Anthony Martin Branch

Anthony Martin Branch was a Texas politician who served in the Confederate States Congress during the American [Civil War].

Biography

Branch was born in Buckingham County, Virginia. He graduated from Hampden–Sydney College in 1842, and moved to Huntsville, Texas in 1847. He married Amanda Smith in 1849.
He was a member of the Texas [House of Representatives] in 1859 and the Texas Senate in 1861.
During much of the Civil War, Branch served in the Confederate States Army as a captain in Company A, the 21st Texas Cavalry. He later represented Texas in the Second Confederate Congress in 1864 and 1865 until the end of the war.
Anthony Martin Branch died in Huntsville on October 3, 1867.