With the way the war was going, the news from Houston on Apr. 6, 1865 was enough to make a grown man cry. Another wellknown name had been added to the Confederate casualty list, but this time the fatal bullet had not been fired by a Yankee.
The victim was the last of a prominent line. His father William H. Wharton, a key figure in the independence struggle and Texas’ first minister to the United St…