Nesbitt Memorial Library Journal, Volume 7, Number 2, May 1997 Page: 104
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was discarged because of illness in the autumn of 1862. None of the Colorado County
members of the company was killed in the war, but two were grievously wounded; two
others, Isaac G. Sellers on December 13, 1862 and James M. Holden on August 17, 1863,
were captured; and another, John M. Barry, deserted. Before he was captured, Holden had
assaulted one of his fellow privates from Colorado County, Stephen Middleton, and
inflicted serious enough wounds with a knife that Middleton either died or was disabled for
further service. The other member of the company who was wounded, George Millan
McCormick, was shot in the leg in action near Tupelo, Mississippi, on July 15, 1864.
Unable to retreat with his company, he was captured by the federal army and taken to a field
hospital, where surgeons amputated his leg. The next day, the Confederates captured the
hospital, retrieved McCormick, and assigned his brother and fellow member of Company
D, Stephen Montgomery McCormick, to nurse him back to health.53
More than a dozen Colorado County men, most from around Alleyton and
Eagle Lake, joined a company of infantry raised by one of the two Alleyton militia company
captains, Michael Quin. Quin, who worked for the railroad, went back down the line to
Eagle Lake, enlisting the aide of James B. Good to help him raise the company, and then
into Fort Bend County. There he enrolled a number of men to augment those he and Good
raised in Colorado County. Among the Colorado County men were several Germans: Mike
Fricke, William Miekow, Ferd Smith, and John Suhr. From Alleyton, store owner Thomas
H. Rolluson, and his step-son, Pinkey Hill; and from Eagle Lake, Good's younger brother,
Edward L. Good, also joined up. So did Alfred Stricklin, who, in 1860, had run the Good
family hotel in Eagle Lake, the same hotel in which Quin then lived. Among the other
privates were the Hoover brothers, Marshall and Merritt, who were farmers near Alleyton.
The company was mustered into service on April 1, 1862 at Alleyton as Company H, 16th
Texas Infantry, with Quin as captain, and Good and William T. Strahan as lieutenants. To
help finance it, the county had already set aside $250. The company spent the war
campaigning in Texas, Arkansas, and Louisiana, but apparently saw little action. None of
the Colorado County men in the unit was either killed or wounded during the war, though
one, Miekow, would die, apparently of disease. He died in Arkansas on November 14,
1862. Both Good and Strahan would resign their commissions, Strahan only eighteen days
after being enrolled. Another lieutenant, James McDonald, who apparently had been
working on the railroad before the war, would be captured at Pleasant Hill, Louisiana.54
53 Muster Rolls, Company D, Cavalry, Waul's Texas Legion, Microfilm edition in Archives of the
Nesbitt Memorial Library, Columbus; Civil War letters of George McCormick, Ms. 6, Draper/McCormick
Papers, Archives of the Nesbitt Memorial Library, Columbus, or the convenient transcriptions in Bill Stein,
ed., "The Experiences of George McCormick in Waul's Texas Legion," Nesbitt MemorialLibrary Journal, vol.
1, no. 2, December 1989, pp. 35-65; John Duff Brown, "Reminiscences of Jno. Duff Brown," Southwestern
Historical Quarterly, vol. 12, no. 4, April 1909, pp. 309-311. Waul's Texas Legion, which was organized by
Thomas Neville Waul, at its inception contained infantry, cavalry, and artillery units.
54 Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers who Served in Organizations from the State of
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