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Date Posted: 09/19/04 9:37:48pm
Author: Doug Cooper
Subject: Re: 15th Texas dead buried in McGavock
In reply to: Silas 's message, "Re: 15th Texas dead buried in McGavock" on 09/19/04 10:55:20am

Silas - info is out of the CSR's and is in the new book by Lundberg, The Finishing Stroke, Texans in the 1864 Tennessee Campaign. The entire brigade roster and casualty lists are in the back. Most of the dead and missing/ presumed killed are "grave unknown" but there are the three in McGavock as listed. It appears the CSR's were the starting point to do some digging into more info, checking graves, etc.

The number of killed in the 6th is at least 10 - in addition to the 3 you site Miller, Taylor (Adolphus) and Wilson (although it is JW not TK Wilson) there are another 7 known dead,

Co C Crozier, W.A. grave unknown
Co D Mahaivier, A. grave unknown
Co E Thompson, E. sec 5, grave 63 McGavock
Wakefield, J.J. sec 5, grave 64 McGavock
Co G Morris, S. W. died in the home of Mrs S.F. Glass
Co H Kulenthall, E.C.T sec 1, grave 4 McGavock
Muckey, B. sec 1, grave 6 McGavock

The 6th had at least 20 men captured and the 15th had at least 14 men captured in addition to the dead and wounded.

Our company had 29 men total - of those 6 were killed, 3 wounded and 5 captured, or 48% casualties. A tough day.

Unless you had this book and access to the notes of the author, you would not have known.

Doug

>Where did you get the below information, Cooper? I
>took the three names and compared them to the list.
>Two of the three appear:
>
>>Co A, Pvt William D Stevens sec 2 grave 16
>
>STEVENS, W. B. TX A 18 2 16
>
>>Co G Sgt Francis M Smith sec 6 grave 85
>
>Not listed.
>
>>Co H Pvt Thomas Napier sec 21 grave 90 (Arkansas
>>section)
>
>NAPIER, THOS. L. ARK H 15
>NAPPER, THOS. L. ARK H 15 21 90
>
>>The Franklin killed in our company D-E-K (6) are all
>>listed as grave unknown.
>
>How do you know or believe that to be the case?
>
>Here is a list of all the 6'ers in the cemetery. As
>you seem to possess a full copy of the roster for the
>15th, are any of these actually in the 15th?
>
>MILLER, J. W. TX E 6 1 14
>TAYLOR, ADOLPH TX A 5 1 13
>TAYLOR, ADOLPHUS* TX A 6
>WILSON, T. K. TX H 6 6 88
>
>I thought there were more when I first went through
>it. There are, however, many 7's, 10's and 24'ths on
>the list. Franklin was a bad day for Texas, but at
>least these poor guys have marked graves. It would
>have been very hard on the families not to know the
>final resting place of their loved ones.
>
>Silas

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