Jim, you and I appear to have this episode in common. Was visiting my eldest daughter in Austin summer before last and also wound up in the state cemetery, where I took pix of over 100 Confederate markers, photoshopped them to redeem my lousy photography and gave them to the former president of the former SHAPE organization. Unfortunately, that org and those pix are lying arm in arm, CSS Alabama-style, at the bottom of Davey Jones's Locker.

But in that Austin cemetery is also a grand monument with a bronze bust of Maj Gen John Austin Wharton, who was murdered within days of war's end by Col. George Baylor--who, like his Union counterpart, Jefferson C. Davis, murdered a superior officer and beat the rap.

Now that's a study in contrasts: personal honor--not celebrity money--is what swayed the juries in those days!

Anyway, our mutual friend E D Wilson has researched this story and written a magnificent monograph of the incident.

Oh yeah, somebody named Tom Landry is also buried there, whatever his claim to fame is.