CONFEDERATE BIOGRAPHY:  JACK WHARTON - Smith 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, p. 138.

JACK WHARTON.

Jack Wharton was a native of Maryland, moved to Kan­sas where the 
politics ran so high that no Southerner with a sign of pride could 
rise in his profession.  He studied law in his native state and made 
a fair success in the profession. He decided to become a citizen of 
the great South-west and in 1859 60 he located on the lines of 
Kaufman and Van Zandt counties and established an extensive horse 
ranch de­voting his time to the raising of good stock.  In 1861 he 
joined as a private soldier, a company raised in that imme­diate section, 
and when this company was attached to the 6th Texas Cavalry he was 
elected captain, henceforth the history of this command was connected 
with the brigades of Whitfield, Herbert, Mabry and Ross Texas brigade 
in the army of Tennessee. When Col. Ross was made Brigadier General. 
Col. Wharton, who had been elected lieutenant-colonel, was made 
colonel of the sixth.  At the conclusion of the war he was connected 
with the Southern Pacific rail­way and made his headquarters in New 
Orleans.  He left the railway service and held many positions of 
trust: such as tax collector, secretary of state, adjutant general 
and clerk of the superior court in the state of Louisiana. Col. 
Wharton had an attractive personality, was a good speaker, a fine 
conversationalist and possessed a remarkable amount of wit.  A 
splendid genial fellow he made friends wherever he went.  He died 
some years ago in New Or­leans, and we understand was buried in that 
city.  He never was captured by Cupids darts, so never married.