Lemuel Parker Hughes

In 1850 he was a 22 year old doctor living with his parents in Smith County, TN. He was elected 2nd Lieutenant of Company F, 4th Texas Infantry on 11 July 1861 at Camp Clark in Guadalupe County.

He was wounded in the left arm in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862, and captured.

His arm was amputated and he was paroled on 30 September. He was promoted to First Lieutenant on 5 November and to Captain on 7 (or 22) November. He was officially exchanged at Aikens' Landing, VA on 8 November and was furloughed from a Richmond, VA hospital on 19 November 1862. He resigned his commission on 3 February 1863 in San Antonio, TX (accepted by General R.E. Lee on 3 April 1863).

By 1880 he was Wilson County (TX) Clerk and lived in Floresville and he was listed as a stockman there in 1900. He'd retired in Floresville by 1910.

Service information from Davis1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 via fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and from the US Census for 1850, 1880, 1900, and 1910; the latter 3 of which have his birth in Kentucky. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Mary Bettie Peacock (1850-1905) in February 1876 and they had 5 daughters.

01/26/1830; Bedford County, TN

11/25/1914; Wilson County, TX; burial in Floresville City Cemetery, Floresville, TX