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1Lewis, William Terrell of Perryville, Miss. 1893., Lewis Family in America, Genealogy of the (From the Middle of the Seventeenth Century Down to the Present Time), Higginson Publishing in Salem, Massachusetts.
Exerpts provided by Michael Lewis Monroe <mlmono@infi.net> who has edited 1100 pages of William Terrell Lewis' original book.
"Served in the Mexican war as captain of an infantry company with much credit, and is now a farmer near Leavenworth, Kansas. They have children, viz.:."
1Lewis, William Terrell of Perryville, Miss. 1893., Lewis Family in America, Genealogy of the (From the Middle of the Seventeenth Century Down to the Present Time), Higginson Publishing in Salem, Massachusetts, P 167.
Exerpts provided by Michael Lewis Monroe <mlmono@infi.net> who has edited 1100 pages of William Terrell Lewis' original book.
"Was a soldier in the Confederate war. He was a captain at first but was soon promoted for his gallantry to the office of major under General Roger W. Hanson, his brother-in-law."2Lewis, William Terrell of Perryville, Miss. 1893., Lewis Family in America, Genealogy of the (From the Middle of the Seventeenth Century Down to the Present Time), P 168.
The announcement of the death of Major Charles W. Helm, which occurred this morning at 1 o5 CONC ock at the family residence, No. 937 Wood street, was received with feelings of general regret. Many did not think him so low as until the past few days of his illness he continued to come down to his office. Finally his strength became so exhausted that he was confined to his bed until he breathed his last. He possessed all the noble qualities that went to make the man; was kind, considerate and generous. He was a man that made friends and kept them. The funeral will take place from the residence at 10 o5 CONC d a severe attack of fever last summer from which he never fully recovered. He appeared to mend for a time and his friends thought he would regain his health, but he began to decline and gradually grew worse until the last. The lamented was born the 16th day of July, 1834. His full name was Charles Warfield Helm, and he graduated with honors at the University of Virginia at the age of twenty-three."
" Major Helm died in 1888, when the following obituary appeared in a Dallas, Texas, paper:
DEATH OF MAJOR HELM, 1888. A PROMINENT CITIZEN AND A MAN OF MARK IS GONE.
1Lewis, William Terrell of Perryville, Miss. 1893., Lewis Family in America, Genealogy of the (From the Middle of the Seventeenth Century Down to the Present Time), Higginson Publishing in Salem, Massachusetts, P 168.
GENERAL ROGER W. HANSON.
Exerpts provided by Michael Lewis Monroe <mlmono@infi.net> who has edited 1100 pages of William Terrell Lewis' original book.
"Was a lawyer by profession. He was a lieutenant under Captain Williams in the Mexican war; was a general in the Confederate war of 1861, and was mortally wounded at Stone River, near Murfreesboro, Tenn., in January, 1863. He married Virginia Peters in 1853, but left no children. We clip the following from the Mississippian:
[ For the Mississippian.] Roger Weightman Hanson was a son of Samuel Hanson, Esq., a distinguished lawyer of Clark county, Kentucky. His mother (Matilda) was the daughter of General Richard Hickman, of the same county. Roger W. was born about the year 1827. His life has been an eventful one. At eighteen years of age he was elected lieutenant in a volunteer company raised in Clark county, Kentucky, for the Mexican war. He distinguished himself by his bravery in the battle of Cerro Gordo and other places during said war. While attending a law class in Lexington, Ky., he was forced into a duel, when he received a shot above the knee, breaking the bone badly and laming him for life. During this affair of honor he acted with the utmost coolness and deliberation. As soon as he recovered from his wound he set out with the then emigrating tide for California. During his journey there he underwent many privations and hardships losing his horse on the way, he walked the last two hundred miles with a stiff knee. On his arrival in San Francisco broken down with travel, hungry, without means he spent his first night under a board shelter. But the urbanity of his manners and suavity of his address soon made him friends and secured him employment. He remained in California but a short time, returning to his native State the ensuring spring. LOUISVILLE, MISS., February 7, 1863 WM. T. LEWIS. [ From Louisville Courier-Journal, 1861.]
In 1853 he married Miss Virginia Peters, of Woodford county, Kentucky. In 1854 he located in Lexington to practice his profession, when he soon rose to eminence as a lawyer. Within a few years he was elected by his county to represent them in the State Legislature. Soon afterward he was appointed as one of the Presidential electors for the State of Kentucky, after which he was nominated as a candidate for a seat in the United States Congress, but was defeated by James B. Clay. In 1861 when the Southern States seceded from the United States he espoused the cause of the South, raised a regiment in Kentucky and joined the Confederacy, resolved to sink or swim with her. He was taken prisoner at Fort Donelson, where he commanded the 2d Kentucky Regiment, of Breckinridge4 CONC r of Fort Donelson, remarked that I can not close this report without calling special attention to the gallant and able conduct of my brigade commanders, Colonel R. W. Hanson and others. After he was exchanged, his Kentucky friends in the South made up a purse of five hundred dollars, purchased a splendid war horse which they presented to him on his arrival as a token of their esteem for his distinguished heroism and moral worth. He was afterward promoted to the office of Brigadier-General and consigned to a command in Breckinridge4 CONC agg4 CONC l fighting up to the 2d day of January, 1863, when he fell upon the battle-field, mortally wounded, at Murfreesboro whilst gallantly leading his brigade, unfaltering amidst an enfiladed hailstorm of shot and shell, upon the bloodiest and hottest contested portion of the battle field. He expired soon after the army retreated from Murfreesboro. In his death Kentucky has lost one of her noblest and bravest sons, and the Confederacy one of her intrepid and gallant officers. LOUISVILLE, August 14. Roger Hanson, heretofore classed as a quasi-submissionist, spoke at Lexington, denouncing the war, saying Southerners would lose their slaves, burn their cotton and sink their plantation, but never yield. [ From American Rural Home.] Mrs. Virginia Hanson, widow of Colonel Roger Hanson killed in the war, has been re-elected State Librarian by the Kentucky Legislature. This is her third term, and it is said the State never had a better librarian. The remains of General Hanson were buried in Tennessee, but in the fall of 1866 his widow had his body removed from Tennessee to Lexington, Ky., where it was re-interred in the cemetery with all the honors due so gallant a soldier and the cause for which he died. [ For the Sunday Advertiser and Register. ]
THE MARTYRS OF THE SOUTH.
BY A. B. MEEK. General Hanson's cause. Oh, weep not for the gallant hearts
Who fell in battle
They well performed their hero parts,
And passed from earth away.
They lie asleep on honor Young Freedom
For all that
For God and native land. Weep not for Jackson, who laid down
His life in fullest fame;
Who always wore the victor
Now wears a deathless name.
O! what a loss that day was ours,
When that great light grew dim;
We weep amid our darkened bowers,
But do not weep for him. For Sidney Johnston whose high worth
Was Freedom
Who, like Elijah, passed from earth
In battle
Shed not a tear he is not dead
But UP from Shiloh gone !
Where wreaths ambrosial deck his head,
Beside great Washington. Weep not for Garnett, his young brow
Among the earliest paled;
Though death compelled his form to bow,
His spirit never quailed.
Among Virginia
With Garland by his side,
And Starke they fought for ravished rights,
And for their country died. Oh, for McCulloch, do not weep
The Marion of the West
Nor for Bartow, nor Bee but keep
Their memories in the breast.
They realized man
In victory
We all must die, or soon or late
How blest like them to die ! Fair Mississippi
Brave Barksdale, too, has gone,
And Zollicoffer
And Green and brave Mouton.
Kentucky
With Helm and Branch as well;
Pour not for them the stream of woe
With angels now they dwell. A curse upon the felon foe
Freebooters of the West
Who hurled their red assassin blow
On gallant Gladden
Gregg, Griffith, Tilghman, Seymour, Cobb,
Now live with him in death;
The gaunt hyenas can not rob
The grave of its green wreath. For Alabama
Though humbler be their names,
Why should the selfish tear be shed?
They now are God
Rest Irby, Webb, Jones, Hobbs and Hale,
Rest Jewett, Summers, Moore.
Inge, Garrett, Lomax, Pelham, Baine,
On death
What stars crowd out upon the sky,
Of history, as I write !
Would I could number them on high,
The planets of our night.
They live immortal, and for them
We need not drop the tear ;
Each wears a golden diadem
In a celestial sphere. But we must weep - aye deeply mourn
For our ownselves bereft,
The priesthood from our altars torn,
Our homes in darkness left,
The widowed and the orphan band
On fate
Weep for the anguish-stricken land
That such great souls has lost."
