By:  Barrientos                                       S.C.R. No. 98
       73R6555 NBM-F
                                 CONCURRENT RESOLUTION
    1-1        WHEREAS, The Battle of Shiloh, fought in Southwestern
    1-2  Tennessee in early April 1862, was one of the most lethal
    1-3  engagements of the American Civil War, involving over 100,000 men
    1-4  on both sides and resulting in 25,000 casualties in two days; and
    1-5        WHEREAS, Neither side had anticipated such slaughter or made
    1-6  adequate preparations for its aftermath, and matters were
    1-7  exacerbated by the undeveloped state of medicine; on the
    1-8  Confederate side alone, hundreds of wounded men who had been placed
    1-9  in a wagon train to Corinth died en route and were buried in
   1-10  unmarked graves along the way; and
   1-11        WHEREAS, Among those lost was Private Charles S. Dyer,
   1-12  H Company, 9th (Young's) Texas Infantry, who was critically wounded
   1-13  in the fighting on April 6th and died one week later; and
   1-14        WHEREAS, He typified many young mid-19th century Southern
   1-15  men; born in Georgia in the late 1820s, he moved with his family to
   1-16  Arkansas, where he married and became a widower, then moved to
   1-17  Fannin County, Texas, where he married Mary Ann Lackey (nee
   1-18  Waldrum), farmed, and worked on the roads being built between
   1-19  Bonham and Sherman; and
   1-20        WHEREAS, In June 1861, he joined a local militia unit, the
   1-21  Caney Creek Mounted Infantry, and was elected second lieutenant;
   1-22  late that same year, he enlisted as a private in the Confederate
   1-23  Army and in January 1862 set out on a fateful march through
   1-24  Arkansas and Mississippi and into Tennessee; and
    2-1        WHEREAS, Private Dyer was survived by his second wife, their
    2-2  four children, his daughter from his first marriage, and a
    2-3  stepdaughter; the twice-widowed Mary Ann Dyer lived until 1892 and
    2-4  is buried in Belcherville; and
    2-5        WHEREAS, It is the desire of Private Dyer's
    2-6  great-great-grandson, Patrick M. Reilly, of Austin, to place a
    2-7  marker honoring his esteemed ancestor in the State Cemetery in
    2-8  Austin, which is the final resting place of Albert Sidney Johnston,
    2-9  who commanded the Confederate forces at Shiloh and was himself
   2-10  mortally wounded there; now, therefore, be it
   2-11        RESOLVED, That the 73rd Texas Legislature hereby grant
   2-12  Patrick M. Reilly permission to erect a cenotaph in the State
   2-13  Cemetery in honor of his distinguished great-great-grandfather,
   2-14  Private Charles Samuel Dyer, CSA; and, be it further
   2-15        RESOLVED, That an official copy of this resolution be
   2-16  prepared for Mr. Reilly as an expression of the sentiment of the
   2-17  Legislature of the State of Texas.