Edmund Duggan

He worked in his family's general merchandising business in Prairie Lee in Caldwell County and was a 20 year old student when he enrolled at Camp Clark in Guadalupe County on 4 July 1861. He was elected Junior 2nd Lieutenant (3rd Lieutenant) of Company D, 4th Texas Infantry on 11 July and was promoted to First Lieutenant on 27 June 1862, probably at Gaines Mills, VA.

He commanded the Company in action at Fox's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September, but was absent, sick at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

He was in a hospital in Richmond, VA and resigned there on grounds of disability from chronic dysentery on 2 October 1862. By January 1864 he was in South Texas as Lieutenant and Assistant Adjutant General to Colonel John S. "Rip" Ford, and he was taken prisoner and gave his parole at Brownsville, TX on 19 June 1865.

He sold his business and moved to a ranch in Guadalupe County in 1867. In 1877 he sold that and was a bookkeeper in the state treasurer's department in Austin to 1881. He then went to Tom Green County and raised sheep. He was elected District Clerk of the county in 1888 and served twenty years.

Service information from Davis1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 via fold3. Personal details from family genealogists, the US Census for 1860, 1880, and 1900, and a bio sketch in Francis White Johnson's A History of Texas and Texans (Volume 4, 1914), online from the Internet Archive; source also of a photo of him late in life. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Julia E Coor-Pender (1845-1929) in November 1867 and they had two sons; both died in their early 30s, before their father.

Some of his 1864-65 papers are among the John S. Ford Papers [TCM 94.1.1-1270] at the Haley Memorial Library, Midland, TX.

09/19/840; Travis County, TX

04/22/1911; San Angelo, TX; burial in Fairmount Cemetery, San Angelo, TX