Lawrence Aylett Daffan

(1845 - 1907)
Home State: Texas
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 4th Texas Infantry

Before the Antietam Campaign:
He was in Company G.

After the War:
He worked on the "upbuilding" of the Houston and Texas Central Railroad until his death.

References, Sources, and other notes:
Basic information from Davis 1. See also the Confederate Veteran (15 CV 184-5). Details from a memorial to him in the program of the dedication of Hood's Texas Brigade Monument at the capital at Austin in 1910.

Polley's A Soldier's Letters to Charming Nellie (1908) has a good post-War photograph of Daffan.

Birth Date: 04/30/1845 Place of Birth: Conecuh County, AL
Death Date: 01/28/1907 Death Place: Ennis, TX Burial Place: Myrtle Cemetery, Ennis, TX

Notes

1 Davis, Rev. Nicholas A., The Campaign from Texas to Maryland, Houston: Telegraph Book and Job Establishment, 1863, pp. 159 - 161 [AotW citation 1834]

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