CONFEDERATE BIOGRAPHY:  H. S. Seastrunk - Harrison 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, page 306 

H. S. SEASTRUNK.

Hugh Tolen Seastrunk, of Marshall, is a native of the State of South 
Carolina, born in 1844, and removed with his father's family to 
Mississippi, and to Texas in 1857. His mother died in Hines County 
Mississippi, before he went to Texas  In 1862 young Seastrunk enlisted 
in Company C, 17th Texas dismounted Cavalry, and served with gallantry 
during the war. The 17th Texas dismounted Cavalry be­came a part of the 
famous Granbury Texas brigade, in the army of Tennessee. He was a 
private and performed his duty through the war with great distinction 
for gallantry and bravery. He shared the honors of his brigade through 
the continuous struggle of four eventful years and stacked his musket 
when peace was declared. In 1875 Mr. Sea­strunk was married to Mrs. 
Eugenia C. Rush, (nee Wharton). They had born to them four children; 
two boys and two girls, only one living, Mrs. Lela May McAdow, who 
resides in the city of Marshall. Mr. Seastrunk is prosperous and a 
good citizen of Harrison county, obeying the laws of his country, but 
remembers his comrades with affection and knows that the cause for 
which he fought so gallantly was right. Old Confederate soldiers 
know that the principle of local self government was imbeded in the 
constitution of his govern­ment as origally enacted.