CONFEDERATE BIOGRAPHY:  J. R. WALLACE - Smith County, TX

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TEXANS WHO WORE THE GRAY by Sid S. Johnson - Page 96 

J. R. WALLACE.

Joseph R. Wallace was born in the state of North Caro­lina, and removed 
to Texas in Sept. 1868 and settled in Smith county. Enlisted in Company 
E, 4th North Carolina Cavalry and served in army of Northern Virginia. 
He was captured at Petersburg, Va, in April 1865.  Participated in the 
following battles: Gettysburg, Petersburg, Winchest­er, Spottsylvania, 
Federicksburg, Antietam, seven days fight around Richmond, Harper's 
Ferry and other lesser engagments  Went around Gen. Grant's left 60 
miles and capt­ured the 11th Pennsylvania cavalry and a lot of beef 
cattle, the prizes being safely landed in the confederate lines by the 
command to which he belonged.  His regiment supported John B. Gordon 
at Petersburg on the 28th of March, 1865, where the Federal lines were 
broken,  Mr. Wallace is a farmer and resides near Winona, Texas.