Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm Submitted by Doris Peirce - ginlu@charter.net - 14 December 2001 **************************************************************** TEXANS WHO WORE THE GRAY by Sid S. Johnson, p. 98 H. P. MABRY H. P. Mabry, of Jefferson, was born in Carroll county, Georgia, Oct. 27, 1829. He was educated at the University of Tennessee, and then studied law with T. J. & J. H. Rodgers in Jefferson, being admitted to the bar in 1856 and soon attaining a large and successful practice. He was in the Texas legislature in 1856-57 and again in 1859-60. In May 1861 he served in the expedition that captured Forts Washita and Arbuckle in the Indian Territory, and a few weeks later as Captain of Company G he joined the 3rd Texas cavalry, commanded by Col. Elkanah Greer, and was in the battle of Oak Hills on Aug. 10, he was in the battle of Elkhorn at Corinth. In 1862 he became lieutenant colonel of the regiment, and a month later its colonel. In the battle of Iuka he was badly wounded in three places. In 1863 he took command of Whitfield's brigade composing Whitfield's legion, 3rd and 9th Texas cavalry, and Croft's Georgia battery. He remained in command until March 1864 when he was commissioned brigadier general and assigned to command of the 4th, 6th and 38th Mississippi regiments the 14th Mississippi and Louisiana regiments, the 14th and 16th Consolidated Arkansas regiment and several batteries. He served under Gen. Forrest and Gen. Hood and added new laurels to Texan valor and courage. After the war he resumed the practice of law in Jefferson. In 1854 he married Miss Abbie haywood. Their son, W. H. Mabry, was adjutant general of Texas for eight years, and upon the outbreak of the Spanish American War was made Colonel of the 1st Texas Infantry in Gen. Fitzhugh Lee's corps. Col. Mabry was soon placed in command of a brigade, one of the regiments composing it being Col. W. J. Bryan's of Nebraska. Col. Mabry died in Havana, Cuba, in Dec. 1898 while in command of his brigade. The subject of this sketch died in Fort Worth in 1885.