4 Jun 2024 8:34 am
My great grandfather joined the First Texas Heavy Artillery Unit, Company K in 1861. He was the ripe old age of 12, born in 1849. He was a teamster that drove supply wagons from Galveston to Mclennon county (Waco). Toward the end of the war he was a company cook.
At the time of the war no one in my family owned any slaves or farmed cotton.