Person:Ambrose Renshaw (1)

Biography/Newspaper

Undated, unidentified newspaper clipping Capt. Ambrose D. Renshaw This venerable old gentleman, possibly the oldest in Wood county, is visiting his daughter, Mrs. W. B. McAllister, out two miles east of town. Capt. Renshaw, as many of our readers know, lives near Shady Grove, in the eastern portion of the county. He is now quite feeble, though his mind is exceptionally active. Mr. McAllister, his son-in-law, kindly furnished us with the following sketch of the life of this pioneer citizen, as follows: “Born in N. C. 18 miles north of Salisbury on the 20th day of May 1819; at the age of 4 years moved with his parents to Jackson Co., Ala. His educational advantages were quite meager, being such as the country of the period offered. He spend one term in the Knoxville University. He was married to Miss Lucinda Taylor on the 13th of February 1845. To this union were born 12 children, 5 boys and 7 girls, and of this number there are now living 5, two sons and three daughters, the others having passed away, three of them in one week. He moved from Ala. To Harrison county Texas in 1851, where he lived 4 years and in 1855 moved to Wood county and settled near Shady Grove where he has since lived. He was one of the first volunteers in this part of the country to enter the service of the Confederacy. He entered Fitzgerald’s Company as 2nd Lieut., and was made Captain of Co. E. 22nd Texas, when Fitzgerald’s Company was reorganized. This was perhaps in 1862. He was in the service of the Confederacy until the close, but was never in a battle. He joined the Methodist Episcopal Church South, in perhaps, 1862. This grand old man has had an eventful career. His old time friend, Uncle Tom Stephens and wife, went out and spent Friday evening of last week with him and Uncle Tom tells us he is light spirited and says that, in the expression of the Irishmen, “Living men should never complain, and dead ones can’t.”

Military Record

Civil War Record A. D. Renshaw Regiment Name 22 Texas Infantry Side Confederate Company E Soldier's Rank_In 2 Lieutenant Soldier's Rank_Out Captain Film Number M227 roll 30 http://www.civilwar.nps.gov/cwss/soldiers.cfm 22nd Regiment, Texas Infantry (Hubbard's) 22nd Infantry Regiment was organized during the early summer of 1862 using the 5th (Hubbard's) Texas Infantry Battalion as its nucleus. Many of its members were from Palestine, Quitman, Livingston, Mason, and Tyler. The 22nd was attached to O. Young's and Waul's Brigade, Trans-Mississippi Department, and fought in Louisiana and Arkansas including the conflicts at Young's Point and Jenkins' Ferry. Later it moved to Shreveport, Louisiana, then Hempstead, Texas. Here the regiment disbanded before the surrender in June, 1865. Its commanders were Colonel Richard B. Hubbard, Lieutenant Colonels John J. Canon and Elias E. Lott, and Major Benjamin F. Parkes.