Captain Isaac Newton Moreland Turner, C.S.A.
( April 3, 1839~April 15, 1863 )
Submitted by Theresa Neal
"Isaac Newton Moreland (Ike) Turner was born in Putnam
County
Georgia. His father, J.A.S. Turner, was a plantation
owner with
Texas land holding in Polk and Liberty Counties.
The Turner Family
moved to Texas prior to the outbreak of the Civil War.
Ike Turner helped to organize and train a mounted artillery
company
of 80 Polk County volunteers for the Confederacy.
Turner, who was
elected Captain, assembled his company at the courthouse
in Livingston
on September 3, 1861. He led them to serve in Virginia
as Company K,
5th Texas Infantry, in Gen. John Bell Hood's Texas Brigade.
The youngest
Company Commander in Hood's Texas Brigade, Capt.Turner
led his
troops in 26 battles, mostly in Virginia. He was
injured twice before
suffering a fatal wound near Suffolk, Virginia.
Capt. Turner's brother, Charles, took his body by train
to be buried at
the family's former plantation "Turnwold" near Milledgeville,
Georgia.
Family legend maintained that it was Capt. Turner's wish
to be buried
in his family's cemetery in Texas. In 1994 his
remains were disinterred
and transported from Georgia to Texas and buried here
among his
family members."
{Texas Historical Commission-1997}