CONFEDERATE BIOGRAPHY: J. H. MATHIS - Smith County, TX ***************************************************************** Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm Submitted by Peggy Brannon - peggybrannon@hotmail.com 13 October 2001 ***************************************************************** TEXANS WHO WORE THE GRAY by Sid S. Johnson Jas. H. Mathis of Dallas, was born in Jackson County, Michigan, January 14, A. D. 1841. Moved to Texas with his parents in the autumn of 1855. Enlisted in the Confederate army in the Fall of 1861, in Company E, Eighteenth Texas Cavalry, was dismounted at Little Rock, Ark., in the summer of 1862, and served in the Infantry service thereafter. Was detailed in the paymaster's department of the Trans-Mississippi Department in the summer of 1862, and was relieved, after his own persistent and urgent requests, and joined his command at Arkansas Post, where he was surrendered on January 11,1863, and sent ta Camp Douglas, Ill., remaining a prisoner about three months. After being exchanged, the command was sent to the army of Tennessee and became what was finally known as Grandbury's Brigade, Gen. P. R. Cleburne's Division, Army of Tennessee. Was in the battles of Arkansas Post, Chickamauga, Dug Gap, New Hope Church, Kennesaw, Peach Tree Creek, and the battle of Atlanta, in fact was in all the battles and skirmishes in which the brigade was engaged, from Dalton to Atlanta. Was taken prisoner on July 22, 1864, and remained in prison at Camp Chase, Ohio, until just before the close of the war, when he was sent to Richmond, Va., and furloughed on parole until exchanged. Was married to Miss Susan Jackson on December 28, 1865. Has four children, two sons and two daughters, viz: John M., Arthur S., and Misses Flora and Martha Mathis, all of Dallas, Texas. Mr. Mathis takes great interest in the organization of the United Confederate Veterans. Has held the position of President of the Division of Ross, Ector, and Grandbury brigades and Douglas Battery.