Canada Sevier Bolton

One of the "pioneers" of Cherokee County, TX, he went to Jacksonville, TX from Alabama about 1850. He enlisted as Private in Company H, First Texas Infantry at Kickapoo, TX on 20 March 1862, age 41.

He was wounded in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862, by gunshot through both thighs.

He was treated at a US Army hospital in Frederick, MD from 15 October through 8 November 1862, then transferred to Baltimore, probably for exchange. He was in a hospital in Petersburg, VA on 21 November and furloughed home on the 29th. He was listed as absent on wounded furlough on subsequent muster rolls to the end of the war.

He was a farmer in Jacksonville, Cherokee County, TX to at least 1900.

Service information from Davis,1 Simpson,2 and his Compiled Service Records, online from fold3. Wound and hospital details from the Patient List.3 Personal information from family genealogists and the Cherokee County History (2001) from the Cherokee County Historical Commission, online from the University of North Texas. His gravesite is on Findagrave. Canada Street in Jacksonville, TX is named for him.

His son James Alexander Bolton, only 15 years old in 1861, ran away from home to enlist and later served with his father in Company H after transferring from the 18th Georgia Infantry.

08/02/1820; Jackson County, AL

01/12/1909; burial in Jacksonville City Cemetery, Jacksonville, TX