Confederate Biography : D. V. SHARP, Smith county, TX

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Submitted by Susie McFarland Lemin slemin46@yahoo.com
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TEXANS WHO WORE THE GRAY by Sid S. Johnson, p. 167

Drura Vista Sharp, of Swan, was born in Abbeville, S. C., 
1, 1847.  He enlisted during the third year of the war at the age of 
sixteen in Co. B, Williams' battalion of South Carolina infantry and 
served until the surrender of Gen. Joesph E. Johnston in North 
Carolina, taking part in the last battle fought by that great commander, 
at Bentonville.  After the war he returned home, where in 1871 he was
 married to Miss Bettie Pickle, of Greenville S. C. He removed to Texas
in 1889, and is now a leading citizen of Smith county.  Mr. Sharp is a 
farmer and fruit grower and by energy and thrift has made a comfortable 
living for himself and family.  He is a man of high intelligence and 
stands always for the advancement and prosperity of his community.