D. B. Thomas appointed as a Surgeon, Medical Department, State of Texas, to report to the 6th Texas Regiment, October 28, 1861 by Gen'l. McCulloch, dropped July 1, 1862, assigned Assistant Surgeon, Hindman's Division, 4th Brigade, District of Arkansas September 15, 1862
M331: Compiled Service Records of Confederate General and Staff Officers, and Nonregimental Enlisted Men
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GOOD, JOHN JAY (1827–1882). John Jay Good, judge, soldier, and mayor of Dallas, the son of George Good, was born in Monroe County, Mississippi, on July 12, 1827, and reared in Lowndes County, where his father worked as a shoemaker and farmer. He attended Cumberland University in Lebanon, Tennessee, and read law in Columbus, Mississippi, before his admittance to the bar in 1849. He practiced law in Marion County, Alabama, and worked on his father's farm before 1851, when he headed to Texas with his patrimony of $2,000 and settled in Dallas. In 1852 he was elected to command the Dallas citizens' militia group in the Hedgcoxe War. Good married Susan Anna Floyd on July 25, 1854; they had six children. In 1859 he was appointed an official visitor to the United States Military Academy at West Point, but with the outbreak of the Civil War he organized a Confederate artillery battery. He fought as a captain with Benjamin McCulloch's brigade at Elkhorn, was wounded, and was then appointed presiding judge of the Confederate military courts of Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia, with rank of colonel. Upon his return to Texas after the war, he was elected judge of the Sixteenth Judicial District, Dallas, but was removed by Gen. Philip Sheridan as an "impediment to Reconstruction." Good practiced law in Dallas as a member of the firm of Good, Bower, and Coombes. In 1880 he was elected mayor of Dallas. He was a Mason and Odd Fellow. He died on September 17, 1882, and was buried in the Odd Fellows Cemetery in Dallas.
BIBLIOGRAPHY: Biographical Encyclopedia of Texas (New York: Southern, 1880). William S. Speer and John H. Brown, eds., Encyclopedia of the New West (Marshall, Texas: United States Biographical Publishing, 1881; rpt., Easley, South Carolina: Southern Historical Press, 1978). Vertical Files, Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, University of Texas at Austin.
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Cannon Smoke: The Letters of Captain John J. Good, Good-Douglas Texas Battery, CSA
Edited by Lester Newton Fitzhugh
Hill Junior College Press, 1971
Texian Press, Waco, Texas
This volume is the correspondence between John Jay Good, an early Dallas Lawyer and militiaman who took his militia battery to war in 1861, and his wife Susan Anna, who lived at the time on her father's farmstead in what is now East Dallas. Captain Good and his artillery battery accompanied the 3rd Texas Cavalry through the Indian Territory to Northern Arkansas where it was incorporated into the Confederate division of of Brigadier General Ben McCulloch. The climactic event of this campaign was the Battle of Pea ridge. The record of this correspondence throws light on the battle and the events leading up to it.