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Lamar Fontaine Chapter 33

Alvin, Brazoria County, Texas
 

MAJOR LAMAR FONTAINE

Lamar Fontaine was born in Washington Co., TX, in 1841, and named after his father’s friend, Gen. Mirabeau Lamar.  He was educated in Austin and at the Military Academy in Bastrop, and learned the duties of a soldier as a Texas Ranger on the frontiers of Western Texas.  In life, he was a soldier, poet, rifle shot expert, surveyor, civil engineer, scientist and author.  As a soldier, Fontaine served in the MS Infantry, and later with the VA Cavalry.  He was a scout and courier participating in twenty-seven battles.  He is best known for sneaking through Union lines to bring supplies to the Rebel army during the siege of Vicksburg.  Taken prisoner in 1864, he became one of the noted “Immortal Six Hundred.”  This group of 520 captured officers were used as human shields by the Union to try and silence the Confederate guns at Fort Sumter.

Author of the poem, All Quiet along the Potomac Tonight, it became one of the most popular songs of the Civil War when it was set to music.  His published works include My Life and My Lectures which was translated into French, A Short Discourse on the Causes of the Lincoln Invasion and Bloody Conquest of the South and Prison Life of One of the Immortal Six Hundred.  In 1921, Major Lamar Fontaine, CSA, died in MS.
 

MEETING SCHEDULE

Meetings are held on the 1st Thursday, 10 or 11 a.m.

2008-2009 Meeting Dates

September 4, Lake Jackson
November 6, West Columbia
December 4, Brazoria
February 5, West Columbia
March 5, Brazoria
April 2, West Columbia
May 7, West Columbia
June 4, Angleton
 

Motto: Benevolent, Memorial, Historical, Educational, and Social

Colors: Red and White

Flower: Magnolia

In Honor of our

Confederate Ancestors
 

William F. Alman

John W. Ates

Alva DeVotie Boggs

Alfred Bradbury
Andrew Jackson Bradbury
James Bradbury
Thomas Henry Bradbury

William Anthony Burrows
Edward Burleson Cannan

Thomas Perry Chesney

James R. Cliett
Joseph M. Cliett

Thomas Chilton
Andrew Jackson Coggin
James Madison Collier
Mitchell Cook

Jesse Jackson Crow

John Tate Dezell
James Nicholas Dinkins
Henry Duke

Jeptha Elliott
Jepthe A. Elliott

Alexander Glass Follett

Randolph G. Foster

Emanuel Graves

Thomas J. Grier

Shelby Smith Griggs

Charles Grober

Daniel Hacker
James Madison Hall

Edward Peyton Hill

Allen Fuller Jones II

Conrad Didier Lauret
Andrew Jackson Lee
Edward Mack
George Mack
Jesse Mack
John Mack

Joseph Marion McCluskey
William McGinnis

Allen P. Mills
Silas Mercer Moorman
Jesse B. Murphree

W. W. S. Myers
Andrew John Neighbours

Ralph Houston Nelson
Stephen Henry Owens
Hezekiah David Patten

William Peterson

William Henry Pittman

George Louis Reinhardt
James J. Ritchie
John R. Ritchie
Parks Washington Sansing
Samuel Marshall Scoggin

Dudley Hammond Thompson

John Washington Vinson

Charles Nelson Wells
Rufus Wilburn

Henry Allen Wood

James David Young