Moore family

Born in Leon County, Florida, William Ebenezer Moore (1836-1916), the son of John and Penelope Johnson Moore, moved to Shreveport, Louisiana. He joined the “Shreveport Greys”, a Company in the Confederate 1st Louisiana Regiment in 1861. He became colonel of the regiment shortly before it was disbanded due to heavy casualties at the Battle of Antietam in 1862. Moore was reassigned to the rank of quartermaster in Mt. Pleasant, Texas where he served for the remainder of the war. In 1865, Moore married Sarah Elizabeth “Lizzie” Neal and had a daughter, Percy Moore. In 1874, he served as a Democratic State Senator during the Fourteenth Legislature.

From the guide to the William E. Moore Papers ., 1807, 1841, 1860-1875, 1935-1944, (Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin)