Confederate Biography :  EDWIN S. ROWLAND, Smith County, TX 

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TEXANS WHO WORE THE GRAY by Sid S. Johnson,  pg. 154 

Edwin S. Rowland, of Tyler, was a loyal private soldier from the 
state of North Carolina.  His father and Mother, Horace H. and 
Martha W. (Cheatham) Rowland, were prominent people of the old North 
State.  The subject of this sketch was born in Henderson, Vance 
county, North Carolina, September 22nd, 1846, and enlisted in the
1st North Carolina regiment of Infantry in 1861, when a mere boy.  
In August, 1862, he was transferred to the 5th Cavalry and remained 
with that command until the surrender at the close of the war.  On 
Saturday before the surrender of Gen. Lee he carried a dispatch to 
Jefferson Davis, who was then at Clover Station on the Richmond and 
Daville railway.  This was the last dispatch sent by Gen. Lee to the
president of the Confedracy, and perhaps told of the surrender of 
the army of Virginia soon to follow.  He it was who bore the sad 
message to the head of the struggling government that lived four 
eventful years in the world's history.  What the message contained, 
young Rowland, of course, did not know.  The events that shortly 
took place at Appomattox would seem to indicate what that messge 
from the great Southern chieftain contained.  Mr. Rowland is now a 
citizen of Tyler, Texas, and a leading business man.  During the 
war he was a member of Barringer's brigade of the army of Northern 
Virginia, standing at his post until the end came the 7th day of 
May, 1865.  He removed to Texas in February, 1877, and has since 
resided in this state.  Was married to Miss Sallie J. Rowland, of 
Henderson county, Kentucky, Feb. 7th, 1870.  They reared one 
daughter now the wife of G. A. Chandler, of Fort Worth, Texas.