Military, Victoria County, TXGenWeb

War Veterans

Confederate Dead Buried at Victoria
1890 Texas Union Soldier Schedule, Victoria Co.
Union Soldiers Buried in Victoria-1865
Union Soldiers Who Died in Victoria, Buried Elsewhere
Union Soldiers at Victoria During 1865, story by Greg W. Lasley

Confederate Dead Buried at Victoria

This information was submitted by Rena McWilliams and was taken from the Victoria Advocate, May 11, 1923.

Austin, H. G
Ayres, Thos.
Bass, Archibald, Jr. (Killed, Marietta, Ga.)
Bauer, ____
Bernard, L.
Bierman, F.C.
Blossman, F. (Killed at Atlanta, Ga.)
Black, Gus
Boatner, Dr. E.S.
Barnefeldt, J.
Burchers, Paul (Grave unknown)
Brightwell, C.
Breeden, Capt. P.
Brann, L.
Brownson, J.M.
Bourke, H. and four brothers
Carroll, W.C.
Carter, W.H.
Clark, Alex.
Clark, Robt.
Curd, Dr. J.
Cocke, F. (Killed at Marietta, Ga.)
Conrad, J.W.
Collier, F. (Killed at Chickamauga)
Cunningham, Capt. A.
Cunningham, Capt. H.S.
Cunningham, Wm.
Cunningham, Jno. L.
Craig, W.J.
Coffey, Jno. (Grave unknown)
Crawford, J.W.
Daniel, L.S.
Deavers, _____ (Mexican and C.S.A. veteran)
Doss, R.A.
Dickson, F.
Driscoll, J.
Duncan, Dr. T.
Du Boss, _____ (This is almost certainly supposed to be DuBois.) (Buried at Marianna, Texas)
DeLeon, Sl__ostre (
DeLeon, P.
Ernst, Pvt. Anton, Teitz' Company, 24th Battalion, Texas State Troops
Ernst, Pvt. Joseph (son of Anton), Co.B of the 6th Texas Infantry
Fenner, Capt. F.
French, C.H.
Field, Al.
Field, Tom
Ferguson, J.
Fleming, T.N.
Fly, Major G.W.
Fox, J. (Wounded 4 times; prisoner)
Garrett, E.C.
Gervais, H.
Goehring, L.
Glass, W.S.
Goldman, A.
Hathaway, W.
Halfin, Sol.
Hauschild, G.H.
Harris, W.T.
Harrison, Geo. (Drowned in Neches coming home.)
Hill, Ben. (Adjutant General of Texas)
Hensoldt, A.
Heck, C.
Hefferman, Joe (Grave unknown)
Hyatt, Sam (Grave unknown)
Hughes, Pat.
Jatho, A.
January, Capt. J.P.B.
John, Chas. (Grave unknown)
Joyner, H.
Kearn, Jacob
Kern, J.
King, Al.
King, E.A.
Kibbe, I.
Kowald, A.
Kyle, W.H.
Kyle, T.
Leavitt, _____ (Mexican and C.S.A. veteran)
Lowe, _____ (Mexican and C.S.A. veteran)
Linn, Capt. C.
Linn, John
Lynn, R.
Mack, _____
Mallory, Geo.
Martin, O.
Meyer, J.
Moody, Jno.
Moody, Mercer (Grave unknown)
Nevins, Thos.
Nuner, Jas.
Newcomb, S. (Grave unknown)
Onderdonk, G.
Pela, V.
Peticolas, A.
Perrenot, Capt. E.
Phelps, E.M.
Philips, Capt. Wm. (Buried Camp Chase)
Pilgrim, Jno.
Pridham, F.R. (see more information below.)
Polka, F., Sr.
Priesmuth, F.
Proctor, D.C.
Rawley, R.
Ragland, Hy.
Ragland, T.
Rupley, Capt. J.
Roselle, J.
Rose, V.
Salziger, _____
Silberstein, I.
Sibley, F.
Schulte, F.
Stoner, P.
Stoner, G.O. (Last Commander Scurry Camp)
Summers, A.
Stubblefield, _____
Smith, Dr. E.H.
Stafford, J.
Sutton, Dr. E.
Sullivan, H.
Stapp, D.M. (Mexican and C.S.A. Veteran)
Sample, _____
Sengele, A.F.
Schwartz, C.
Schewitz, M. ("Bravest man in Company C")
Schraeder, Hy.
Schuchart, L.
Sheldon, L.
Smith, C.
Sigmund, M.
Sutton, Wm.
Swain, J.
Taylor, T.
Tippett, H.M. (1st volunteer in Victoria Co.)
Tippell, R.
Terry, Wm.
Traylor, Wm.
Traylor, P. (Killed at Atlanta)
Thomas, H.
Tom, W.R.
Wagner, August
Weisiger, Capt. Reid
Weisiger, Major R.
Wertheimer, C.
Woodapple, C. (Grave unknown)
Wood, Col. J.H.
Williams, D.
Williams, B.F.
Willemin, Aug.
White, A.B. (Mexican and C.S.A. veteran)
White, A.
Wilkins, S.a.
Wheeler, J.O., Jr.
Venable, _____ (Grave unknown)
Vandenberge, Joe
Vineyard, G.
VanRedern, U.S.A.
Voight, _____
Zahn, _____

An update from Chris Flemming, England UK:
"PRIDHAM, F R - is FRANCIS (or Frank) ROBERTS PRIDHAM - born abt 1841 and died 19th March 1904 in Texas. He was the son of P.U. PRIDHAM - PETER UNDERHAY PRIDHAM who was born in Guernsey and died abt. 1853 in Texas. I have a letter written by F R Pridham and proof that he fought for the Confederates. P U Pridham is my GGG Uncle and was one of the founders of Texas."

Grand Army of the Republic (G.A.R.) Veterans Buried in Evergreen Cemetery

Adler, H.C.
Adams, A.
Brown, P.
Clark, H.
Lemert, Capt. O.D.
Gilbert, L.S.
Haller, L. (Catholic Cemetery)
Stewart, M.
Rehm, J.
VonRedern, _____
Carpenter, Ed.
McCulley, Dr. A.C.

Spanish-American Veterans Buried in Evergreen

Haas, Jno.
Martin, W.
Matthews, Ben.
Mitchell, Max. (Catholic Cemetery)

The 1890 Texas Union Soldier Schedule

Microfilm Roll 101

Many thanks to Petra Wright who transcribed and donated these records to TXGenWeb!

Last	First	Widow	Rank	Regiment	Soundex
Alden	Charles R.		Cpl/Musician	F 42 Ill Inf/I 4 US Cav	A435
Alexander	Laeser				A425
Anderson	John		1st Pvt	G 38 Colored Inf Vol	A536
Barden		Eva	Capt	B 2 Mich Vol	B635
Beck	Joseph	Hersnia?	Pvt	C 1 Tex Cav	B200
Billings	William				B452
Byaso	Josiah L.		Sgt	E 1 US Cav	B200
Clark	Hiram		Pvt	C 96 Ill Inf	C462
Crawford	James S.		Conf 2 Lt	K 33 Tex Cav	C616
DeLaGarza	Vicente		Conf Pvt	B 3 Tex Cav	D426
Gavel	Joe		Pvt	D 16 Ill Cav	G140
Gibbs	Charles	Lucinda			G120
Gilbert	Nathan		Cpl	L 22 NY Cav	G416
Gilbert	Nathan S.		Cpl	L 22 NY Vol Cav	G416
Gray	Ed		Drummer	G 12 Wis Vol	G600
Gwinn	William W.		1st Lt	E 38 Ill	G500
Hadeck	Edmund W.		Pvt	E 168 NY Vol	H320
Haller	E.	Christine			H460
Hammond	Asher	Hannah M.	Capt	B 31 Ind	H553
Heaton	Lorenzo D (a Lawrence D)		Hspl Steward	E 1st Mo Vol Inf	H350
Hernandez	Warloupe		Conf Pvt	C 4 Tex Cav	H655
Hester	John			Navy	H236
Hiller	Adam		Pvt	D 58 Ill Inf	H460
Hogan	James M.		Conf Pvt	A 7 Tex Cav	H250
Howard	George		Pvt	G 13 NY Militia	H630
Kaufman	Dave		Pvt	C 86 Ohio Inf	K155
Kaufman	John H.		Pvt	C 64 Ohio Inf	K155
Kelly	Michael		Pvt	G 13 Con	K400
Killip	Archibald W.		Sgt/2 Lt	K 11 Pa/13 Vt	K410
King	Chauncey L.		Pvt	B 114 Ill Inf	K520
Mack	Henry		Pvt	H 7 Md	M200
McCullough	William		Sailor		M242
Meyer	Gustave		Pvt	15 NY Inf	M600
Monroe	Charlie				M560
O'Brien	John				O165
Purmpseed	Frank		Pvt	G 62 Cold Mo Inf	P651
Reagan	Dominik		Pvt	US Vol Reg	R250
Rehm	Jacob				R500
Reily	Edward O.		Conf Pvt	H 6 Tex Inf	R400
Sample	Wellington		Conf Cpl	D 1 Tex Cav	S514
Stamper	Louis		Pvt	E Ohio Inf	S351
Stark	Adam		Pvt	E 1 Tex Cav	S362
Stephenson	John M.		Conf Pvt	Benavida Regt	S315
Stuart	Malke		Capt	61 Tex US Colored Inf	S363
Sullivan	Dan		Sailor	Wasp, Powhattan	S415
Summers	Adam		Conf Pvt	A Tex Cav	S562
Taupel	Edward L.		Pvt		T140
Terrell	Croggan L.		Conf Pvt		T640
Terrell	Timothy R.		Conf Pvt		T640
Tompson	Benjamin F.		Pvt	B 4 NY Cav	T512
Wheeler	M.E.		Pvt	I 7 Vt Inf	W460
Wheeler	Moses E.		Pvt	I 7 Vt	W460
Whips	Hiram		Pvt	Home 9 Inf	W120
Woodhouse	Joseph		Pvt		W320

Union Soldiers Buried in Victoria TX - 1865

We would like to thank Greg Lasley who has done considerable research and discovered the names of Union soldiers who were buried in Victoria in 1865. In his words, "Just for the record, I will list the eighty-five soldiers who were initially buried at Victoria. Most, if not all, were apparently later moved by the Union army. The remains of my great grandfather were moved from Victoria to the Alexandria National Cemetery in Louisiana late in the 1860s. There is a website for the Alexandria National Cemetery. I checked some of the other soldier's names that were originally buried at Victoria in the surname index for Alexandria National Cemetery and found most of them listed. So, it does appear that the federal army did in fact come to Victoria in the late 1860s and removed the remains of their deceased soldiers." The soldiers named below are found in the "Alphabetical Index to Places of Interment of Deceased Union Soldiers", published by the Quartermaster General's Office, Washington, D.C. in 1868." You may read Greg's very interesting story of his research and of his great-grandfather below.

Buried near Wesserquere's house, 6 miles N.W. of Victoria

Name	Rank	Regiment	Co.	Date of Death
Allen, Aaron	Pvt.	51st Ohio	I	Aug. 19, 1865
Bevin, James E.	Sgt.	77th Penn	E	Sept. 16, 1865
Brown, Dallas	Pvt.	31st Ind	C	Sept. 27, 1865
Carr, Amos	Pvt.	30th Ind	F	Sept. 19, 1865
Classin, Martin	Pvt.	77th Penn	F	Sept. 2, 1865
Clusky, Lewis	Pvt.	41st Ohio	I	Oct. 4, 1865
Crawford, Hillane	Pvt.	51st Ohio	C	Sept. 6, 1865
Cullirou, B.	Pvt.	51st Ohio	F	Sept. 9, 1865
Davison, Walter	Musician	9th Ind		Sept. 9, 1865
Deal, James	Pvt.	21st IL	H	Sept. 2, 1865
Dennison, John	Pvt.	23rd KY	F	Oct. 9, 1865
Dexter, Ira	Pvt.	75th IL		Sept. 25, 1865
Forsyth, John	Sgt.	77th Penn	A	Sept. 29, 1865
Galloway, Charles	Pvt.	77th Penn	C	Sept. 14, 1865
Grayhle, Emanuel	Pvt.	77th Penn	F	Sept. 9, 1865
Hanson, Halvor	Pvt.	13th Wis	H	Oct. 5, 1865
Hatfield, Jasper	Pvt.	31st Ind	H	Oct. 15, 1865
Herr, Joseph	Pvt.	77th Penn	A	Sept. 5, 1865
Hills, Giles	Pvt.	4th Mich	I	Oct. 27, 1865
Hinback, August	Pvt.	77th Penn	E	Oct. 29, 1865
Hogan, Thomas P.	Pvt.	21st KY	E	Oct. 29, 1865
Holland, John	Pvt.	21st KY	D	Aug. 28, 1865
Horner, George W.	Pvt.	51st Ohio	I	Oct. 8, 1865
Howes, Henry	Pvt.	77th Penn	F	Nov. 26, 1865
Howell, Albert J.	Pvt.	77th Penn	C	Nov. 28, 1865
Husdon, Zachariah	Pvt.	31st Ind	H	Nov. 15, 1865
Hurkleberry, Jacob	Pvt.	3rd Mich	A	Nov. 7, 1865
Hutchins, Martin	Pvt.	38th IL	A	Nov. 30, 1865
Karger, Anton	Pvt.	77th Penn	A	Sept. 2, 1865
Ketch, George	Cpl.	51st Ohio	G	Sept. 12, 1865
Lesh, Lewis	Pvt.	35th Ind	A	Sept. 25, 1865
Martin, William F.	Pvt.	35th Ind	D	Aug. 24, 1865
Montgomery, John	Pvt.	77th Penn	H	Aug. 13, 1865
Nieman, Jacob	Pvt.	77th Penn	F	Sept. 6, 1865
O'Holland, William	Pvt.	21st KY	F	Aug. 30, 1865
Payne, David J.	Pvt.	38th IL	K	Oct. 3, 1865
Phillips, David	Pvt.	31st Ind	A	Sept. 9, 1865
Ramsey, John	Pvt.	9th Ind	H	Sept. 13, 1865
Riley, Jacob	Pvt.	21st KY	D	Aug. 30, 1865
Richmond, John R.	Pvt.	51st Ohio	H	Sept. 12, 1865
Ron, John	Cpl.	77th Penn	A	Oct. 6, 1865
Shamon, John	Pvt.	77th Penn	E	Sept. 29, 1865
Sturtevant, Isaiah J.	Pvt.	38th IL	G	Aug. 23, 1865
Syling, Lewis	Cpl.	77th Penn	F	Sept. 13, 1865
Temple, Franklin	Pvt.	77th Penn	F	Oct. 1, 1865
Thomas, Joseph	Pvt.	77th Penn	G	Aug. 19, 1865
Trimblin, Philip	Pvt.	51st Ohio	I	Aug. 21, 1865
Wadley, William	Pvt.	38th IL	H	Aug. 16, 1865
Wages, John	Pvt.	51st Ohio	D	Aug. 17, 1865
Waterman, David	Pvt.	30th Ind	E	Sept. 19, 1865
Wells, George D.	Pvt.	31st Ind	H	Aug. 31, 1865
White, Horace H.	Pvt.	31st Ind	I	Aug. 26, 1865

Buried near Railroad Depot, Victoria

Name	Rank	Regiment	Co.	Date of Death
Alderon, John	Pvt.	21st KY	K	Oct. 26, 1865
Allen, J. W.	Pvt.	77th Penn	D	Nov. 25, 1865
Anderson, Andrew	Pvt.	13th Wis	F	Nov. 29, 1865
Baldwin, Thomas H.	Pvt.	77th Penn	I	Nov. 25, 1865
Bresh, Peter	Cpl.	13th Wis	C	Oct. 18, 1865
Brown, Peter	Pvt.	77th Penn	E	Dec. 4, 1865
Brown, Frederick	Pvt.	18th NY cav.	D	Dec. 6, 1865
Crawford, William P.	Pvt.	21st KY	C	Nov. 11, 1865
Fisher, William	Pvt.	77th Penn	K	Nov. 27, 1865
Johnson, Alexander	Pvt.	31st Ind	A	Nov. 4, 1865
Leslie, James P.	Pvt.	30th Ind	A	Nov. 9, 1865
Lewis, Charles V.	Pvt.	4th Mich	I	Oct. 29, 1865
Lyons, Robert J.	Pvt.	77th Penn	I	Oct. 21, 1865
McNeely, Thomas	Pvt.	59th IL	I	Oct. 15, 1865
Miller, John	Pvt.	15th Ind	F	Dec. 9, 1865
Moore, John J.	Pvt.	77th Penn	F	Nov. 18, 1865
Munce, James	Pvt.	13th Wis	C	Nov. 16, 1865
Myers, Andrew	Pvt.	30th Ind	C	Oct. 30, 1865
Patterson, Matthew	Pvt.	77th Penn	D	Nov. 9, 1865
Pearson, Leonard	Pvt.	21st KY	G	Oct. 22, 1865
Quigg, William	Pvt.	38th IL	C	Nov. 6, 1865
Rice, James S.	Cpl.	21st KY	G	Nov. 7, 1865
Spencer, Samuel	Cpl.	77th Penn	H	Nov. 26, 1865
Stewart, Daniel	Pvt.	77th Penn	E	Nov. 6, 1865
Stocking, James	Pvt.	49th Ohio	F	Dec. 3, 1865
Tefensee, John	Pvt.	77th Penn	E	Nov. 24, 1865
Tonga, Arnada	Pvt.	38th IL	C	Nov. 18, 1865
Truxton, Talbot	Pvt.	3rd Mich	I	Oct. 16, 1865
Wacelin, James	Pvt.	77th Penn	H	Nov. 28, 1865
Weaver, William	Pvt.	77th Penn	I	Dec. 4, 1865
Wells, Stephen C.	Pvt.	21st IL	I	Oct. 27, 1865
Woodward, George A.	Cpl.	21st IL	B	Oct. 16, 1865

Buried at Odd-Fellows' Cemetery near Victoria

Name	Rank	Regiment	Co.	Date of Death
Brewer, Martin	Pvt.	77th Penn	I	Dec. 17, 1865

More Information on Union Soldiers Who Died in Victoria County

Thanks to Martin Stewart who sent this.

Name	Rank	Company	Date of Death	Where Died	Where Buried
Gavin, John	Private	H	July 24, 1865	Indianola TX	unknown
Heckman, Jacob C.	1st Sgt	C	Aug. 20, 1865	Victoria TX	Alexandria National Cemetery
Webb, Farmer	Sargeant	G	Sept. 2, 1865	Victoria TX	Alexandria National Cemetery

Union Soldiers at Victoria During 1865

By Greg W. Lasley

Family genealogical research has a strange way of revealing tidbits of local history that had not been generally known beforehand. Such is the case with my own research into the life of my great grandfather, James Preston Lasley, from Posey County, Indiana. I discovered that he and other Union soldiers were buried in Victoria in late 1865. I also found a list of the soldiers' names, information not previously available in Victoria.

James Preston Lasley was born in Kentucky in about 1834. Nothing else about his life is known until he showed up in Posey County, Indiana, and married a local girl named Sarah Jane Austin in May 1855. Both James and Sarah were illiterate, so the last name was spelled in many ways on various records such as Lassly, Leslie, Lesley, etc. James was a farmer, but did not own his own land. He and Sarah had three children. In November, 1864, near the end of the Civil War, James enlisted for one year in the Union Army in the 30th Indiana Infantry Regiment as a substitute for a William C. Baker. In exchange for enlisting, Baker conveyed 40 acres of land to James at Point Township in Posey County along the bottomland of the Ohio River. I can imagine that James saw this one-year enlistment as a way out of his poverty. All he had to do was serve a single year in the military and then he could return home to his 40 acres and raise his family on his own land.

The 30th Indiana Infantry was involved in the battle of Nashville in December, 1864, and then in the pursuit of General Hood to the Tennessee River later that month. The regiment was at Huntsville, Alabama, and locations in Tennessee through April 1865, when the war ended. The unit remained at Nashville through June and was then sent to New Orleans. It finally arrived in the coastal areas of Texas as an occupation force in July, 1865.

Since James P. Lasley was illiterate, he never corrected the various ways his name was spelled in the military records and muster rolls. His service records, in general, record him as James P. Leslie, but other spellings are used as well. The military records show him present and on duty at several Alabama locations in February and March 1865 and later in the summer in Louisiana and Texas. On August 4, 1865, he is listed as being sick in the "Military Field Hospital in Victoria, Texas." Finally, he died of disease on November 9, 1865, in Victoria at the military field hospital, just two weeks before his unit was mustered out of service. It is a sad tale, and my thoughts go out to this young man wasting away from disease far from home, knowing that he would never see his wife and children again. That was all I knew about him and his final resting place until my research uncovered some more information about Victoria and the soldiers who died there just after the Civil War.

After many of the dead ends that are so common to genealogists, I was excited to come across an 1868 U.S. Government publication titled "Alphabetical Index to Places of Interment of Deceased Union Soldiers." In this publication I found listings of hundreds of Union soldiers who died in Texas at many different locations during the last four months of 1865. Deceased soldiers are listed as having been buried at Houston, Jasper, Galveston, Hempstead, San Antonio, Indianola, Green Lake, Lavaca, Matagorda, Victoria, and elsewhere. There were three Victoria sites mentioned including "near Wessequere's House, 6 miles N.W. of Victoria; near railroad depot, Victoria; and Odd-fellows' Cemetery, near Victoria" where a total of fifty two, thirty two, and one soldiers had been buried, respectfully. My great grandfather, James P. Leslie of the 30th Indiana Infantry Regiment, was listed among the men buried near the railroad depot.

Armed with this information I went to Victoria on September 20, 2001, to do some investigation on my own. While in Victoria I spent some time on the phone with Mr. Charles Spurlin and Ms. Gladys Arnold, local historians, who were both extremely generous and helpful to an out-of-town visitor. I also spent some time at the public library and at the special collections of the Victoria College library. I learned that the present day Memorial Square is located at the site of the original Victoria burial ground that had been in use since 1824 when it was originally laid out by Martin de Leon. I also learned that the railroad depot in 1865 was only a block away from this cemetery. It stood to reason that federal troops stationed in Victoria just after the Civil War would have buried their deceased soldiers at this location. I found old newspaper articles from 1899 which also indicated that this was true. But, though there are still many unmarked graves at Memorial Square, are these federal soldiers among them? More work was needed. Among the various sources of information I looked through and the many helpful people I spoke with, it did not seem as if anyone in Victoria had previously known the names of the Union soldiers who had originally been interred in Victoria during 1865. Furthermore, while it was thought that some or all of the federal soldiers had been removed well after the war, no one seemed to know for certain. I think I can provide the answer.

I have been told by various researchers that in the aftermath of the Civil War the Federal Government did a thorough job of tracking down and removing to national cemeteries the bodies of Union soldiers. I checked with all the Texas national cemeteries, but found no listing for my great grandfather, so I began to suspect that he was resting in an unmarked grave at Memorial Square. Finally, in response to an inquiry I sent to the Veterans Affairs National Cemetery Administration in Washington, D.C., I learned that James P. Leslie had, in fact, been moved to a national cemetery. His final resting place is in grave site 890-B at the Alexandria National Cemetery, in Pineville, Louisiana. He has a marker and information about his unit on a headstone. The records at Alexandria National Cemetery indicate "James P. Leslie, 30th Indiana, died Nov. 9, 1865, originally buried at Victoria, Texas." Checking through the surname index on the web page of the cemetery, I saw that a substantial percentage of the soldiers who were originally buried at or near Victoria were eventually moved to Alexandria National Cemetery.

Victoria has been an important part of Texas history through almost 200 years. From early Texas explorers to the battle for Texas independence and into the twentieth century, the history of Victoria has played an important part of our heritage. It is interesting to learn of even small additional bits of information about Victoria, such as the fact that Union soldiers were buried in her soil, then eventually moved to a national cemetery in Louisiana. Just for the record, I will list the eighty-five soldiers who were initially buried at Victoria. Most, if not all, were apparently later moved by the Union army. The soldiers named are found in the "Alphabetical Index to Places of Interment of Deceased Union Soldiers," published by the Quartermaster General's Office, Washington, D.C. in 1868.