John A. Wharton
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John Austin Wharton was a Confederate general during the American Civil War. A lawyer and plantation owner, he was known for being one of the Confederacy's best tactical cavalry commanders.
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Wharton in Confederate uniform
Wharton monument at Texas State Cemetery in Austin, Texas
George Wythe Baylor
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George Wythe Baylor was a Confederate cavalry officer from Texas, and a veteran of many battles of the American Civil War. He was also a noted lawman and frontiersman with the Texas Rangers.
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…under Lt. Gen. Richard Taylor during the Red River Campaign. Shortly before the end of the war in 1865, a fellow Confederate cavalry officer, Col. George Wythe Baylor (1832–1916) (brother of Confederate Arizona Governor Colonel John R. Baylor), killed Wharton in Houston, Texas, over a simmering dispute on military…
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Baylor in uniform, 1861–65
Henry Mosler's drawing of the death of Johnston at Shiloh