I recently purchased a new book titled "Lee's Colonels" by Robert K. Krick. I found several items that interested me and I thought I might share a couple with you.

"Quattlebaum, Paul Jones, b. near Leesville, South Carolina, May 19, 1836, Lt. U. S. Infantry, 1857-1861, Lt. Of infantry appointed from South Carolina March 16, 1861. Major, 5th Texas, Oct. 2, 1861. Transferred to be assistant adjutant general Engineer in Mobile. Died Jan. 4, 1883, at Columbus, Georgia. Buried Covington, Kentucky."

"Thruston, Stephen Decatur. B. Gloucester Co., Virginia, Nov. 28, 1833; attended University of Virginia, gr. University of Pennsylvania. M. D. Physician in Brunswick County, North Carolina. Capt. Co. B., 3rd North Carolina, May 18, 1861. Major - July 1, 1862. Lieutenant Colonel March 26, 1863, to rank from Dec. 10, 1862. Colonel - Oct. 2, 1863. Wounded at Sharpsburg, Chancellorsville, Spotsylvania, and 3rd Winchester. Went to Texas in the 1870s. Died Dallas November 16, 1906."

"Bass, Frederick Samuel. Born Brunswick Co., Virginia, June 1829, graduated VMI 1851. Teacher in Marshall, Texas, military school. Capt. Co. E., 1st Texas, May 28, 1861. Major - Sept. 17, 1862. Lt. Colonel - 5 January 1864. Colonel - July 15, 1864. Wounded at Darbytown Road, October 6, 1864. Paroled at Appomattox. President of Marshall University in Texas. Died Austin, July 9, 1897. Buried State Cemetery."

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The following was taken from an interview with E. F. DeShazo which appeared in The Herald 11 August 1938:

"Mr. DeShazo was born January 30, 1845 in Talladego County, Alabama, was only 16 years old when he entered the Civil War. He had moved with his parents to Louisiana when he was five years old and was living there when the war began. Although he was really underage when he went into the war, the South needed men and he enlisted only a few months before he would have been called to service.

"At the end of two years of warfare in Louisiana with the Southern forces, Mr. DeShazo was captured by the Northern soldiers in 1863 at Port Hudson, also in Louisiana. Since the rate of exchange of captives of the two armies was very slow, Mr. DeShazo was pressed into service with the wearers of the blue.

"During the rest of the war he served with the Northern army, being stationed at several points in Alabama, Texas and Florida. One of the most interesting of Mr. DeShazo's wartime activities came after the surrender of General Lee when the Southern states were being received back into the union. He was one of the group of soldiers who were stationed at Austin to re-organize the Texas government according to reconstruction requisites.

"The people here in Texas all seemed to be very glad that the was over and treated us very nice, Mr. DeShazo explained. 'The Northern people won the war simply because they had more resources, more equipment and more men.'

"When the business of setting up the government in Austin was done, the soldiers were given their choice of being discharged there or at New Orleans, La. Mr. DeShazo chose New Orleans because that was closer his home. So he was discharged in the old French city Dec. 18, 1865, months after the war officially ended.

'From New Orleans I went home,' Mr. DeShazo continued, 'but my mother had died in 1863, my sister had married and moved to another place, and my father and brothers had broken up housekeeping. I stayed for awhile and then decided to come to Texas to live.'

"Mr. DeShazo settled at Alazan and before very long he and Miss Lucinda Jane Hazlitt of Alazan were married. They had ten children, and lived all their married life in Alazan except for a short time spent in Arkansas. Mrs. DeShazo died about 18 years ago.

.......Content with life, Mr. DeShazo is still amazingly active. With the aid of thick-lensed glasses he can read, and his chief interest lies in newspapers and new periodicals. A tall man, Mr. DeShazo is still a commanding figure, even though he has lost more than 60 pounds in the last ten years.

".....I guess one reason I have lived so long is that I am a man of moderate habits,' Mr. DeShazo explained. 'I've never used tobacco or snuff and I never drank to excess. In fact I didn't drink much when I was a young man and haven't done any of it at all for years.

"When asked whether or not he thought he would live to be 100 years old, Mr. DeShazo smiled and said, 'You know, I just couldn't tell you, but I might.'" [Elbert Franklin DeShazo, born 30 January 1845, died 19 November 1939 so he didn't quite make the 100 year mark. He was the son of John and Martha (Johnson) DeShazo.]