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From: "Dorothy Newberry" <>
Subject: Re: [11TH-TEXAS-BATTALION] Another Spaight's Man in Uniform
Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2009 22:12:33 -0600
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Where was Ft. Green? How do you access these service records for folks? Am
hoping you will share

some of your search secrets.

Regards,
Dorothy Newberry
----- Original Message -----
From: "John P Pate" <>
To: <>
Sent: Monday, January 05, 2009 8:13 PM
Subject: Re: [11TH-TEXAS-BATTALION] Another Spaight's Man in Uniform


>I just looked at his service records - it shows that he was trained as a
> musician at Camp Green at the same time as James Dallas Collier who is
> holding a flute in the picture. Might be a good bet your James played the
> flute.
>
> There is also a rather lengthy and very hard to read copy of his court
> martial in the records. As far as I can tell it was for sleeping on duty.
> There is also a hard to read card that I think says he was sent out to
> hunt
> prisoners. I am having a hard time reading bad handwriting tonight.
>
> I will try to upload all the cards on a webpage tonight in the hopes that
> you or someone else on the list can transcribe them. Court martial
> records
> can be a goldmine of information, especially if they defend themselves.
>
> John
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From:
> [mailto:] On Behalf Of Dorothy
> Newberry
> Sent: Monday, January 05, 2009 4:04 PM
> To:
> Subject: Re: [11TH-TEXAS-BATTALION] Another Spaight's Man in Uniform
>
> Am scanning a photo of my g grandfather's gravestone in Mason County TX,
> Mason TX., Crosby Cemetery.
>
> Id you notce, his gravestone states that he was a musician (is that what
> Mus. means?) Do you know how to find
>
> out which instrument he played?
>
> Regards,
> Dorothy Newberry
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "John P Pate" <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 2008 12:12 PM
> Subject: Re: [11TH-TEXAS-BATTALION] Another Spaight's Man in Uniform
>
>
>> Do you by any chance have any pictures - especially interested in
>> cemetery
>> photos?
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From:
>> [mailto:] On Behalf Of Dorothy
>> Newberry
>> Sent: Saturday, December 27, 2008 4:18 PM
>> To:
>> Subject: Re: [11TH-TEXAS-BATTALION] Another Spaight's Man in Uniform
>>
>> John Pate,
>>
>> I wrote a few days ago about my g grandfather, James E. Ferguson. He
>> enlisted in company C., later Company A, Speights Battelion Gibbs Texas
>> Infantry. He supposedly was a musician in that unit although I have no
>> proof
>>
>> of that. James E. was born April 26, 1842 in Sabine County, TX. and died
>> June 9, 1904 in Mason County, TX. He is buried in Mason County TX in the
>> Crosby Cemetery.
>>
>> If you could add him to your info, I would appreciate it.
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "John P Pate" <>
>> To: <>
>> Sent: Friday, December 19, 2008 10:27 PM
>> Subject: [11TH-TEXAS-BATTALION] Another Spaight's Man in Uniform
>>
>>
>>> http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr
>>>
>>
> <http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Collier&GSfn=James+&G
>>> Smn=Dallas&GSbyrel=in&GSdyrel=in&GSob=n&GRid=6799964>
>>>
>>
> &GSln=Collier&GSfn=James+&GSmn=Dallas&GSbyrel=in&GSdyrel=in&GSob=n&GRid=6799
>>> 964
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> This site on find a grave has a picture of James Dallas Collier in
>>> Uniform.
>>> He was a musician and the picture is supposed to show him with a fife in
>>> hand.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Does anyone have the ability to blow the picture up without distortion?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> http://www.spaightsbattalion.org/Collier_J_D.htm
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> John
>>>
>>>
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