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Milam Marion Fitzgerald
18 Jan 1844 – 17 Jan 1922
| Birth | 18 Jan 1844 |
| Death | 17 Jan 1922 |
| Cemetery | Confederate Cemetery San Antonio , Bexar County , Texas , USA |
| Added by | Bonnie on 03 Jan 2011 |
| FaG | https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/63675917 |
Bio
FITZGERALD, MILAM M. Milam M. Fitzgerald, of San Antonio, was born at Liberty, Liberty County, Texas, in 1843. His father, T. R. Fitzgerald, a native of Georgia, came to this state about 1836, locating in Liberty County, where he became well known as a planter and stockman, and his death occurred at his home in Liberty during the Civil war. Milam M. Fitzgerald was early inured to the duties of a farmer and stockman, and at the early age of sixteen years, in 1861, enlisted for service in the Civil war, becoming a member of Company F, Fifth Texas Infantry, which became a part of Hood's Texas Brigade in the Army of Virginia. This company was recruited by Mr. Fitzgerald's uncle, Colonel King D. Bryan, who later in the war became a brigade commander. Mr. Fitzgerald has a splendid military record, having participated in all the historic battles in Virginia, such as Chancellorsville, the Wilderness Spotsylvania, Lynchburg, Antietam, in the seven days battle before Richmond, and also in the battle of Gettysburg, and toward the close of the struggle was in service some in Tennessee and Mississippi. When the war had ended and the country no longer needed his services Mr. Fitzgerald returned to his home in Texas, and soon thereafter became employed in the Commercial Express service on the old Texas and New Orleans Railroad running between Houston and Beaumont. After this company sold to the Adams Express Company Mr. Fitzgerald went to Galveston to take a position in the crockery department of Burton & Company's store, but soon thereafter came to Gonzales County to embark in the stock business and for a long number of years he was one of the most prominent stockmen of Southern Texas. During eighteen years of that period he made regular trips over the trails with cattle to Kansas, and it is said that there is hardly any other one man who took as much stock to the northern markets as did he during those years, while at the same time these drives were fraught with much hardship and adventure, especially during the early seventies when the Indians were troublesome, and he had many encounters with them. In 1901 Mr. Fitzgerald took up his abode in San Antonio, which city has ever since continued as his home and where he has gained recognition among its leading businessmen. During the first five years of his residence here he served as deputy United States marshal under George L. Siebrecht, retiring from that position in the spring of 1906, and since that time he has held the position of custom officer at the Government bonded warehouse on Buena Vista Street. He is a man of prominence, and is widely known as a native Texan, as a soldier, as a stockman and as a public official. In Gonzales County, Texas, Mr. Fitzgerald was married to Miss Gussie Kokernot, of the well-known family of that name, and they have four living children: Mrs. Maud Sturgis, Sam M. Fitzgerald, Mrs. Mattie Josephine Watts and David L. (A Twentieth Century History of MSouthwest Texas Vol 2, Lewis Publishing Company, 1907
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Milam M Fitzgerald Pvt Inf 2 Brigade Texas State Trp Confederate States Army 1844 - 1922
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- Madelina Fitzgerald McMonagle 1875–1957 FaG
- Edna Evelyne Fitzgerald 1877–1892 FaG
- Samuel Michael Fitzgerald 1878–1949 FaG
- Margaret F Fitzgerald Irish 1882–1939 FaG
- Blanche Fitzgerald Harnden 1906–1906 FaG
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