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Article from the Confederate Veteran magazine, dated
August ,1924 No. 8.
On November 29, 1923, after an illness of several months, COL. GIDEON EGG died at his home in Edna. Tex. He was born in Switzerland on Dec. 16, 1839 and as a lad of 15 ,left his native land with his partents, sisters, and brothers, to establish a home in America, the family locating near Goliad, Tex.
At the beginning of the War Between the States, he volunteered for the South, enlisting in Company C, of Sibley's First Regiment and later served in Tom Green's Brigade. His first service was in New Mexico where he participated in the battles of Val Verde and Glorietta, being captured at the latter battle but was paroled. When exchanged, he joined his regiment at El Paso, which then reported to Major Scurry in Houston... his company was captured at New Iberia and taken to New Orleans, where they were exchanged...
In Dec. 1873, he married MISS EMILE KAAPKE of Indianola, and they reared a family of five sons and three daughters. For 50 years he was in the merchantile business in Jackson County.
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