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Date Posted: 09/23/04 7:59:37am
Author: Silas
Subject: 10 March 62
In reply to: Doug Cooper 's message, "15th TX Company County desigs" on 09/22/04 10:24:40pm

>The 15th Texas Cavalry was organized in Dallas on 10
>Mar 1862, was reorganized on 20 Mar 1862....

Coop, the tenth of March is a strange coincidence. Our company of the 34th Miss which we portrayed at Lookout Mountain was also formed on 10 March 62. The reason I remember the date is that is my birthday, 10 March 62. I was born one hundred years to the day that each of these two units we're portraying in Tennessee was formed.

That's weird.

I have some ties to Texas, in particular, Royse City and Beaumont. Two, GG grandfathers founded those two cities. Burgess Royse, my solitary Confederate ancestor, was a founder of the city several years after the war. I've got a rubbing from his headstone. The city webpage for Royse City has a picture of Burgess Royse and a small story about him. It's the only picture I've ever seen of him. Beaumont was a prewar city which started as a trading outpost by a Tackitt. I've seen a copy of a tax receipt from the war showing that my GG Grandfather Tackitt gave ten percent of his crops to the Confederate government for some particular season.

There are many Royses and Tackitts (Tacketts, too) born or buried in Texas. I'm not a Texan, but Texas is in me.

Silas Tackitt

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