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On March 12, 1862, Guess enlisted in Dallas as a private in Capt. William W. Peak's
Company, Hawpe's Regiment Texas Cavalry providing his own horse. This company became Co. A 31st Regiment of the Texas Volunteer Cavalry. On May 14, 1862, he was commissioned a Lt. Col. He was accused by the
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Morganza, Louisiana September 29, 1863 and was imprisoned in New Orleans. In December 1864 he was transferred to Ship Island, Mississippi, a Union prison for Confederate soldiers.
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in about 1822. He arrived in Texas about 1853 to practice law. He married Mary (Molly) Brown Miller, daughter of
William Brown Miller and Minerva Barnes December 4, 1856. The couple had one child, George W. Guess, Jr. who died as an infant. Mary Miller Guess died in 1861.
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George Guess was elected mayor in 1866 after John W. Lane resigned and served until
Benjamin Long was appointed by federal military government. He was a member of the Tannehill Lodge No. 52, A. F. and A. M. and served as Worshipful Master in 1860, 1861, 1862 and 1867.
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Mississippi River near Memphis, Tennessee on July 18, 1868. Guess had traveled to Memphis to bring back the body of his wife's brother-in-law, Frank Roberson, but instead was interred beside him at Elmwood Cemetery.
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