And outside Tyler is the remains of the largest POW camp west of the Mississippi (after the battle at Mansfield, La.).
One of my great grandfathers was in the battle of Mansfield; another served at Camp Ford (the POW camp mentioned above.) He was in a Texas Cavalry Unit
While I'm at it: Another Texas great grandfather was captured at the Battle of Chickamauga. The other of my great grandfathers came to Texas right after the war. He was a Captain in a Georgia Infantry Company which was among the troops who surrendered at Vicksburg--and, incidentally, who re-formed and kept on fighting.
Keeping score: three great grandfathers in Texas units, the other in a Georgia unit. I have visited the sites where each served--and many other Civil War Battlefields.
