Calvin Crozier #13 Children of the Confederacy
In 1891, Crozier's remains were moved from the field in which he was carelessly tossed, and placed in the Rosemont Cemetery by the citizens of Newberry. In 1913, the UDC erected a memorial to Crozier on the spot on he died. On the marker are these words, and a quote from an O'Hara poem:
Calvin Crozier
Born
At Brandon, Miss.
Murdered at Newberry, S.C.
September 8, 1865
Rest on embalmed and sainted dead
Dear as the blood you gave,
No impious footsteps here shall tread,
The herbage of your grave,
Nor shall your glory be forgot,
While fame her record keeps,
Or honor points the hallowed spot
Where valor proudly sleeps.
Calvin Crozier enlisted in Dallas in Good's Battery, but later switched units to the company raised by future Confederate General Richard M. Gano, who was from Tarrant County. Gano's unit went by several designations after it joined the famous brigade of General John Hunt Morgan. It was referred to as the Third Regiment, Morgans Brigade, or as the 7th Kentucky .
Calvin Crozier was murdered by Union Troops on his way home to Texas at the end of the war in 1865. He was protecting a group of Southern ladies on the train.
Calvin Crozier
A Confederate Hero
CALVIN CROZIER