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Home Town of Texas Confederate
GeneralElkanah Greer
(1825-1877)
Born Tennessee. Fought Mexican War. Came to Texas 1848. Commissioned colonel and raised 3rd Texas Cavalry. Attached to Ross' Texas Brigade. Fought at Wilson's Creek, Mo. Led brigade, division in Pea Ridge, Ark. Battle. Resigned commission but was recalled as Brigadier General October 1862. Chief Conscription Bureau for Confederacy west of Mississippi 1863. Worked to reconcile Confederate and Texas draft laws. Commanded Texas Reserved Corps in 1864-65 keeping them in readiness to withstand threatened Union coastal invasion. Organized slave labor to build roads, fortifications for state defense. Buried Memphis, Tenn.
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Knights
of The Golden Circle
Elkanah Greer was Grand Commander of the Knights of the Golden Circle in Texas.
Organized 1854, this secret order meant to extend slaveholding territories.
The Golden Circle centered in Havana and had a 1200-mile radius. Member Knights lived however in such remote places as New York and California. Tobacco, sugar, cotton, and possibly rice and coffee were to be the world trade monopoly of the Golden Circle. In first expansion attempt in 1860, failed to take Mexico. 1861-65 in Texas, Golden Circle Knights
formed military units, guarded, captured forts, and helped expel subversives. The Civil War swallowed up the activities of the Knights of the Golden Circle.
A memorial to Texans
who served in the Confederacy
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