John Hannibal Carson
John H. Carson enlisted with Col. W.P. Lane's Regiment, Texas 1st Partisan Cavalry, Capt. Durran's Company K. John served with his unit until the end of the war. Throughout the Civil War, John kept a detailed journal of his experiences.
The Texas 1st Cavalry Regiment, Partisan Rangers (also called Lane's Regiment, Lane's Rangers) participated in the following engagements:
Prairie Grove, December 7, 1862, Donaldsville (reserve), June 28, 1863, Cox's Plantation, July 12-13, 1863, Bayou Bourbeau, November 3, 1863 (John's brother-in-law, William R. Edwards was wounded during this battle.) Red River Campaign, March-May 1864, Mansfield, April 8, 1864,
Pleasant Hill, April 9, 1864, Monticello, September 10, 1864.
John Carson was a hard working farmer who cut down trees, built a log cabin to house his family, cleared the land and tilled the soil of East Texas. John and his wife, Elizabeth, were the parents of 10 children. The names of eight of their children began with "X" – Xerxes, Xenophon, Xanthus, Xylander, Ximenes, Xuthus, Xystus and Xenia.
John H. Carson died quietly in his sleep at the home of his daughter, Martha, in Hopkins Co., TX on March 5, 1911.
Source: http://www.angelfire.com/tx3/RandysTexas/carson.html
John H. Carson enlisted with Col. W.P. Lane's Regiment, Texas 1st Partisan Cavalry, Capt. Durran's Company K. John served with his unit until the end of the war. Throughout the Civil War, John kept a detailed journal of his experiences.
The Texas 1st Cavalry Regiment, Partisan Rangers (also called Lane's Regiment, Lane's Rangers) participated in the following engagements:
Prairie Grove, December 7, 1862, Donaldsville (reserve), June 28, 1863, Cox's Plantation, July 12-13, 1863, Bayou Bourbeau, November 3, 1863 (John's brother-in-law, William R. Edwards was wounded during this battle.) Red River Campaign, March-May 1864, Mansfield, April 8, 1864,
Pleasant Hill, April 9, 1864, Monticello, September 10, 1864.
John Carson was a hard working farmer who cut down trees, built a log cabin to house his family, cleared the land and tilled the soil of East Texas. John and his wife, Elizabeth, were the parents of 10 children. The names of eight of their children began with "X" – Xerxes, Xenophon, Xanthus, Xylander, Ximenes, Xuthus, Xystus and Xenia.
John H. Carson died quietly in his sleep at the home of his daughter, Martha, in Hopkins Co., TX on March 5, 1911.
Source: http://www.angelfire.com/tx3/RandysTexas/carson.html
John Hannibal Carson
John H. Carson enlisted with Col. W.P. Lane's Regiment, Texas 1st Partisan Cavalry, Capt. Durran's Company K. John served with his unit until the end of the war. Throughout the Civil War, John kept a detailed journal of his experiences.
The Texas 1st Cavalry Regiment, Partisan Rangers (also called Lane's Regiment, Lane's Rangers) participated in the following engagements:
Prairie Grove, December 7, 1862, Donaldsville (reserve), June 28, 1863, Cox's Plantation, July 12-13, 1863, Bayou Bourbeau, November 3, 1863 (John's brother-in-law, William R. Edwards was wounded during this battle.) Red River Campaign, March-May 1864, Mansfield, April 8, 1864,
Pleasant Hill, April 9, 1864, Monticello, September 10, 1864.
John Carson was a hard working farmer who cut down trees, built a log cabin to house his family, cleared the land and tilled the soil of East Texas. John and his wife, Elizabeth, were the parents of 10 children. The names of eight of their children began with "X" – Xerxes, Xenophon, Xanthus, Xylander, Ximenes, Xuthus, Xystus and Xenia.
John H. Carson died quietly in his sleep at the home of his daughter, Martha, in Hopkins Co., TX on March 5, 1911.
Source: http://www.angelfire.com/tx3/RandysTexas/carson.html
John H. Carson enlisted with Col. W.P. Lane's Regiment, Texas 1st Partisan Cavalry, Capt. Durran's Company K. John served with his unit until the end of the war. Throughout the Civil War, John kept a detailed journal of his experiences.
The Texas 1st Cavalry Regiment, Partisan Rangers (also called Lane's Regiment, Lane's Rangers) participated in the following engagements:
Prairie Grove, December 7, 1862, Donaldsville (reserve), June 28, 1863, Cox's Plantation, July 12-13, 1863, Bayou Bourbeau, November 3, 1863 (John's brother-in-law, William R. Edwards was wounded during this battle.) Red River Campaign, March-May 1864, Mansfield, April 8, 1864,
Pleasant Hill, April 9, 1864, Monticello, September 10, 1864.
John Carson was a hard working farmer who cut down trees, built a log cabin to house his family, cleared the land and tilled the soil of East Texas. John and his wife, Elizabeth, were the parents of 10 children. The names of eight of their children began with "X" – Xerxes, Xenophon, Xanthus, Xylander, Ximenes, Xuthus, Xystus and Xenia.
John H. Carson died quietly in his sleep at the home of his daughter, Martha, in Hopkins Co., TX on March 5, 1911.
Source: http://www.angelfire.com/tx3/RandysTexas/carson.html
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