Photograph.
David Hamilton,Texas State Library and Archives Commission
Other Resources
Biographical sketch, D.H. Hamilton, by Wilma Smith Orwick. Birth date 8/8/1843.
Ancestry.com .
Confederate States Army, Company M, 1st Texas Regiment, Hood's Texas Brigade. D.H. Hamilton, born circa 1844 in Mississippi, death date 5/30/1929 in Trinity County, widow Mrs. Mary J. Hamilton, marriage date 10/8/1867 in Trinity County. Pension File Nos. 30464 (D.H. Hamilton) and 45737 (D.H. Hamilton), Alabama, Texas and Virginia, U.S., Confederate Pensions, 1884-1958.
Ancestry.com .
"Rick Perry: From Aggie Yell Leader to Texas Governor, Farmer's Son Stands on Side of Tradition," 2/10/2010. Relatives: D.H. Hamilton - Rick Perry's great-great-grandfather.
Austin American-Statesman .
Confederate States Army, Sergeant, Company M, Texas Volunteer Infantry. Military grave marker, David H. Hamilton, birth date 8/7/1843, death date 5/30/1929, portrait, burial in Bennett Cemetery, Apple Springs, Trinity County. Great-great-grandfather of Gov. Rick Perry of Texas.
Find a Grave .
D.H. Hamilton's personal narrative of Civil War experience in LRL collection, 973.7 H18H 1925.
History of Company M: First Texas Volunteer Infantry, Hood's Brigade, Longstreet's Corps, Army of the Confederate States of America, 1925 1962.
Confederate States Army, Sergeant, Company M, 1st Texas Infantry, Hood's Brigade. David Henry Hamilton.
Texas Burial Sites of Civil War Notables: A Biographical and Pictorial Field Guide 2002.