CONFEDERATE BIOGRAPHY:  JAMES WILBORN PERRY - Smith County, TX

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Submitted by Mary Love Berryman - marylove@tyler.net
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TEXANS WHO WORE THE GRAY by Sid S. Johnson

JAMES WILBORN PERRY.

J. Wilborn Perry is a native of Pickens district South Carolina, born 
May 25, 1825. Removed to Texas in 1853 and settled near Tyler, Texas. 
Joined company H, 3rd Texas Cavalry in 1861. Discharged at Corinth, 
Miss, in 1862, and the same year joined Tranham's South Carolina 
Volunteers and served in Virginia the last year of the war. 
Surrender­ed in 1865 and returned to Texas. He has been a farmer and 
a man of good influence. Post office address, Tyler, Texas.