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Lt. Horace Randal
(1833-1864)
my 4th cousin
son of Sarah "Sallie" Kyle & Dr. John Leonard Randal
Lt. Horace Randal
graduation picture from
the U.S.M.A. (West Point)
1854

Appointed Brig. General 08 Apr 1864
died 30 Apr 1864, of wounds received at the Battle of Jenkins' Ferry, Arkansas

Story on Brig. General Horace Randal | Picture of Dr. John Leonard Randal & Sarah Kyle

Horace was one of the first graduates from the West Point Military Academy from Texas. In 1849, Horace and James B. McINTYRE became the first Texas appointees to the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. Due to his deficiency in mathematics and English, he spent five (5) years at the academy and thus was the 2nd Texas graduate from West Point. He graduated 01 Jul 1854, and was brevetted second lieutenant in the Eighth United States Infantry.
Dr. John Leonard RANDAL. father of Horace, served as surgeon during Civil War. He succeeded James Gaines in the called session of the Sixth Congress in 1842, as a representative of the Shelby, Sabine, and Harrison districts in the Senate.

Picture from my Kyle Cousin's Album

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