Pvt. (CSA), Enos Truss

Enos served as Private, Company A, 10th Regiment, Alabama Infantry in the Confederate States Army. He spent 21 months in a Federal Army (Union) prison camp. After the war, about 1868, he and his parents loaded their belongings in four wagons drawn by horses and oxen, seated the women and children in them, and headed west.

As soon as they reached Dallas County, Enos rented a farm at New Hope for a year. He then bought 336 acres near Rose Hill and moved there. He freighted his cotton crop overland to Jefferson and the waiting river steamers during his first years in Dallas County. After he died, his widow and children moved to Mesquite.

A family story concerning the "Great Mesquite Train Robbery" of 10 April 1878. Members of the gang with Sam Bass, after robbing the west bound Texas and Pacific, came to their house and spent the night. Versions of the story conflict in whether they were prisoners or "guests" in the custom of the day to lodge and feed whomever came for the night.

Bio compiled from information provided by Diane Miller, Melba Lambert Straigis and Marilyn Kosanke.

Truss, Enos BATTLE UNIT NAME: 10th Regiment, Alabama Infantry SIDE: Confederacy COMPANY: A
SOLDIER'S RANK IN: Private SOLDIER'S RANK OUT: Private ALTERNATE NAME: FILM NUMBER: M374 ROLL 45 PLAQUE NUMBER: NOTES: none