"The Merkel Mail" Friday, May 26, 1916 Vol. 23 No. 17:
News of Noodle - E.J. Calloway Dead
Mr. & Mrs. Dock Calloway and Mrs. A.J. Barbee were called Saturday morning to the bedside of their father E.J. Calloway, formerly of this place, but now of Matador. He has been very ill but a short while. The sad news came to us Monday stating that he passed away that morning and would be buried at that place Monday afternoon. There will be many who will regret to learn of his death for he lived in our community for some 16 years and was well known. He is survived by a wife and nine children.
"Reminiscences of the Boys in Gray, 1861-1865, pg. 112 & 113"
E. J. Callaway, Noodle, Texas - Born in Mississippi March 22, 1845. I enlisted in the Confederate Army in 1864 in Hill County, Texas, as a private in Company D, Nineteenth Texas Cavalry. My first Captain was John B. Williams, who was promoted to Major and then to Colonel. I was in the scouting service, mainly up and down Red River and Mississippi River and in Arkansas. Was not wounded, but had my ankle knocked out of place by an accident. Was never captured. The only promotion I had was as Sergeant of Provost Guards, which I held for a short time. Was at Mansfield and Pleasant Hill, where Bank's army was defeated and pursued down Red River. More or less skirmishing followed till the Yellow Bayou fight, where many were lost on both sides. Capt. Joe Weir of Hill County, as brave a man as ever lived, fell here. I can say that I had a very good time. The officers were very good to me, probably on account of my size. I weighed at the time I enlisted 105 pounds and came out weighting 110.
News of Noodle - E.J. Calloway Dead
Mr. & Mrs. Dock Calloway and Mrs. A.J. Barbee were called Saturday morning to the bedside of their father E.J. Calloway, formerly of this place, but now of Matador. He has been very ill but a short while. The sad news came to us Monday stating that he passed away that morning and would be buried at that place Monday afternoon. There will be many who will regret to learn of his death for he lived in our community for some 16 years and was well known. He is survived by a wife and nine children.
"Reminiscences of the Boys in Gray, 1861-1865, pg. 112 & 113"
E. J. Callaway, Noodle, Texas - Born in Mississippi March 22, 1845. I enlisted in the Confederate Army in 1864 in Hill County, Texas, as a private in Company D, Nineteenth Texas Cavalry. My first Captain was John B. Williams, who was promoted to Major and then to Colonel. I was in the scouting service, mainly up and down Red River and Mississippi River and in Arkansas. Was not wounded, but had my ankle knocked out of place by an accident. Was never captured. The only promotion I had was as Sergeant of Provost Guards, which I held for a short time. Was at Mansfield and Pleasant Hill, where Bank's army was defeated and pursued down Red River. More or less skirmishing followed till the Yellow Bayou fight, where many were lost on both sides. Capt. Joe Weir of Hill County, as brave a man as ever lived, fell here. I can say that I had a very good time. The officers were very good to me, probably on account of my size. I weighed at the time I enlisted 105 pounds and came out weighting 110.
"The Merkel Mail" Friday, May 26, 1916 Vol. 23 No. 17:
News of Noodle - E.J. Calloway Dead
Mr. & Mrs. Dock Calloway and Mrs. A.J. Barbee were called Saturday morning to the bedside of their father E.J. Calloway, formerly of this place, but now of Matador. He has been very ill but a short while. The sad news came to us Monday stating that he passed away that morning and would be buried at that place Monday afternoon. There will be many who will regret to learn of his death for he lived in our community for some 16 years and was well known. He is survived by a wife and nine children.
"Reminiscences of the Boys in Gray, 1861-1865, pg. 112 & 113"
E. J. Callaway, Noodle, Texas - Born in Mississippi March 22, 1845. I enlisted in the Confederate Army in 1864 in Hill County, Texas, as a private in Company D, Nineteenth Texas Cavalry. My first Captain was John B. Williams, who was promoted to Major and then to Colonel. I was in the scouting service, mainly up and down Red River and Mississippi River and in Arkansas. Was not wounded, but had my ankle knocked out of place by an accident. Was never captured. The only promotion I had was as Sergeant of Provost Guards, which I held for a short time. Was at Mansfield and Pleasant Hill, where Bank's army was defeated and pursued down Red River. More or less skirmishing followed till the Yellow Bayou fight, where many were lost on both sides. Capt. Joe Weir of Hill County, as brave a man as ever lived, fell here. I can say that I had a very good time. The officers were very good to me, probably on account of my size. I weighed at the time I enlisted 105 pounds and came out weighting 110.
News of Noodle - E.J. Calloway Dead
Mr. & Mrs. Dock Calloway and Mrs. A.J. Barbee were called Saturday morning to the bedside of their father E.J. Calloway, formerly of this place, but now of Matador. He has been very ill but a short while. The sad news came to us Monday stating that he passed away that morning and would be buried at that place Monday afternoon. There will be many who will regret to learn of his death for he lived in our community for some 16 years and was well known. He is survived by a wife and nine children.
"Reminiscences of the Boys in Gray, 1861-1865, pg. 112 & 113"
E. J. Callaway, Noodle, Texas - Born in Mississippi March 22, 1845. I enlisted in the Confederate Army in 1864 in Hill County, Texas, as a private in Company D, Nineteenth Texas Cavalry. My first Captain was John B. Williams, who was promoted to Major and then to Colonel. I was in the scouting service, mainly up and down Red River and Mississippi River and in Arkansas. Was not wounded, but had my ankle knocked out of place by an accident. Was never captured. The only promotion I had was as Sergeant of Provost Guards, which I held for a short time. Was at Mansfield and Pleasant Hill, where Bank's army was defeated and pursued down Red River. More or less skirmishing followed till the Yellow Bayou fight, where many were lost on both sides. Capt. Joe Weir of Hill County, as brave a man as ever lived, fell here. I can say that I had a very good time. The officers were very good to me, probably on account of my size. I weighed at the time I enlisted 105 pounds and came out weighting 110.
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