Richard Henry Franks

From West Point, age 20, he enlisted at Camp Clark in Guadalupe County, TX as a Private in Company D, 4th Texas Infantry on 4 July 1861.

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

He was appointed 3rd (Junior 2nd) Lieutenant in August 1863 and was wounded again, by a gunshot to his left thigh in the Wilderness, VA on 5 May 1864. He was promoted to First Lieutenant, then Captain on 9 January 1865, and was paroled at Appomattox Court House, VA on 9 April 1865.

He was in West Point in 1867 and was a lawyer in Schulenburg by 1877. He died relatively young at age 39.

Service information from Davis,1 as Captain R.H. Franks, and his Compiled Service Records,2 via fold3, both as R.H. Franks. Personal details from family genealogists, with his birthplace from the 1867 voter registration for Fayette County, TX. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Lamira Jane Lewis (1840-1870) in September 1866 and they had two daughters, Mary Minter (1868-70) and Roberta Lewis (1870-1940)

11/12/1841; Aberdeen, MS

05/1881; Schulenburg, TX; burial in Schulenburg City Cemetery, Schulenburg, TX