Benjamin L. Bowen's :
The Exploits of Waul's Texas Legion Table
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William M. Bowen Served with Waul's Texas Legion Of the C.S.A. His release papers indicate that he was stationed at Camp Waul in July of 1862:
Camp Waul,
a Confederate training camp, was at
Old Gay Hill,seven miles north of Brenham in Washington County. New Year's
Creek ran through the camp, which bordered the southern boundary of Glenblythe
Plantation. Camp Waul was named for Thomas Neville Waul. After Waul's Legion
was organized at Brenham on May 13, 1862, it trained at Camp Waul until
it was ordered out of state on August 18, 1862. During training a severe
measles epidemic resulted in the illness of 600 soldiers, but not many died.
Soldiers from Austin, Fayette, and Washington counties trained at Camp Waul.
During its brief existence, the camp had plentiful food but shortages of
arms and other supplies.
BIBLIOGRAPHY: John Duff Brown, "Reminiscences of Jno. Duff Brown,"
Southwestern Historical Quarterly 12 (April 1909). Robert A. Hasskarl,
Waul's Texas Legion, 1862-1865 (Ada, Oklahoma: Book Bindery, 1976).
Carole E. Christian
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Last Updated: February 12, 1999
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Devils Backbone is located just east of farm road 484, and runs along hwy 32 to San Marcos.
DEVIL'S BACKBONE (Comal County). The Devil's Backbone, a ridge in northeastern Comal County, is on the Hays county line thirteen miles north of New Braunfels (at 29°56' N, 98°10' W). The ridge runs east to west, rising to an elevation of 1,274 feet at a roadside park on State Highway 32. It lies in an area of the Balcones Escarpment characterized by flat to rolling terrain with locally deep and dense dissection and generally shallow to deep loamy soil with rock outcrops. Local vegetation consists mainly of live oak and Ashe juniper woods.
DEVIL'S BACKBONE (Montague County). The Devil's Backbone is a narrow ridge five miles northwest of St. Jo in east central Montague County (at 33°44' N, 97°30' W). The ridge, with an elevation of 1,225 feet, was used between the 1850s and the mid-1870s by Comanches and Kiowas as a military lookout to monitor the movements of the Anglo-Americans who moved into the county and established the nearby settlements of St. Jo, Bonita, and Capps Corner.
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