"Scott"
(? - 1862)
Home State: Texas
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 1st Texas Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
He mustered as Private in Company D, First Texas Infantry on 6 June 1861 in New Orleans. He was elected Lieutenant in January 1862 and promoted to Captain on 15 May 1862. He was detailed on recruiting duty in Texas in Spring 1862.
On the Campaign
He commanded his Company in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862. In his Report, Colonel Work wrote of the situation after the Regiment had charged through Miller's Cornfield:
It is, perhaps, due to myself to state that, when I determined to retire, I requested Captain Connally to give the order upon the right, and stepped to the left to direct Captain Woodward to give the order upon the left, from which point I moved on to the extreme left, to discover, if possible, the locality of the enemy attacking from that quarter, in order to be prepared to govern the movements of my regiment, so as to protect it as far as possible from danger and damage.Afterward, Private Cook of his company remembered:
When Captain Connally learned that he and I were the sole [remaining] representatives of Company D he said that as we did not need any officers for so small a squad he would get a gun and fall in with me, and that we two would do the fighting for Company D as long as we lived. Captain Connally was one of the bravest men in the army. He was in the last stage of consumption and had to be hauled to the battle field that morning. But the day overtaxed his strength. He was sent back to Richmond and thence went to Georgia, where he died a few months later.
The rest of the War
He died from consumption (tuberculosis) in Atlanta, GA on 20 November 1862.
References & notes
Service information from Simpson.1 His command at Sharpsburg from F.B. Chilton's Unveiling and Dedication of Monument to Hood's Texas Brigade (1910), which has him as U.S. Connolly. The Cook quote from the San Antonio Daily Express of 29 March 1908.
Death
11/20/1862; Atlanta, GA
1 Simpson, Harold Brown, Hood's Texas Brigade: a Compendium, Hillsboro: Hill Junior College Press, 1977, pg. 33 [AotW citation 20877]