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| Posted: Tue Aug 4th, 2009 02:43 am |
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Doc, I am fascinated. You have a Civil War ancestor named Jacqueline Marshall who was taken prisoner? I see the abbreviation "surg.?" Does that mean she may have been a surgeon? Wow! What a woman--way ahead of her time. That is so cool.
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| Posted: Wed Sep 16th, 2009 09:45 pm |
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This the service of my great grandfathers: Pvt.Joshua David Coffee Fannin Co. Texas June 1861 - June 1863 Brig. Gen. Henry Eustace McCullough, comdg 14th Brigade Orangeville Home Guard Company Fannin - Hunt County, TX Texas State Troops June 1863 - July 1864: Q M Sgt. and Teamster Lt. Col. Peter C. Hardeman, comdg 1st Texas Cavalry Battalion - Arizona Brigade Capt. John Henry Damron's Spy Company (Co.C) C.S.A. Sept. 1863 - May 1864 Detailed on picket duty with 25 men and one officer at Colbert's Ferry on the Red River. After "negotiations" at the ferry, the pickets permitted W.C. Quantrill and 200 of his followers to pass into Indian Territory from Texas. In late February, 1864, Capt. Damron's Spy Company, not including my great grandfather and the 25 pickets at Colbert's Ferry, buried 47 Confederate dead after the battle of Middle Boggy, I.T. Feb. 1864, met with W.C. Quantrill's and their camp on Rocky Creek I.T. Quantrill returned to Missouri. Some of Quantrill's men joined Capt. Damron's company and fought at Massard's Prairie, Ark. March, 1864, Capt. Damron's Spy Company rendezvous with Col. R.M. Gano's Texas Cavalry Brigade at Doaksville, I.T. and proceeded to Washington, Ark. with Gen. Samuel Bell Maxey's Division. Capt. Damron's Spy Co. saw action at Camden Ark., Poison Springs, Ark., Massard's Prairie, Ark. and 2nd Battle of Cabin Creek, I.T. In May 1864, my great grandfather and 15 pickets who remained at Colbert's Ferry returned to Fannin Co., less ten desertions. One deserter was caught and hanged by some of William "Bloody Bill" Anderson's men who were still in Texas hunting deserters, Union sympathizers for bounty and committing crimes upon the civilian population . In May 1865, the remains of Bloody Bill Anderson's irregulars dispersed into Texas. May 1864 - May 1865: Col. James C. Bourland, comdg Texas Frontier Cavalry Regiment Maj. John Roberson Diamond, comdg Brush Battalion Dismounted Reserve for Indian frontier defense. C.S.A. -------------------------------------------------------- Pvt.Peyton Green Whaley Hempstead Co., Arkansas May 1861 - May 1865 Col. James C. Monroe, comdg 1st/6th Arkansas Cavalry Regiment C.S.A. "The Rawhides" Action: Cain Hill, Camden Col. Monroe's regiment joined Brig. Gen.Jo Shelby's Expedition to Mexico. The regiment voted to turn back at the Taos Ferry on the Trinity River, N.E. of Corsicana, Texas. The regiment returned to their homes in Arkansas. Col. Monroe continued to San Luis Potosi Mexico and never returned. Monroe was killed trying to break up a knife fight and is buried somewhere in the Mexican hills. ----------------------------------------------------------- Pvt. William Ellijay Gilmer Jasper Co. Georgia Enlisted at Milledgeville GA Drummer Boy (age of 14) A year later became a rifleman at Mechanicsville, VA (Seven Days Battle). June 1861- March 1865 - Deserted Seige of Petersburg. Col. A.V. Brumby, comdg Col. Robert W. Folsom, comdg 14th Georgia Infantry Regiment Co.G - Jasper County Volunteers C.S.A The 14th Georgia Infantry saw action in every major battle from Manassas to the Seige of Petersburg. Only a handfull of men were at the surrender at Appommatox. ---------------------------------------------------------- 2nd Lt. Andrew Jackson Webb Enlisted: Seiverville, TN July 1862 - July 1865 *Col. W.R. Cook, comdg 2nd Tennessee Cavalry Regiment Co. I Army of Ohio Nov. 1862 - Army of the Cumberland U.S.A. Major battles: Stones River Franklin Chickamauga (lost horse and rifle) Nashville Mustered out at Nashville - May 1865. *Note: Gen. George Thomas relieved in dishonor Col. W.R. Cook for gross neglect of duty and conduct prejudicial to good dicipline. Last edited on Fri Sep 18th, 2009 05:14 pm by Colonel Coffee |
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