The history and geography of Texas as told in county names . 244 The History and Geography of Texas CHAPTER XV. THE WAR BETWEEN THE NORTHERN AND SOUTHERNSECTIONS OF THE UNION— CONFEDERATE MONUMENT, CAPITOL GROUNDS, AUSTIN, TEX. The soldiers and statesmen of the Southern Confederacy whohave been honored by county names are: Camp Lee Stonewall Val Verde Ector Randall Sutton Winkler Gregg Reeves Terry Young Hood Scurry Tom Green Jeff Davis Stephens Upton As Told in County Names 245 CAMP. John La Fayette Camp was born on a farm adjacent to Ely-ton (now a suburb of Birmingham), Ala., in
The history and geography of Texas as told in county names . 244 The History and Geography of Texas CHAPTER XV. THE WAR BETWEEN THE NORTHERN AND SOUTHERNSECTIONS OF THE UNION— CONFEDERATE MONUMENT, CAPITOL GROUNDS, AUSTIN, TEX. The soldiers and statesmen of the Southern Confederacy whohave been honored by county names are: Camp Lee Stonewall Val Verde Ector Randall Sutton Winkler Gregg Reeves Terry Young Hood Scurry Tom Green Jeff Davis Stephens Upton As Told in County Names 245 CAMP. John La Fayette Camp was born on a farm adjacent to Ely-ton (now a suburb of Birmingham), Ala., in 1820; attended thecommon schools and at the ag-e of twenty graduated from theUniversity of Tennessee at Knox-ville. He removed to Texas and lo-cated at Gilmer, in Upshur County,where he taught school and prac-ticed law. He married in 1851 andcontinued the practice of law up to1861. He was then elected Captainof a company from Upshur Countyand joined the Confederate the Fourteenth Texas Regi-ment was organized he was electedColonel, and in that capacity served through the entire periodof the war; he was twice wounded severely, first at Murfrees-boro, Tenn., in the right
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