CONFEDERATE BIOGRAPHY: JAMES WILSON - 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

JAMES WILSON.

James Wilson, born in Mississippi, June 27th, 1835, and removed to 
Texas with his father's family in 1846, and settled in Smith county.  
Enlisted in June 1861 in Co. K, 3rd Texas Cavalry in Ross' Texas 
Brigade. He was in the battles of Oak Hills, Elk Horn Tavern, 
Farmington, Iuka, Corinth, Jackson, Holly Springs, Thompson's Station, 
in the Georgia campaign and with Hood at Franklin. He made a dashing 
cavalryman and was with his command to the end. He is a farmer and a 
good citizen, but at this writing he is seriously afflicted with 
rheumatism and has not walked for a number of years, but bears up 
under this misfortune like a true Southern Christian gentleman.  He 
has been married twice: First, marriage, Miss Higginbotham, and the 
2nd, Miss Quales.  He lives near Arp, Texas.