Bell County Historical Commission Newsletter. Spring 2017 Vol. 26, No. 3 Bell County Courthouse Belton, Texas PDF Free Download

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BCHC Newsletter Spring 2017 Nine Texas Gold S only one Folks interested in the history of General John sooner or later learn about a woman in Houston w the States, had her gold jewelry melted down gave the gold stars to Senator Louis Wigfall of give them to General Robert E. Lee to be given SCV James Bozeman, researcher, in charge of ceremony at North Belton ceremony Today only one of the gold stars is known to Museum at Hill College in Hillsboro. On the mu Perkins of Athens donated her legendary and cov Private James Polk Knight, received. The Texas G Soon after the war began in April 1861 with Charleston, South Carolina, 17-year-old Jacob Hem Regiment. The 5th TX, soon to be ordered to Ho southeastern Texas counties, participated in almo involved, according to James Bozeman. Second L Camp #1250, Sons of Confederate Veterans. Camp #1250 members learned about Hemph four years of service, from SCV member Joe Wa War Museum in Fort Worth. Not only did they but that he had lived and died in nearby Florenc learned also that he had been awarded one of the soldier s compatriots and decided to honor his me Daughters of the Confederacy Chapter #101 dedic Martha Hartzog of Austin, president, Hood s Texas Brigade Association Re-Activated, at Jacob Hemphill monument dedication Bozeman located Hemphill s grave at North disappointed that the gravestone did not mention h to remedy the oversight and subsequently placed with information about the soldier s endurance hurt at the Second Battle of Manassas (Bull (Antietam). Then assigned to a unit that fought and Missionary Ridge, then returned to Lee s Arm in White Oak Swamp, he was unable to return neck, broke his underjaw and exited from the ba Appomattox, Hemphill was there, then began the Texas Order of Confederate Rose member Joyce Jones performing rose ceremony 8

BCHC Newsletter Spring 2017 tars presented... survives! Bell Hood, after whom Fort Hood is named, will ho in 1865, toward the end of the War Between and fashioned into nine little one-inch stars. She the Confederate Congress with instructions to to the nine bravest men in Hood s brigade. have survived. It s on display at Texas Heritage seum s label one may read that Pauline Knight eted Texas Gold Star medal that her grand uncle, old Star remained in her family for 150 years. the attack on the United States Fort Sumter at phill enlisted in Company H, 5th Texas Infantry od s Texas Brigade and composed of men from st every campaign in which Hood s Brigade was ieutenant Commander, Major Robert M. White ill, who rose to the rank of sergeant during his lker of Waco, who volunteers at the Texas Civil learn about Hemphill s service during the war, e and is buried at North Belton Cemetery; they nine Texas Gold Stars, an honor bestowed by a mory with a monument citing his service. United ated a Confederate Iron Cross, as well. JACOB HEMPHILL SGT, CO H 5th Texas INF, CSA SERVICE DATES: AUG. 20, 1861 - APR. 9, 1865 Belton Cemetery, but remembers that he was is service to the Confederacy. The Camp decided a gray Texas granite marker at Hemphill s grave and courage as he survived four injuries; slightly Run), he then was badly wounded at Sharpsburg at Gettysburg, he participated at Chickamauga y of Northern Virginia. Fighting Union cavalry to battle for six months after a ball entered his ck of his neck. When Lee said, Stack Arms at trek back home to Texas. A.L. Major Robert M. White Camp #1250 SCV members delivering four-gun salute at Texas Gold Star dedication in Belton 9

Bell County Historical Commission Newsletter. Spring 2017 Vol. 26, No. 3 Bell County Courthouse Belton, Texas 76513