CONFEDERATE BIOGRAPHY: L. H. OLIVER - Bell & Dallas County, TX 

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TEXANS WHO WORE THE GRAY by Sid S. Johnson

L. H. OLIVER

The following is a clipping from Camp Sterling Price of Dallas,
Texas:  "Comrade Oliver was born in Alabama July 22, 1840.  At the 
age of 7 or 8 years, with his parents, he moved to Louisiana and 
there resided until the tocsin of war sounded in 1861, which 
precipitated the four years' fratricidal conflict between the North 
and the South.  On Oct. 20, 1861, he enlisted as a private in Co. C, 
19th Louisiana Infantry, Volunteer, C. S. A., for a term of one year.  
He was in the Second Army Corpse, Army of the Mississippi, and at 
the battle of Shiloh, April 6 an 7, 1862, he was reported among the 
missing, and we lose the record until April 4, 1863, when we learn 
from a letter of his, dated April 4, 1907, that he was severely 
wounded and taken prisoner, presumably at Vicksburg, from which wound 
he suffered continually until his death.  He removed to Texas in 
1871 and settled in Bell county, where he resided until 1887, when 
he removed to Dallas county, where he resided until his death, 
July 27, 1907.  A sister and a brother survive him:  Mrs. W. P.
Harrell of El Paso, Texas; a brother in Coryell county, Texas, 
and one in Louisiana.