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Subject: Re: [17TH-TX-CAVALRY] More Information on 17th
Date: Sat, 06 Feb 2010 14:44:02 -0600
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Thanks so much for offering to do this. I appreciate it very much and
will look forward to hearing from you again.

Dolores Kinsey

Quoting Charles Temple <>:

>
> Hi:
> Your ancestor shows up on the muster roll of Co. A of the 17th as
> "James H.
> Halton". Misspelled names were common on these rolls.
> I'll check the Confederate service records this weekend and let you know
> what I find.
> By the way, please take what Toby Turner posts with a grain of
> salt. He has
> some good info and suggestions about research, but then spreads absolutely
> incorrect material, such as the story that half the deaths in the 17th at
> Camp Douglas were by execution.
> That simply never happened.
> Best wishes.
> Charles Temple
> -----Original Message-----
> >From:
> >Sent: Feb 5, 2010 8:04 PM
> >To:
> >Subject: Re: [17TH-TX-CAVALRY] More Information on 17th
> >
> >My g-grandfather survived imprisonment--at least I think he was
> >captured with his unit. Since many prisoners died of simple disease as
> >measles, i've often thought that maybe he survived because he was
> >older than some and had small children when he enlisted, and had
> >probably been exposed to the diseases that some died of.
> >
> >Dolores Kinsey
> >
> >Quoting Toby Turner :
> >
> >> According to the Smith County Chronicles, Zachariah H. Crow was not
> >> on the 1870 census and it isn't known if he survived the war nor
> >> does he show up on any Union prisoner lists.
> >>
> >> I forgot to mention "The Confederate Letters of Bryan Marsh,"
> >> Chronicles of Smith County, Texas, Vol XIV, no. 2 (Winter 1975)
> >> which ran on pages 9-39 and 43-55. He also served in Company C and
> >> was elected captain at Little Rock.
> >>
> >> Of the 313 men captured at the fall of Arkansas Post, 111 died.
> >> One-half of those who died were shut or hung as hostages. Company C
> >> had 14 men die and 5 men were left at Camp Douglas because they were
> >> too ill to travel.
> >> Toby
> >>
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