Enlisted as a Private September 12, 1861, age 22, at Dallas, Texas, in Company K, 6th Texas Cavalry, transferrd later to company I, he is among those surrendered at Citronelle, Alabama May 4,1865 and paroled at Jackson, Mississippi, May 13, 1865, residence listed as Athens, Texas

6th Regiment, Texas Cavalry (Wharton, Stone's)

6th Cavalry Regiment [also called 2nd Regiment] was organized with 1,150 men at Dallas, Texas, in September, 1861. Many of the men were from Dallas, McKinney, Waco, Austin, and Lancaster, and Bell County. The unit skirmished in the Indian Territory, fought at Elkhorn Tavern, then moved west of the Mississippi River. It contained 803 effectives in the spring of 1862 and was dismounted during the battles at Corinth and Hatchie Bridge. Here the regiment reported 148 killed, wounded, or missing. Assigned to Ross' Brigade, it served with the Army of Tennessee during the Atlanta Campaign, was active in Tennessee, and ended the war in Mississippi attached to the Department of Alabama, Mississippi, and East Louisiana. The field officers were Colonels Lawrence S. Ross, B. Warren Stone, and Jack Wharton; Lieutenant Colonels John S. Griffith and Peter F. Ross; and Robert M. White and Stephen B. Wilson.

There are some 18 cards in his service record file which may be obtained through the service noted above.

George Martin