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Submitted: 1/28/13 • Approved: 1/29/13 • Last Updated: 2/1/13 • R822682-G0-S3
MAJOR CSA
Civil War Confederate
August 15,1834 - August 15,1898
Husband of Mary Angelia Carroll Cabell
Son of Gen Benjamin William Sheridan and Sallie Epes Doswell Cabell
Major Cabell was a native of Virginia and one of seven sons of Gen B W L Cabell, of Danville, Va. Six of the sons were in the Confederate army at the same time. Deceased moved to Arkansas in 1853.
He married in that state and has resided there ever since. He was a gallant soldier in the Confederate service. He commanded a company at Oak Hill, where he was wounded on the 10th day of August, 1861. He was also at the battle of Elk Horn. After that, he was assigned to duty as quartermaster with the rank of Major, and he served on the staffs of Generals Steele and E Kirby Smith until the close of the war.
August 21, 1898, Dallas Daily Times Herald, p. 5, col. 3.
Contributed on 1/28/13 by bill060
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