CONFEDERATE BIOGRAPHY:  B. A. TRIPLETT

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Submitted by Mary Love Berryman - marylove@tyler.net
28 March 2002 
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TEXANS WHO WORE THE GRAY by Sid S. Johnson - Pages 311-312

B. S. TRIPLETT.

The "Recollections of the Great War" Col. Sparks says:

One of the ostentatious heroes of Chustenahlah, was B. S. Triplett,
the author's friend, and to whom he was indebted for many an act of 
kindness. Brave and loyal "old Tripp," after passing through the 
hundreds of battles and skirmishes of the four years of war, fell 
just at its close by the hands of an assassin. Perbaps it was better 
so! He never lived to look upon the "conquered banner," and to feel 
that experi­ence of death in life that ne had outlived his usefulness. 
Death is generally accounted the ultimate loss; but death often 
relieves life of so many burdens too grievous to be borne; and, it 
is doubtful, if we should not look upon the white horse and his 
specter rider as friends of humanity, in­stead of remorseless foes.