Colorado County Confederate Soldiers

These men appear in the Nesbitt Memorial Library's list of Confederate Soldiers who appeared in the 1860 Census of Colorado County, Texas, compiled by Bill Stein, Ernest Mae Seaholm, Dorothy Albrecht, and Tracey Wegenhoft. Please go to Colorado County Confederate Soldiers on the library's web site for detailed information about their service. Below the library's list are More Colorado County Confederate Soldiers known to have lived in the county in the 1860s, but who did not appear on the 1860 Census.

Abell, James M.

Abell, Robert A.

Adams, Edwin T.

Aldis, Horace

Allen, John O.

Alley, John R.

Anderson, Joseph Pinckney

Anderson, J. Wayne

Anderson, Thomas Scott

Andrews, A.

Andrews, John L.

Andrews, Micka

Andrews, Orin L.

Andrews, Reddin R.

Andrews, William R.

Anselin, Julius

Aschenbeck, John

Auerbach, Emil

Bacon, William H.

Baker, A. Hicks

Baker, Augustus L.

Baker, Benjamin Marshall

Baker, George W. L.

Baker, James Davis

Barnard, Fred

Barnett, Charles D.

Barry, John M.

Beauchamp, A. J.

Becker, Edward

Beckwith, Henry

Beethe, William

Behné, Gustav August

Beimer, Louis

Beimer, Hermann

Beimer, William

Bell, Robert A.

Belzung, Charles

Benson, William F.

Benthall, John C.

Berger, Serefin

Berkenhoff, Bernard

Berttram, Henry

Besch, Alexander

Besch, Emil

Binkley, Peter

Blazie, Charles L.

Bonds, Alston Boyd

Bonds, Wils L.

Bonds, W. W.

Bonitz, Johann Friedrich

Bostick, Sion Record

Braden, Andreas

Braden, Anton

Bratton, Robert Porter

Bridge, William Augustus

Brokmeyer, August

Brown, Peter R.

Bruce, Jaquelin Smith

Buchanan, W. L.

Buckley, Cornelius

Buckley, George W.

Buckley, Henry G.

Bullington, James H.

Burford, Andrew Campbell

Burford, Robert Phillip

Burger, Christof, Jr.

Burks, Rowland

Butterworth, William E.

Byars, James

Cabaniss, Max

Cabron, Frank Clements

Caldwell, Ferd E.

Caldwell, Robert

Campbell, John David

Campbell, William Leonidas

Carlton, James Easley

Carlton, William H.

Carson, James W.

Carson, John Marshall

Carter, A. V. L.

Carter, Albert Harrison

Carter, Ashley B.

Carter, James T.

Carter, John A.

Carter, Robert H.

Cherry, Wesley

Cherry, William John

Claiborne, Leonard A.

Clapp, Alfred Henderson

Clapp, Elii Dawson

Clapp, Elisha

Clapp, John F.

Clappp, Peter Lewis

Clapp, Suffield

Clapp, William M.

Coffee, Woodson

Cone, James T.

Connor, Julius M.

Connor, Stephen W.

Cook, Richard V.

Cooper, Albert Newton

Cooper, William Jasper

Copeland, William G.

Cox, George L.

Crisp, Alexander S.

Crisp, Richard C.

Crisp, Samuel S.

Cummins, George W.

Cummins, William A.

Currie, David M.

Currie, Isaac

Daniels, James Madison

Daniels, James R.

Daniels, William B.

Darden, William John

David, John Henry

David, William L.

Davidson, A. H.

DeGraffenried, Thomas T.

DeGraffenreid, William G.

DeHart, Samuel B.

Demoss, George W.

Dickerson, J. C.

Dillard, Pinckney D.

Dodd, John B.

Doescher, J. Henry

Dohmann, August Ferdinand

Dohmann, Werner

Doyle, William C.

Duke Joseph M.

Dungen, Joseph

Dunlavy, Henry F.

Dunlavy, John J.

Edwards, Jesse F.

Eggleston, John W.

Ehlinger, Charles

Elliott, Joseph R.

Emmel, John

Emmel, Peter

Enke, August

Erdmann, Georg Albrecht

Ernst, Friederich

Fehrenkamp, Henry

Finch, J. A.

Fisher, R. L.

Foard, Robert Levi

Folts, Alexander J.

Foster, Henry

Fowlkes, John A.

Frels, Gerhard

Fricke, Mike

Gaedcke, Henry C.

Garner, William M.

Gazley, William H.

Gerbermann, George

Gillespie, Thomas B.

Good, Edward L.

Good, James B.

Goode, Thomas F.

Goss, Samuel E.

Grace, John M.

Grace, Thomas J.

Granstedt, Conrad

Graves, Emmanual

Griffitts, John G.

Grodhaus, Theodor

Gross, Peter

Grow, A. L.

Grunder, Johann

Guinn, George R.

Guinn, John P.

Hagemann, Max

Hahn, Jacob A.

Halyard, Alphonso B.

Hancock, Hiram A.

Hancock, Sylvester J.

Harbert, Andrew Jackson

Harbert, John Calhoun

Harbert, John William

Harbert, Thomas C.

Harbert, William Jenkins

Harris, Joseph P.

Harris, Joshua

Harris, Thomas P.

Harris, Thomas W.

Hart, Henry C.

Hartsfield, Reddin S.

Harvey, John B.

Harwell, James Christopher

Harwell, John Thomas

Haskell, Horace Homer

Hawkins, John B.

Haynes, Blythe W.

Haynes, Evander C.

Henderson, D. H.

Henderson, Samuel

Henry, George

Henry, Jacob

Herbert, Oliver E.

Herbert, Willliam C.

Hester, John Robert

Hickerson, Thomas

Hickerson, Wiley

Hicks, Royce A.

Hight, Francis M.

Hill, Henry H.

Hill, Pinkey

Hoffmann, Hoseph

Holden, James M.

Holden, John D.

Holliday, Leonidas B.

Hollingsworth, Robert B.

Holt, James Wiliams

Hoover, Marshall

Hoover, Merritt

Hope, David

Howard, James M.

Howat, William

Hubbard, David A.

Hubbard, Frederick John

Huls, John

Hunt, William G.

Hutchins, Cornelius

Hutchins, John Fabius

Ijams, Basil Gaither, Jr.

Ilse, Rudolph

Ingram, B. F.

Insall, Henry J.

Insall, Joseph Gansey

Insall, Thomas Monroe

James, Thomas H.

Jenkins, James Franklin

Jenkins, John M.

Jenkins, Nathaniel H.

Jenkins, Vance F.

Johnson, George

Johnson, Henry Madison

Joiner, Burr E.

Jones, Seaborn C.

Jones, South

Jones, William H.

Jordt, Hermann Emil Mathias

Kaiser, Johann Wilhelm Friedrich

Kansteiner, Fritz

Kastrop, Henry

Keller, James H.

Kimbrough, W. D.

Kindred, Joel Thomas

Kindred, John S.

Kindred, Joseph Colston

Kindred, Joshua P.

Klimpel, Ernst Friedrich

Knowlton, Manly C.

Koepke, Fred

Koepke Friedrich

Kolb, Allen

Kollmann, Eduard

Kotzebue, Christian A. Meinhard

Kotzebue, Franz F. Julius

Kuenstler, William

Kuhn, Franz

Kuhn, Fritz

Kulow, Helmuth

Kuykendall, Allen

Lacey, Beverly M.

Laidley, Thomas M.

Land, Wiliam S.

Landrum, John T.

Landrum, William F.

LaTulle, Victor D.

Lauer, Franz

Legg, Andrew

Lessing, Charles

Lessing, Joseph

Leyendecker, Johann Baptist

Leyendecker, Johann Friedrich

Little, George Huff

Lockman, John B.

Lookup, Alexander

Loomis, James J.

Mackey, John

Maeckel, Edward

Maggett, John J.

Mahon, Samuel Archibald

Martin, Robert B.

Mathee, Fred Leopold

Matthews, Eli T.

Matthews, Thomas M.

Mayes, Joshua Pritchard

Mayes, Louis Monroe

Mayes, William Lewis

McCormick, George Millan

McCormick, Stephen Montgomery

McDonald, James

McFall, Robert E.

McKinley, Daniel A.

McKinley, James Harvey

McKinley, Thomas

McKinnon, Archibald E.

McLeary, James Harvey

McLeod, Matthew W.

McMillan, A. M.

Meismer, John

Melor, William Phillip

Meredith, William C.

Merseberger, Henry

Mewes, William

Meyer, Henry

Middleton, Stephen

Miekow, William

Miller, Jacob

Minter, Judson

Mitchell, Albert Gallatin

Mitchell, Benjamin F.

Moeckel, Johann David

Moeller, William

Moore, John E.

Moore, Thomas P.

Morgan, Robert G., Jr.

Munn, Neil

Murchison, Duncan A.

Nail, Samuel A.

Nave, James A.

Neuhaus,. Heinrich August Hermann

Newsom, EAton Pugh

Newsom, J. R.

Newsom, Littlebury McLemore

Newsom, William H.

Newton, Asa

Newton, John B.

Newton, Wright

Niehaus, William

Noack, John

Oakes, John C.

Oakes, Pleasant J.

Obenchain, Edgar Darius

Obenchain, J. S.

Obenchain, John T.

Obenhaus, Charles Henry

Obenhaus, Jullius

Ocker, Henry

Ocker, William

Orr, William

Ortmann, William

Otell, Friederich

Pankey, Joseph A.

Pankey, Martin

Parker, William

Parrott, William C.

Patton, Tomas J.

Paulsen, Gustav Bernard

Payne, Daniel Cherry

Payne, Don Fernando

Payne, Josiah F.

Pendleton, H. G.

Perry, William B.

Pettus, James T.

Pilger, Martin

Pinchback, John J.

Pinchback, William W.

Pope, J. B.

Pratt, Henry

Prause, Arnold

Prechectil, John

Priest, John

Putnam, Hillen

Putnam, Sanford

Putney, Richard J.

Putney, Robert William

Quick, Jacob

Quin, Michael

Raabe, Anton

Raabe, August

Raabe, Robert

Raverty, Arthur

Reinhart, Mathias

Reynolds, James

Rhea, James M.

Rhodes, Harry W.

Richter, Leopold

Rinteln, Anton

Rippel, Joseph

Rivers, Thomas Hunt

Roberdeau, James Daniel

Roberts, Thomas J.

Robertson, J. T.

Roever, William B.

Rolluson, Thomas H.

Romans, Andrew Jackson

Russell, James M.

Sabath, Carl August

Sanders, Floyd A.

Sanders, Newton

Sandmeyer, Julius

Schemmer, Henry

Scherer, Walter Dwight

Schmidt, Charles

Schmiedekamp, Bernard

Schneider, Henry S.

Schroeder, Otto

Schubert, August

Schulz, Henry

Secrest, Larkin Downs

Sellers, Isaac G.

Senne, Henry

Seymour, Charles

Seymour, George Washington

Shaffer, William A.

Shaw, William Howard

Shepherd, Webb

Shields, Charles

Shrewsbury, Simon

Shropshire, JohnSamuel

Silar, Hoseph

Silvey, James E.

Silvery, Peter G.

Simmons, Bernard

Simms, Charles W.

Simpson, John W.

Slack, S. W.

Sloneker, Samuel G.

Sloneker, William J.

Smith, Davis G.

Smith, Ferd

Smith, James A.

Smith, Joshua S.

Smith, Nelson P.

Smith, Samuel Willard

Snavely, Gideon G.

Spinck, Henry

Stafford, Robert Frederick

Stapleton, John

Stapleton, Samuel

Stapleton, Seaborn Trumbul

Stapleton, William

Stewart, William M.

Stone, William G. W.

Strahan, William T.

Strait, William M.

Stricklin, Alfred

Stroud, B. F.

Styres, James

Sudmeyer, Henry

Suhr, John

Swisher, Green F.

Taffel, Bernhard

Tanner, Calvin B.

Tanner, Field Archer

Tatum, Howal A.

Taylor, Solomon Lee

Taylor, Solomon T.

Terrell, Charles M.

Terrell, Henry

Terrell, Hunt

Terrell, Samuel W.

Terry, Bartholemew

Terry, George A.

Thatcher, John William

Tinkler, James Watt

Toland, Joseph H.

Toliver, Benjamin Franklin

Toliver, James A.

Tooke, Joseph G.

Tooke, Lovard T.

Townsend, Hamilton L.

Townsend, James Light

Townsend, Joseph Monroe

Townsend, Madison White

Townsend, Moses Solon

Townsend, Thomas Gideon

Townsend, William

Townsend, William Wallace

Tracy, Henry S.

Trott, William P.

Upton, John Cunningham

Van Wagner, Rupert

Voss, Henry

Walker, Edward G.

Walker, James K.

Walker, Littleton E.

Walker, William L.

Wall, John B.

Wall, William E.

Wallace, John H.

Wallace, Warren

Wallace, William H.

Washington, James T.

Washington, Walter G.

Watkins, Samuel W.

Weigel, Conrad

Wells, Stephen Monroe

Westphal, Friedrich

White, John

White, Simon

Whitehead, Joe H.

Whitehead, JohnF.

Whittle, Martin

Wilbanks, Thomas

Williamson, C. E.

Williamson, Thomas T.

Williamson, William McWillie

Williford, William L.

Wilson, James

Wilson, John

Wilson, Norval Cornelius

Winfree, John B.

Winfree, Thomas

Wingfield, William W.

Winn, Richard R.

Winn, Samuel DeHart

Wolf, Henry

Woods, Frank L.

Woolsey, Wiley M.

Wootton, William W.

Wright, Enoch Thaddeus

Wright, John W.

Wright, Thomas G.

Wright, Timothy C.

Zwiegel, Johann

More Colorado County Confederate Soldiers

The following Confederate veterans, though they lived in Colorado County, are not found in the 1860 Colorado County Census and therefore not listed in the Nesbitt Memorial Library's list of Colorado County Confederate Soldiers. Please contact the county coordinator if you have information on others who should appear here.

MAXIMILLIAN KECH

Mar 16, 1829 - May 30, 1919

Born in France, Max Kech served with the Texas 17th Infantry Company H, enlisting April 11, 1862 at Camp Terry. He collected pension benefits on application #00887.

He died at Frelsburg and is buried in the Trinity Lutheran Cemetery in an unmarked grave next to his wife, Mary Schultz Kech.

Contributed by Peggy Harmon

FRIEDERICH "FRITZ" HEINRICH LILIE, SR.

Friederich Lilie was a very hard working farmer most of his life in and around the Brushy Community in Colorado County, Texas.  He was born in Braunschweig, Germany which today is called Brunswick on the 21st of March 1828.  The city is located on the Elbe River in Lower Saxony which is considered the northwest part of West Germany today.

During much of the research, there were many comments made by descendants that Friederich "Fritz" Lilie committed suicide in order to avoid the Civil War.  However, while researching Johann Struss and Charles 'Carl' Struss's involvement in the Civil War, it was found that Fritz also served the southern states.

The record found shows Private Friederich 'Fritz' Lilie enlisted in Industry, Texas, Austin, County, on March 22, 1862.  He was shown as 36 years old at the time.   In only two weeks, he entered into the armed forces for the Confederate States of America, April 4, 1862, in Houston, Harris County, Texas. Lilie's enlisting officer was Captain S.M. Drake.  After the completing his joining the southern states, Friederich Lilie, Private was assigned to Captain Robert Voigt's Company, Company E., Infantry, also known as Waul's Texas Legion, CSA.

Private Lilie is shown in the muster rolls, as being assigned as a Texas Sharpshooter to Company C, 1st Infantry Battalion, Waul's Texas Legion.

Friederich Lilie fought in the Battle of Vicksburg.  After Confederate Forces were scattered around the major battle, Fritz Lilie was later captured on July 13th, 1863 in Yazoo City, Mississippi and sent to Memphis, Tennessee on July 20th, 1863 and held in the Irving Block Prison.

Fritz Lilie would escape from the Irving Block Prison sometime over the next six months and return to his Battalion, Company C, with Waul's Texas Legion.  He was not one of the 500 prisoners that escaped during the campaign to free the prisoners in August 1864.  The reason this is known is that he is shown back with his battalion in January and February, 1864 according to Muster Rolls.

MORE DETAILS REGARDING THE RAID ON THE PRISON IN AUGUST 1864:

At 4:00 am on the morning of August 21, 1864, Maj. Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest made a daring raid on Union-held Memphis, Tennessee, but it was not an attempt to capture the city, occupied by 6,000 Federal troops. The raid had three objectives: to capture three Union generals posted there; to release Southern prisoners from Irving Block Prison; and to cause the recall of Union forces from Northern Mississippi. Striking northwestward for Memphis with 2,000 cavalry, Forrest lost about a quarter of his strength because of exhausted horses. Surprise was essential. Taking advantage of a thick dawn fog and claiming to be a Union patrol returning with prisoners, the Confederates eliminated the sentries. Galloping through the streets and exchanging shots with other Union troops, the raiders split to pursue separate missions. One Union general was not at his quarters and another escaped to Fort Pickering dressed in his night-shirt. The attack on Irving Block Prison also failed when Union troops stalled the main body at the State Female College. After two hours, Forrest decided to withdraw, cutting telegraph wires, taking 500 prisoners and large quantities of supplies, including many horses. Although Forrest failed in Memphis, his raid influenced Union forces to return there, from northern Mississippi, and provide protection.

Fritz Lilie would return after the hostilities and join his family in the Brushy Community just outside of Columbus, Colorado County, Texas.  He would continue to live another 20 years, passing away on August 30, 1885 at the age of 55.

Additional notes on Friederich Heinrich Lilie, Sr.:

Born March 21, 1828 in Braunschweig, Germany
Died August 30, 1885 in the Brushy Community North of Columbus, Texas
Buried with wife in Lilie Cemetery
Married Friedericke Malsch, sister of Mathias ?Matthew? Malsch, an attorney in Columbus.
They had 4 girls and 2 boys.
Johanna Lilie married Diedrich Rotenberg
Catharina "Kate"Lilie married Wilhelm "Wm" Schulenburg
Friederich "Fritz"Lilie, Jr.  married Adolphine Sophia Becker and Ida Bowe
Charles "Charlie" Lilie never married.
Julia Lilie married Wilhelm "Wm" Struss
And Louisa "Louise" Lilie married Franz Muller (Miller)

Submitted by Sidney E. Struss

FELIX GRUNDY MAHON

Felix enlisted as a private in Co. D, 24th Reg't Texas Calvary, in Fayetteville on Sept. 1, 1862 by Wm. Keesee. He was trained at Camp Carter, near Hempstead. His personal horse was valued at $225 and his equipment was valued at $180. He was "elected" to Lieutenant March 9, 1864, per his March and April Muster record. The inspection report of Grandbury's Brigade of Texas Troops in the field near Atlanta Ga. Aug 25, 1864, states that he was absent by authority of the medical board, because he was wounded.

From A History of Texas and Texans by Francis White Johnson (1914): "He [Felix Mahon] enlisted in Company D of the Twenty-fourth Texas Cavalry, under Captain Swearingen and Colonel Wilkes. He was sent into Arkansas, and was Captured at Arkansas Post, and was taken as a prisoner to Camp Butler in Illinois in January, 1863. After three months his exchange was effected, and he was sent on to join the army of Tennessee under Bragg. To reach Bragg's army he went by way of Petersburg, Virginia, and arrived in time to take part in the desperate battle of Chikamauga, under the command of the famous Pat Cleburne, and as a member of Grandbury's Brigade. After spending the following winter in camp at Dalton, Georgia, he was in that gallant army under Joe Johnston, which opposed by a continuous flanking movement for upwards of one hundred days the slow advance fo the Federal Troops under Sherman, and the armies were in almost daily conflict between Chickamauga and Atlanta. At Atlanta, on the twenty-second of July, 1864, Mr. Mahon received a severe wound which incapacitated him for further active duty. In the meantime by popular vote in his company he had been raised to the rank of lieutenant. At the conclusion of his soldier's career he returned to Texas . . . "

Contributed by Rebecca Ewing Peterson

JAMES NORFLEET MAHON

Felix Grundy Mahon's brother, James, enlisted as a private in Co. D, Waul's Texas Legion.

Contributed by Rebecca Ewing Peterson

CHARLES DIEDERICH STRUSS

CHARLES DIEDERICH STRUSS FOUGHT IN BATTLE OF LAFOURCHE CROSSING, JUNE 20-21, 1863

Charles 'Karl' Struss left Colorado County with his friends the Machemehls of Austin, County and headed to Mexico.  On the way, his older brother convinced him to enlist into the Civil War on September 10, 1861 in Brownsville, Texas for 12 months of service with the Confederate States of America. He was 18 years of age and went with his 'big' brother, John Struss who was 23 years old.  His enlisting officer was Captain Littleton.  His enlistment was with Captain John Littleton's Company, 2nd Regiment of the Texas Mounted Rifles.  This Company was known at various times as Captain Littleton's Company, Captain Spencer's Company, Company D and Company I, 2nd Regiment Texas Calvary.

The 2nd Regiment Texas Calvary (also known as the 2nd Regiment Texas Mounted Rifles) was organized May 23rd, 1861, of companies which had previously been in the State service.  Company F re-enlisted in April, 1862, was furloughed to May 31st, 1862, and subsequently became Company I, Morgan's Regiment Texas Calvary. The remainder of the regiment was re-organized in July, 1862, and 2nd Company F was organized September 27, 1862.

On August 31, 1862, after a year of attachment to Captain Littleton's Company, Charles Struss was shown as being paid for his horse and saddle an amount equal to $63.00.  They also paid him $24.40 for the use of his horse for the first year in the War.

Charles Struss, right along side his brother John, re-mustered into service on June 20, 1862 and reorganization for a two-year period near Edinburg, Texas by Major W. O. Yager. At the time of his re-muster and reorganization, John was 19 years of age, having just had a birthday in March. Because of the late Captain John Littleton's Company, the 2nd Regiment Texas Mounted Rifles became part of Captain William A. Spencer's Company.

The Company Muster Rolls for March 1st thru June 30th, 1863 reflect Charles Struss being paid for his services by Captain Reeves on February 18, 1863 for use of his horse, $46.40.  Captain Spencer's Company, Karl and his 2nd Regiment Texas Calvary, were summoned from South Texas to LaFourche Parish Louisiana.

Charles was devastated while fighting in the Battle of LaFourche Crossing in LaFourche Parish, Louisiana along the side of his older brother Johann Diederich Struss.  John was wounded in action at the Battle on June 21, 1863.  He was taken by Union forces, prisoned & paroled on June 24, 1863.  JOHANN STRUSS DIED ON AUGUST 1, 1863 OF WOUNDS RECEIVED IN ACTION ON JUNE 21, 1863.  His burial place is more than likely located near LaFourche Parish, Louisiana, but no records supporting this could be found.

Charles and his Company were broken up after the battle and was he was given a furlough on August 6, 1864.  He is shown on his return from September 10-20, 1864 as doing extra daily duty as teamster for the Cavalry. Charles was very devastated having to leave his brother wounded for the Union forces to capture.  Charles, himself, was later captured by Union forces.

He was shown in the Texas State Archives as his name appears on a Parole of Prisoners of War at Columbus, Texas. "Paroled July 3, 1865."

"To all Whom it May Concern, Know Ye That:

I, Charles Struss, a Private of the 2nd Texas Regiment Texas Calvary, Captain Spencer's Company, CSA, being a prisoner of War, in the hands of the United States Forces, do in pursuance of the terms of capture, give this my solemn parole under oath -----

That I will not take up arms against the United States, nor serve in any military, police, or constabulary force in any Fort, Garrison or field work held by the Confederate States of America, against the United States of America, nor as guard of any prisons, depots or stores nor discharge any duties usually performed by Officers or soldiers against the United States of America, until duly exchanged by the proper authorities.

Sworn to and subscribed before me at Columbus, Texas, this 3rd day of July, 1865.

Additional notes on Johann Diederich Christian Struss:

Born August 6, 1838 in Lehmdermoor, Kreis Ammerland, Oldenburg, Germany
Died August 1, 1863 in the Battle of LaFourche Crossing, LaFourche Parish Louisiana
1 Son born; Wilhelm "Wm." Struss on December 15, 1859
Married Julia Lilie January 11, 1884 in New Ulm, Texas

Submitted by Sidney E. Struss

 

JOHANN DIEDERICH STRUSS

Johann 'John' Struss enlisted into the Civil War on September 10, 1861 in Brownsville, Texas for 12 months of service with the Confederate States of America. His enlisting officer was Captain Littleton.  His enlistment was with Captain John Littleton's Company, 2nd Regiment of the Texas Mounted Rifles.  This Company was known at various times as Captain Littleton's Company, Captain Spencer's Company, Company D and Company I, 2nd Regiment Texas Calvary.

The 2nd Regiment Texas Calvary (also known as the 2nd Regiment Texas Mounted Rifles) was organized May 23rd, 1861, of companies which had previously been in the State service.  Company F re-enlisted in April, 1862, was furloughed to May 31st, 1862, and subsequently became Company I, Morgan's Regiment Texas Calvary. The remainder of the regiment was re-organized in July, 1862, and 2nd Company F was organized September 27, 1862.

On August 31, 1862, after a year of attachment to Captain Littleton's Company, John was shown as being paid for his horse and saddle an amount equal to $63.00.  They also paid him $24.40 for the use of his horse for the first year in the War.

John Struss re-mustered into service on June 20, 1862 and reorganization for a two-year period near Edinburg, Texas by Major W. O. Yager. At the time of his re-muster and reorganization, John was 23 years of age, but soon to be turning 24 on his birthday in August. Because of the late Captain John Littleton's Company, the 2nd Regiment Texas Mounted Rifles became part of Captain William A. Spencer's Company.

The Company Muster Rolls for March 1st thru June 30th, 1863 reflect John Struss being paid for his services by Captain Reeves on February 18, 1863 for use of his horse, $46.40.  Captain Spencer's Company, John Struss and his 2nd Regiment Texas Calvary, were summoned from South Texas to LaFourche Parish Louisiana.

Johann Diederich Christian Struss was wounded in action at the Battle of LaFourche Crossing in LaFourche Parish, Louisiana on June 21, 1863.  He was taken by Union forces, prisoned & paroled on June 24, 1863.  JOHANN STRUSS DIED ON AUGUST 1, 1863 OF WOUNDS RECEIVED IN ACTION ON JUNE 21, 1863.  His burial place is more than likely located near LaFourche Parish, Louisiana, but no records supporting this could be found.

Additional notes on Charles "Carl" Diederich Struss:

Born March 17, 1843 in Lehmdermoor, Kreis Ammerland, Oldenburg, Germany
Death Date Unknown
Married Marie Shultz of Fayetteville;
1 Daughter Born: Maria Catharina Leopoldine Struss January 25, 1868
Marie Shultz Died January 26, 1868
Charles Struss Marries Maria Friedrike Dorothea Mueller Luedecke of New Ulm
3 Daughters Born

(Am searching for burial place and whereabouts of Carl Struss; one lady from New Ulm called me about 10 years ago and was a relative of this group of children. And I misplaced information that would have helped me find the cemetery and Struss girls from that discussion. Still looking.)

Submitted by Sidney E. Struss

Others known to have served and known to have spent most of their lives before and after 1860 in the county, but who did not appear on the 1860 census, include Henry Cameron McNeill, Robert Earl Stafford, and John Wegenhoft. Among the men who served and who would spend most of their lives in the county, but who are known to have moved to it in the few months after the census was taken but before the war broke out, was George Andrew Gegenworth. Please contact the county coordinator if you have information about these and others who should appear here.

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