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Submitted: 8/12/21 • Approved: 8/19/21 • Last Updated: 8/22/21 • R446572-G0-S3
Company F 8th Texas Infantry
Alfred Marmaduke Hobby's Regiment
Civil War Confederate
Unknown - January 16, 1911
Louis/Lewis Augustus Barlow was born in Troy, New York in December between 1829 and 1830 to Mansfield Barlow, Jr. and Ester "Eliza" Maura Daniels. He was the second born son and one of eight children born to Mansfield and Eliza.
On May 14, 1862, in Goliad, Texas, Lewis Barlow joined the Confederate Army and was a member of Alfred Marmaduke Hobby's Regiment; Company F of the 8th Texas Infantry.
Immediately after his enlistment he was in the hospital for several months; his ailment is unknown. Further records show his presence until March of 1864 when he was furloughed for 40 days. No further records of Barlow's service have been found, but he claimed he was active with Company F until the end of the war, concluding he returned to duty after the furlough.
A fourth company under Edwin E. Hobby was added on June 20, 1862, and a fifth, under José M. Peñaloza, completed the battalion. The battalion trained at Camp Charles Russell near Banquete, Texas until July 19, 1862, when it was ordered to defend Corpus Christi as a part of the Twenty-ninth Brigade. There it was joined by various other units of light artillery and mounted rifles and in February 1863 became the Eighth Texas Infantry regiment.
As a battalion, the force prevented a federal invasion at Corpus Christi in August 1862 and in September captured J. W. Kittridge of the federal fleet. In 1863, after organization of the regiment, the Eighth guarded Fort Esperanza on Matagorda Island, kept a battery on Mustang Island, and in May drove Union troops off St. Joseph's Island. In the fall of 1863 superior Union forces under Nathaniel P. Banks were able to force Hobby's troops back to the San Antonio River. After December 1863 they were ordered transferred to East Texas, but many entered Waul's Legion instead. Part of the Eighth regiment was stationed on Galveston Island in the winter of 1863; other units in the area of Indianola and Lavaca engaged in skirmishes with the federals as late as February 1864. Most of the units fought under Thomas N. Waul in the battles of Mansfield and the Red River Campaign. From April 1864 until the end of the conflict, most of the eighth was employed in coastal defense in Texas. The regiment was mustered out of service on May 22, 1865.
After the war, Lewis made a little known town called Blaconia his home. It was located in Bee County, Texas in an area that was located in Refugio County until 1857 when it morphed into its own county. To make a living, Lewis was a gardener. It is unclear what year he was married, it appears his wife's name could have been Eleanor. He was widowed at his time of death.
Mr. Barlow died on January 16, 1911 in Austin, Travis County, Texas, at approximately 81 years of age in the Texas Confederate Home where he had lived for 15-17 years. His cause of death was heart failure.
**All of his records show his name as "Lewis" vs. "Louis" on his grave marker.**
Contributed on 8/12/21
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