Winnie Davis Camp No. 108 UCV Records from Membership Register   E. S. Durigend Ent Conf Serv 22 April 1861, Pvt Co A, 11th Ga Inf; disch end of War 4 April 1865 at Appomattox Court House Resolution of Respect- Oct. 2, 1916 To Commander and Comrades Camp Willie Davis, No. 108 UCV It was the pleasure of the writer of these resolutions to have been intimately acquainted with Comrade E. S. Durigend for a long number [of] years but our association with him was not [such that] led us to be come familiar with his career as a Confederate soldier. He was a member of the 11th Infantry and surrendered at Appomattox,Va. And he discharged his duties faithfully as a loyal Confederate Soldier.  His family and boyhood friends lived east of the Miss. river and we [know?] not how many of them are now living.  He was a long while a citizen of Ellis County and was faithful to his duties as a citizen of said county.  He had the interest of his country at heart.  H was a great fraternalist and spent the closing years of his life working for the [illegible] and the relief of human distress.  His last days were spent [in] I. O. O. F. Home in Corsicana, Texas, where he .was tenderly looked after and cared for by this order which he had loved and served so long.  He was laid away at Shiloh, near Ovilla in Ellis County, as he requested, and  [at] his request was buried in a new uniform of Conf. Gray.  He had listened to the last bugle call here, and we hope and believe that he heard its welcome call in the happy country, where he now rests in a happy home beyond the silver stars. Submitted by C. R. Gibson for your Committee. [Note:  Durigend was not a resident of Ellis County until after 1880, per census]   Copyright © 2002-2016, Ellis County TXGenWeb. All Rights Reserved. This page was last modified: Thursday, 01-Jul-2021 13:18:46 MDT