Bexar County Sheriff Edward Alexander Stevens died as a result of an infection from his left arm being amputated.  The amputation was a result of an on duty gunfight. While serving as a deputy for Bexar County Sheriff Thomas McCall, Steven's was severely wounded in the left arm during a gunfight near Luling , Texas while pursuing horse thieves. During the gunfight, Gillespie, a well known Horse Thief, was shot to death. 

Edward A. Stevens was a veteran of the U.S.-Mexican War and served in 1855 as a member of a company of Texas Rangers. Stevens was first elected Sheriff of Bexar County and served from August 1, 1864 and served until August 11, 1865 , Stevens was replaced after the end of the Civil War by an appointee (James Fisk) of provisional Gov. H.J. Hamilton. (During Reconstruction, Radical Republicans in Congress pressed for "fairly sweeping disenfranchisement of former Confederates," says the Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, edited by Charles Reagan Wilson and William Ferris. Southerners were asked to sign loyalty oaths to the United States to hold even the most minor local government post. In 1866, Stevens served as City Marshal of San Antonio. He later became a Deputy Sheriff for Bexar County and served in that capacity under Sheriff Thomas McCall.