Jerry,
Where is Taos Texas? Is it in Van Zandt County Texas? We Thought Richard S. Lyles went to Van Zandt Co., to enlist in the Confederate Army. He owned some land in Van Zandt and his wife and son (my wife's grandfather b. i860) went there from Rusk Co., in a wagon, when he was a young man, to dispose of the land. I think the 10th Texas was at Spanish Fort when Capt R.S. Lyles was killed.