A history of Texas and Texans . , it should be noted were not slave holders. Therewere only two children in the family of Elijah B. Hay-nie and wife. The older was W. M. Haynie, who diedin Kaufman county, Texas, in 1911, and by his twowives, Mary Moore, and Alice Caldwell left a family ofchildren, w. M. Haynie was at one time sheriff ofKaufman countv, and for a number of years operateda gin at Kaufman. The mother of Houston Haynie diedabout 1860. His father had a number of brothers andsisters and among the brothers were Charles, who spenthis life in Anderson district of South Carolina; Martina
A history of Texas and Texans . , it should be noted were not slave holders. Therewere only two children in the family of Elijah B. Hay-nie and wife. The older was W. M. Haynie, who diedin Kaufman county, Texas, in 1911, and by his twowives, Mary Moore, and Alice Caldwell left a family ofchildren, w. M. Haynie was at one time sheriff ofKaufman countv, and for a number of years operateda gin at Kaufman. The mother of Houston Haynie diedabout 1860. His father had a number of brothers andsisters and among the brothers were Charles, who spenthis life in Anderson district of South Carolina; Martinand Britton, both of whom moved to Alabama, andlived there until death; George, who died in NorthGeorgia; Reuben, who probably lived in the same local-ity; Gideon H., who came to Mississippi at the same timewith his brother Elijah and .lied there. There werethree sisters, but their names and facts of their existenceare not known. Houston Havnie grew up in the home of his grand-father Caldwell, and his early career was spent on a. ^c^^^U^ 0Ya^^u!i^ TEXAS AND TEXANS 21( farm, during nbioh time he received the advantages ofcountry schools. AVhen he was seventeen years old in1862, he enlisted in Company G of the Forty-fifth Mis-sissippi Infantry under Captain John N. Sloan andCol. A. B. Hardeastle. Later he was under the com-mand of Col. W. H. H. Tyson, in Lowreys Brigade,Pat Cleyburne s Division of Hardee s corps, Army of theTennessee. His regiment joined the army at Tullahome,Tennessee, and took part in many of the famous Atlan-tic campaign. He was at Chickamauga, Mission Ridge,Ringgold Gap, Resaea, New Hope Church, KennesawJlountain, Atlanta, Jonesboro, and was in the big en-gagement of the twenty-second of July, 1864, beforeAtlanta. With Hood s army, he went back into Tennes-see, and captured many Federal prisoners on the way toFranklin. H<- v\.-i- .•n^:iL;.d in detail duty at the time of the bat-tle .il , :ind immediately thereafter his com-pany \ (lisliiihl
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