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Submitted: 1/22/14 • Approved: 1/23/14 • Last Updated: 3/26/18 • R2798-G0-S3
Veteran Confederate States Army
Company A of the Third Texas Cavalry
Texas Hunters
Civil War Confederate
January 1, 1844 -February 5, 1893
Born in Victoria, Texas - Died in Myrtle Springs, Texas
Poet, Editor, Historian and Soldier
From the founders of Victoria
He gathered the fragments from the
past and wove them into the
history of Victoria County.
In June 1861, Rose joined Company A of the Third Texas Cavalry, known as the "Texas Hunters," under Col. Elkanah Greer. The regiment was attached to Benjamin McCulloch's command and later to Ross's Brigade. Rose was wounded at least three times, once severely, in various campaigns, and ultimately imprisoned at notorious Camp Chase, Ohio, where he almost died of starvation. He was released in 1865 and recovered at Vicksburg.
In 1866, Rose married Julia Hardy, who after giving birth to a daughter died during the city's yellow fever epidemic of 1867. Rose himself almost succumbed. Rose was admitted to the bar in 1870 and was co-editor and publisher of the Victoria Advocate from 1869 to 1873. He moved to Laredo in the early 1880s, following a supposedly scandalous love affair, and became editor of the Laredo Times. He wrote a number of volumes of poetry and historical books, including Victor Rose's History of Victoria. Before his death of pneumonia on Feb. 5, 1893, he was editor of a newspaper in Myrtle Springs.
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You may read more about Victor Rose, including the works he published as a historian at: http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/RR/fro73.html
written by Craig H. Roell
http://www.viptx.net/vcgs/evergreencem.html
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