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INTRODUCTION
As my recollections of the war between the States,
or the Confederate War, in which four of the best
years of my life (May, 1861, to May, 1865) were
given to the service of the Confederate States of
America, are to be written at the earnest request of
my children, and mainly for their gratification, it is,
perhaps, proper to preface the recital by going
back a few years in order to give a little family
history.
I was born in what is now the suburbs of the town
of Gurley in Madison County, Alabama, on the 9th
day of November, 1834. My father, Samuel Boulds
Barron, was born in South Carolina in 1793. His
father, James Barron, as I understand, was a native
of Ireland. My mother's maiden name was Martha
Cotten, daughter of James Cotten, who was from
Guilford County, North Carolina, and who was in
the battle of Guilford Court House, at the age of
sixteen. His future wife, Nancy Johnson, was then
a young girl living in hearing of the battle at the
Court House. About the beginning of the past
century, 1800, my Grandfather Cotten, with his
wife, her brother Abner Johnson, and their relatives,
Gideon and William Pillow, and their sister,
Mrs. Dew, moved out from North Carolina into
Tennessee, stopping in Davidson County, near
Nashville. Later Abner Johnson and the Pillows
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Barron, S. B. The Lone Star defenders; a chronicle of the Third Texas cavalry, Ross brigade, book, 1908; New York. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth27719/m1/16/: accessed April 27, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Dallas Public Library.