Garland H. Colvin

He enlisted at Camp Clark in Guadalupe County as a Private in Company B, 4th Texas Infantry on 11 July 1861. He was severely wounded in the leg at Gaines Mill, VA on 27 June 1862 but was back on duty by August.

He was with his Company in action at Fox's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September and at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

He was appointed 4th Sergeant on 22 September 1862 and promoted to First Sergeant of the Company on 1 May 1863. He was probably wounded in action near Little Round Top at Gettysburg on 2 July 1863 and was wounded again, by a gunshot to his left hip - a "simple flesh wound" - at Chickamauga, GA on 20 September 1863. He was captured on 3 December 1863 at Loudon, TN, probably by advance elements of US General Sherman's force, probably in a hospital. He was in US Army hospitals in Nashville and Chattanooga, then sent to the US prison at Louisville, KY on 19 February 1864. He was transferred to Fort Delaware on the 29th, arrived on 4 March, and was a prisoner there until released on 9 June 1865 after taking an oath of allegiance.

He attended the reunion of the Tom Green Rifles (Company B) in Nashville in 1897. In 1900 he was Travis County C---(?) in Austin.

Service information from Davis1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 via fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census for 1900. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Ellen Ann Summers (1845-1924) in April 1866 and they had 8 children.

05/1835 in SC

1905; burial in Walnut Creek Baptist Church Cemetery, Austin, TX