Confederate Officer. Van Zandt served as a Major in the 7th Texas Infantry, Confederate States Army. He also served in the 13th Texas Legislature and the Constitutional Convention of 1875. Parents were Isaac and Frances Cooke (Lipscomb) Van Zandt.
Name: Major K M Vanzandt
[Khleber Miller Van Zandt]
Birth Date: 8 Nov 1836
Birth Place: Tennessee
Gender: Male
Race: White
Spouse: Mrs K M Van Zandt
Father: Isaac Van Zandt
Mother: Frances Lipscoe
Age at Death: 93
Death Date: 19 Mar 1930
Death Place: Fort Worth, Tarrant, Texas, USA
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VAN ZANDT, K. M.
K. M. Van Zandt, was born in Franklin County, Tenn., Nov. 7, 1836. His father, Isaac Van Zandt, of Harrison County, was a member of congress of the Republic of Texas in 1840-42, and in 1842 was appointed by President Sam Houston to the Minister Plenipotentiary from the Texas republic to the United States remaining in Washington until the treaty of annexation was negotiated when he returned to Texas and resumed the practice of law in Marshall. He was a member of the convention that framed the first constitution for the state of Texas in 1845, and he died in Houston in 1874 while a candidate for governor. K. M. Van Zandt was reared in Marshall, Texas, and was graduated from Franklin College, Tenn., in 1854. Four years later he was admitted to the bar and began the practice of law in Marshall. In 1861 when the war began he organized and was elected captain of a company that became a part of the 7th Texas infantry. He was promoted to major of his regiment in Jan. 1863. He took part in the battles of Fort Donalson, Port Hudson, Raymond, Miss., Jackson, Chickamauga, Missionary Ridge, and in numerous smaller engagements. He was surrendered with his command at Fort Donalson, Feb. 16, 1862, and was a prisoner for seven months at Camp Chase and Johnson's Island, and was exchanged at Vicksburg, Miss., in Sept. 1862. When he left the army at the close of the war he had not a dollar. Removing now to Fort Worth, Texas, he began merchandising and was quite successful. In 1874 he entered the banking business and from that day to this has been esteemed one of the brainiest financiers in Texas. He has ever been a tower of strength to his home town. In politics Gen. Van Zandt is a democrat, and he represented in the 18th legislature in 1873 the counties of Dallas, Collin and Tarrant. He was married in 1856 in Harrison county to Miss Minerva Peete and by her had three children, the oldest child, Florence married Hon. Hyde Jennings, of Forth Worth. In 1869 he married Miss Mattie Peete, sister of his first wife, by whom he had five children. He has for many years been Major-General of the Texas Division of the United Confederate Veterans and is greatly beloved by all of his old comrades who wore the gray. (Source: Texans Who Wore The Gray Vol. 1, Sid S. Johnson, Tyler, Tex, 1907 )