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From: "Bonnie C. Segui" <>
Subject: Re: [COUCH] Re: Lou Couch in Texas for the Confederacy
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2001 21:15:59 -0500
References: <200104272311.TAA29735@hall.mail.mindspring.net>


Thanks Bob,
I'll keep looking for my ancestor. I have visited Auburn and talked
with a number of individuals, but no one can seem to locate a cemetery.

Thanks, Bonnie Couch
----- Original Message -----
From: "Couch, Robert H. " <>
To: <>
Sent: Friday, April 27, 2001 7:02 PM
Subject: Re: [COUCH] Re: Lou Couch in Texas for the Confederacy


> Bonnie,
>
> I do not know a lot of details about the hospital. In 1864 more than 400
> confederate soldiers were housed there for treatment. I have a book
> containing a letter from John B. Baylor to the Daily Telegraph Newspaper
in
> Houston (Aug 17, 1864) telling of his visit to Texas Hospitalin Auburn.
He
> called for funds for the hospital. No names nor markers are contained in
> the Pine Hills Cemetery where the momument is. On the momumment is a poem
> about the Alamo which tells of Brave Texans.
>
> I know of no record of the names of those in the hospital nor in the
graves
> at the cemetery.
>
> Bob Couch
> ----------
> >From: "Bonnie C. Segui" <>
> >To:
> >Subject: Re: [COUCH] Re: Lou Couch in Texas for the Confederacy
> >Date: Thu, Apr 26, 2001, 4:52 PM
> >
>
> >Bob,
> > Can you tell me more about the Confederates who died at Auburn?
Would
> >you happen to have a specific time they were encamped there? I am
looking
> >for a gg grandfather who died there in June 1863.
> >
> > Thanks, Bonnie Couch
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Couch, Robert H. " <>
> >To: <>
> >Sent: Sunday, April 22, 2001 8:30 AM
> >Subject: Re: [COUCH] Re: Lou Couch in Texas for the Confederacy
> >
> >
> >> For those interested in Confederate Texans I have a story to tell. It
> >seems
> >> that during the great war, the Main Hall of what is now Auburn
University
> >in
> >> Al served as a hospital for confederate veterans. Most of these CSA
> >wounded
> >> were from Texas and Texans sent money to operate it. It came to be
known
> >as
> >> the Texas Hospital. Some 98 of these are buried in our old Pine Hill
> >> Cemetery here in Auburn. In 1893 the Ladies' Society of Auburn erected
a
> >> momument on the site where these Texans are buried in unmarked graves.
> >Our
> >> annual Lantern Tour of the Cemetery featured this site and the monument
> >just
> >> this week. It is a lovely resting place for almost 100 fallen Texas
> >> Comrades of the Confedracy.
> >>
> >> Bob Couch
> >> ----------
> >> >From: Millers <>
> >> >To:
> >> >Subject: [COUCH] Re: Lou Couch in Texas for the Confederacy
> >> >Date: Thu, Apr 19, 2001, 6:51 AM
> >> >
> >>
> >> >Becky,
> >> >
> >> >There are no "LOU"s or "L."s from TX..
> >> >
> >> >Sorry,
> >> >Lanita
> >> >
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