Wartime letter of Col. Roger Q. Mills, Commanding 6th, 10th & 15th Texas Infantry, 11/29/1863.
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Wartime letter of Lt. Col. Roger Q. Mills, 10th Texas Infantry, 6/22/1862.
10th Texas Infantry 2005.
Caroline R. "Carrie" Jones [daughter of Henry Jones; wife of Roger Quarles Mills; mother of Charles H. Jones], 1837-1907. Relatives: Henry Jones - father-in-law; Roger Quarles Mills - son-in-law. Roger Quarles Mills - father; Charles H. Mills - son. Henry Jones - grandfather; Charles H. Mills - grandson.
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Roger Q. Mills, birth date 3/30/1832, death date 9/2/1911, photo, burial in Oakwood Cemetery, Corsicana, Navarro County. Grave marker inscription: "Member Texas Legislature (1859-60), Col. 10th Texas Infantry C.S.A (1861-65), Member of Congress (1873-92), United States Senator (1892-99)."
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Mentioned in
Fourteen Hundred and 91 Days in the Confederate Army: A Journal Kept by W.W. Heartsill for Four Years, One Month, and One Day, or Camp Life, Day by Day, of the W.P. Lane Rangers from April 19, 1861, to May 20, 1865 1954.
MILLS, ROGER QUARLES (1832-1911). "During the 1850s Mills moved from the Whig party to the American party and then to the Democratic party."
Handbook of Texas Online .
"He announced for a seat in the legislature against William Croft . . . who defended Sam Houston and unionist views against attacks by Mills and other states' rights Democrats," p. 137. C. Alwyn Barr, "The Making of a Secessionist: The Antebellum Career of Roger Q. Mills," The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 79, Number 2, October 1975, pp. 129-144, crediting Texas State Historical Association.
Portal to Texas History (University of North Texas Libraries) .
Included on list of "Texas Know Nothing Leaders with a Summary of Biographical Data Taken from the . . . United States Eighth Census, 1860." The party was active at the state level in Texas in 1855 and 1856. "By 1857 the party had virtually disappeared in Texas." "An Analysis of the Texas Know Nothings," The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 70, Number 3, January 1967, pp. 414-423, crediting Texas State Historical Association.
Portal to Texas History (University of North Texas Libraries) .
"Colonel Henry Jones Dying," Fort Worth Daily Gazette, 12/27/1888, p. 6; Obituary, Colonel Henry Jones, Fort Worth Daily Gazette, 1/2/1889, p. 6. Relatives: Henry Jones - father-in-law; Roger Quarles Mills - son-in-law.
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