While I have posted quite a number of messages and replies on various other boards, this is my first post for my home state. I would love to find a family Texas WBTS connection.

My gggg grandfather was Conrad Isenhour. The name is subject to many variations - Isenhour, Isenhower, Eisenhower, and Eisenhour. The Isenhours were mainly in East Tennessee during the mid 1800s, and Unionists. Conrad was supposedly almost lynched in the partisan war going on there. His son, my ggg grandfather Ireneus, was first in the CSA 62nd Tennessee, a regiment known to have many Unionists who joined to avoid conscription, and ended the war in a Federal unit.

I recently found out, through an Isenhour family historian, that one of Conrad's brothers, Moses, moved to Texas before the war. This information states Moses moved to Bosque County, and was a county judge. (I checked, and there is a a Moses "Isenhower" in the 1860 census in Bosque County, age 36). The family historian does not give much information on Moses, but does state that he was commissioned by the governor to operate a "tan yard," which it states was the only such one in Texas. The information also states that Moses served on Galveston Island under General John B. Magruder.

I have checked the various Eisenhour spellings on the Soldiers and Sailors site, but find no listing for a Moses Isenhour. Does anyone have any sourses on Galveston during the war that would confirm Moses was there, and in what capacity.

Per the 1860 census, Moses had a 14 year old son, whose name appears to start with the letters "Lim__". I would also be interested if he served in any capacity in the war.