The Forty-Eighters of Possum Creek: A Texas Civil War Story

WILLIAM A. TRENCKMANN, born to German-immigrant parents in 1859, grew up in the farming community of Millheim, Texas. His career included serving as an educator, a newspaper editor, and as a legislator in the Texas House of Representatives. He died in Austin in 1937. JAMES C. KEARNEY, the author of multiple works on German Texas history, is a Fellow of the Texas Institute of Letters among other scholarly awards and accolades. A combat veteran, Kearney earned the Distinguished Flying Cross, Bronze Star, and Air Medal, and Army Commendation Medal (with five oak leaf clusters) for heroism in Vietnam, as well as the Purple Heart. He is a lecturer in the Department of Germanic Studies at University of Texas in Austin.