CONFEDERATE BIOGRAPHY: JOHN H. PICKENS - Mineral Wells, TX ***************************************************************** Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm Submitted by Mary Love Berryman - marylove@tyler.net 28 August 2001 ***************************************************************** TEXANS WHO WORE THE GRAY by Sid S. Johnson JOHN H. PICKENS. John Henry Pickens was born in Marion, Perry county Alabama, February 1, 1842. Was educated at the State Military Academy at Tuscaloosa, Ala. Died at Mineral Wells, Texas, May 13, 1905. He enlisted in company C, 40th Alabama Infantry in March 1862, and was elected 1st lieuten­ant and in the following May he was promoted to captain, in which capacity he served with zeal and honor until January 1865, when he was appointed adjutant and Inspector-General of Holtclaw's brigade, which, upon its return from Hood's Nashville campaign, was with other commands at Spanish Fort and Mobile until the surrender. He was made a prison­er when Vicksburg capitulated. He was with Johnston in the Georgia campaign and with Hood in the fated Tennessee campaign. He was a fearless and gallant officer and a de­scendent of the famous South Carolina Pickens family. His grandfather, Gov. Andrew Pickens, was a general in the Continental army, and his cousin, Frank Pickens, was gov­ernor of South Carolina during the Confederate struggle. In 1890 he married Mrs. Eva Polk Bingham. He removed to Texas during reconstruction days.