KINSHIP CHART

The table below shows the known familial connection(s) between the named individual and . . . James Madison Hall, the Keeper of the Journal . . . as well as to the Keeper of this family history blog . . .

IN THE JOURNAL	REAL NAME	BORN	LINK TO J.M. HALL (b. 1819)	LINK TO BENOTFORGOT
FATHER	Joshua James Hall	1790	father	2nd husband of widowed 3rd-great-grandma
FAWN aka PET	Florence Mahala Christian Worley? Robinson? Lambert? nee Hall	1860	daughter	1st cousin 3 times removed
FRANK	Frank Stewart	1839	employee & 2nd husband of the little woman	2nd husband of widowed 2nd great-grand-aunt
JIMMY	James Wrigley Hall	1862	son	1st cousin 3 times removed
JOSEPHINE	Josephine Martha Hall	1863	daughter	1st cousin 3 times removed
MAJOR	James Hall Sharp	1863	nephew	great grand uncle
MOTHER	Mahala Lee Sharp Hall nee Roberts	1816	stepmother & mother-in-law	3rd great-grandma
MRS. BEALE	Elizabeth Lemaire Beale nee Waring	1824	mother-in-law of stepbrother	3rd great-grandma
NELLIE aka ALEX	Mary Alexandrien Sharp nee Lemaire	1843	wife of step-brother	2nd great-grandma
ROBERTA aka BERTA aka BURT	Roberta Downes Halyard nee Hall	1852	half-sister to him as well as to his wife	2nd great-grand-aunt
SAM	Samuel Houston Sharp	1839	step-brother & brother-in-law & employee	2nd great-grandpa
THE LITTLE WOMAN	Margaret Annot Hall Stewart nee Sharp	1840	step-sister & wife	2nd great-grand-aunt
TOBY	Horace Oscar Hall	1854	half-brother to him as well as to his wife	2nd great-grand-uncle

Major Eugene Bolling

Eugene Bolling, Confederate officer, was born in 1832 in Tennessee to Yelverton de Mallet Bolling and Sophia Sully of South Carolina. The family relocated to Montgomery, Montgomery County, Alabama, in 1850. Bolling married Carolina E. Gayle in 1853, then moved from Edgefield County, South Carolina, to settle in Galveston County, Texas. He worked as a farmer prior to the Civil War.

Bolling's service record indicates that he enlisted on June 7, 1861, with a rank of captain.

On June 30, 1862, his company and twelve others were mustered into Confederate service at Brenham, Texas, in Washington County. Bolling held the rank of captain in Company G of Nichol's Ninth Regiment but soon commanded Company A of the First Battalion of the First Texas Infantry, known as Waul's Texas Legion.

On May 17, 1863, Waul's Legion was ordered into the confines of Vicksburg and assigned to Maj. Gen. Carter L. Stevenson's division. Captain Bolling was slightly injured during the defense of the city and sometime after was promoted to the rank of major in command of the First Battalion of Waul's Legion following the death of Maj. A. Cameron.

On July 4, 1863, Bolling and his unit surrendered to Union forces at Vicksburg and were paroled on July 5, 1863. Following parole the members of Waul's Texas Legion were returned to Texas where they were reorganized. Bolling then applied to be relieved from field duty for the remainder of the war as a result of a surgeon's opinion that a heart condition affected his service. Bolling's request was granted, and for the remainder of the war he served as major of companies F and S of Timmons's Regiment in the confines of Texas.

He surrendered on June 2, 1865, with the other soldiers under the command of Gen. Edmund Kirby Smith.

After the war Eugene Bolling married Mary Bolling, who survived him in Galveston County and later moved to Grayson County. In 1866 he served as a director of the National Bank of Texas in Galveston. The last known location of Eugene S. Bolling was in Galveston County in 1869. [SIC] According to his findagrave memorial page, he died 02 August 1870 in Cross Keys, Alabama.

BIBLIOGRAPHY: Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations From the State of Texas, NARA microfilm series M323, roll 263, National Archives, Washington D.C. Robert A. Hasskarl and Leif R. Hasskarl, Waul's Texas Legion, 1862–1865 (Ada, Oklahoma: Robert A. Hasskarl, 1985). L.L. Knight, comp., Their Last Full Measure: Texas Confederate Casualty Lists, Volume II, 1863 (Arlington, Texas: G.T.T. Publishing, 1997). Stewart Sifakis, Compendium of the Confederate Armies. Texas (New York: Facts on File, 1995). Laura Simmons, "Waul's Legion From Texas to Mississippi," Texana, VII (Spring 1969). Brett J. Derbes

The following, adapted from the Chicago Manual of Style, 15th edition, is the preferred citation for this article.

Brett J. Derbes, "BOLLING, EUGENE S.," Handbook of Texas Online (http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fbobd), accessed May 08, 2012. Published by the Texas State Historical Association.

Sunday, May 12th, 1861

To day the steamer Alamo, Capt. McKee came up and was detained here some time on account of the rail road hands failing or refusing to open the draw in the bridge. after a couple of hours detention she was enabled to pass through. weather changable in the day and a hard storm & rain throughout the night.