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Thomas Emory Sherwood was born in Washington County, Indiana, to Rev. Jeremiah Sherwood and Sarah Elrod on May 31, 1835. Around 1842, Sherwood’s parents moved the family to Kauffman County, Texas, where his father was a Methodist Minister. On October 30, 1856, he married Nancy (Nannie) Lavinia McCreary in Rockwall, Texas, which was in ...
A military service number of the Regular Army. Service numbers were used by the United States Army from 1918 until 1969. Prior to this time, the Army relied on muster rolls as a means of indexing enlisted service members while officers were usually listed on yearly rolls maintained by the United States War Department.
The Texas–Indian wars were a series of conflicts between settlers in Texas and the Southern Plains Indians during the 19th-century. Conflict between the Plains Indians and the Spanish began before other European and Anglo-American settlers were encouraged—first by Spain and then by the newly Independent Mexican government—to colonize Texas in order to provide a protective-settlement ...
Texas Cherokees were the small settlements of Cherokee people who lived temporarily in what is now Texas, after being forcibly relocated from their homelands, primarily during the time that Spain, and then Mexico, controlled the territory. After the Cherokee War of 1839, the Cherokee communities in Texas were once again forcibly removed to ...
The United States recognized Texan independence on March 3, 1836, when U.S. President Andrew Jackson nominated Alcée La Branche as Chargée d'affaires to Texas.Diplomatic relations began when the U.S. Secretary of State accepted the credentials of William H. Wharton, Texan Minister to the United States, on March 6, 1837.
AggieNetwork.com. The Association of Former Students is the official alumni association of Texas A&M University and operates as a 501 (c) (3) organization. [1] The association recognizes over 640,000 people as part of the Aggie Network and oversees 251 clubs worldwide. [2] Known to Aggies as simply The Association, the group is dedicated to ...
More than 100 killed. The Battle of the Neches, the main engagement of the Cherokee War of 1838–1839 (part of the Texas–Indian Wars ), took place on 15–16 July in 1839 in what is now the Redland community (between Tyler and Ben Wheeler, Texas ). It resulted from the Córdova Rebellion and Texas President Mirabeau Bonaparte Lamar 's ...
October 20, 1861. (1861-10-20) (aged 53) Battle of Leon Creek, Texas. Occupation (s) American frontiersman, Texas Revolution hero, Republic of Texas soldier, Texas Rangers. Moses Lapham (October 16, 1808 – 1838) was a soldier in the Texas Army during the Texas Revolution, noted for a daring action during the Battle of San Jacinto that helped ...