Yes, last survivor of the CSA Air Corps - and a reconnaissance balloon aeronaut - is buried in Oakwood Cemetery, Corsicana, Texas.
Brevet Lt. Airman A. E. Morse, 1843-1914, from a 300-500 ft. tethered balloon Morse observed 1862 Yankee activity outside Richmond and also in the 1863 defense of Charleston.
Relayed messages went to his superiors for critical defensive measures and artillery adjustments.
Twenty-nine year old Morse, married with family, came to Texas in 1872 and became a Navarro County sharecropper.
For brave, gallant and hornorable service, for character and reliability, perhaps the 1910 approval of a $6 monthly Texas Confederate Pension gave Adolphus E. Morse four more years of Southern gratitude...and a few small comforts of life... like an occasional slab, or twists', of his favorite-flavored chewin' tabaccy.
Lettering on his gravestone is now almost gone.
Brevet Lt. Airman A. E. Morse, 1843-1914, from a 300-500 ft. tethered balloon Morse observed 1862 Yankee activity outside Richmond and also in the 1863 defense of Charleston.
Relayed messages went to his superiors for critical defensive measures and artillery adjustments.
Twenty-nine year old Morse, married with family, came to Texas in 1872 and became a Navarro County sharecropper.
For brave, gallant and hornorable service, for character and reliability, perhaps the 1910 approval of a $6 monthly Texas Confederate Pension gave Adolphus E. Morse four more years of Southern gratitude...and a few small comforts of life... like an occasional slab, or twists', of his favorite-flavored chewin' tabaccy.
Lettering on his gravestone is now almost gone.