Son of Samuel and Agnes Boaz.
Company A, 9th Texas Cavalry Regiment C.S.A., wounded at the Battle of Davis Mill, according to records of Robert E. Lee Confederate Veterans Camp #158. He escaped prison camp at LaGrange, TN, and returned to his company after some difficulty; he became a scout for the remaining years of the war, returning to Texas from Mississippi, only after earning enough money to do so. At war's end he was penniless, in rags, with a stiff arm.
After the war he lost his left arm in farm machine accident. Despite this and his wounded right arm, he became a leading landowner in Birdville, with investments in a mill, a cotton gin, and the American National Bank.
Company A, 9th Texas Cavalry Regiment C.S.A., wounded at the Battle of Davis Mill, according to records of Robert E. Lee Confederate Veterans Camp #158. He escaped prison camp at LaGrange, TN, and returned to his company after some difficulty; he became a scout for the remaining years of the war, returning to Texas from Mississippi, only after earning enough money to do so. At war's end he was penniless, in rags, with a stiff arm.
After the war he lost his left arm in farm machine accident. Despite this and his wounded right arm, he became a leading landowner in Birdville, with investments in a mill, a cotton gin, and the American National Bank.
Son of Samuel and Agnes Boaz.
Company A, 9th Texas Cavalry Regiment C.S.A., wounded at the Battle of Davis Mill, according to records of Robert E. Lee Confederate Veterans Camp #158. He escaped prison camp at LaGrange, TN, and returned to his company after some difficulty; he became a scout for the remaining years of the war, returning to Texas from Mississippi, only after earning enough money to do so. At war's end he was penniless, in rags, with a stiff arm.
After the war he lost his left arm in farm machine accident. Despite this and his wounded right arm, he became a leading landowner in Birdville, with investments in a mill, a cotton gin, and the American National Bank.
Company A, 9th Texas Cavalry Regiment C.S.A., wounded at the Battle of Davis Mill, according to records of Robert E. Lee Confederate Veterans Camp #158. He escaped prison camp at LaGrange, TN, and returned to his company after some difficulty; he became a scout for the remaining years of the war, returning to Texas from Mississippi, only after earning enough money to do so. At war's end he was penniless, in rags, with a stiff arm.
After the war he lost his left arm in farm machine accident. Despite this and his wounded right arm, he became a leading landowner in Birdville, with investments in a mill, a cotton gin, and the American National Bank.
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