Forrest Forrest tidbit

[Borderruffian]

Yes, die hards like the relative from Mississippi who walked home to Carthage, recuperated, picked up my GGgrandfather's daughter, the last mule and wagon on the place, and was GTT....Gone to Texas. (They returned later on and lived the rest of their lives in Leake Co.) Wonder if he was thinking he might be arrested and planned to zip over to Mexico?

Well probably more worried about how he'd be treated by the Radical Republican Thralldom in Missouri they were the devil on former CS soldiers and their families.

 

[UCVRelics]

The Ky thing didn't really mean that much to NBF. If you remember after his dust up with Bragg and he got his own command the 3rd 5th and 7th Ky Inf went with him and those boys walked and kept up with NBF for almost 30 days till they got into north Tenn & Southern Ky and got horses and then became mounted infantry

 

[archieclement]

McNeill though Virginian by birth started the war as an officer in the MSG he and his son went east after Lexington I believe. So though Missouri had no mustered units in the ANV they were represented albeit in a small way by McNeill.

There was a company of Cavalry in the ANV commanded by Capt Charles Woodson that was made up of exchanged Missourians that had arrived in Richmond. Co A 1st MO Cav

At the battle of New Market they fought with such valor as dismounted Cav that they sustained the heaviest causalities of any Confederate unit on the field, according one source, another says one of the heaviest casualties of any CSA unit and that it isn't clear between more then one unit....

 

[diane]

The Ky thing didn't really mean that much to NBF. If you remember after his dust up with Bragg and he got his own command the 3rd 5th and 7th Ky Inf went with him and those boys walked and kept up with NBF for almost 30 days till they got into north Tenn & Southern Ky and got horses and then became mounted infantry

Oh, he had no problem with Kentuckians - it was their wishy-washy government. My ancestors were horse breeders near Louisville and he recruited a couple of them (and their horses) at Brandenburg.

 

[AUG]

There was a company of Cavalry in the ANV commanded by Capt Charles Woodson that was made up of exchanged Missourians that had arrived in Richmond. Co A 1st MO Cav

At the battle of New Market they fought with such valor as dismounted Cav that they sustained the heaviest causalities of any Confederate unit on the field, according one source, another says one of the heaviest casualties of any CSA unit and that it isn't clear between more then one unit....

Have heard of Woodson's company, but would they be considered part of the ANV? They did serve with detachments from the army in the Valley. There's a good article on him here: http://newmarketbattle.blogspot.com/2012/04/capt-charles-h-woodson.html

As for Kentucky, there was one company of Kentuckians that served in the ANV as Company H of the 3rd Arkansas Infantry. It was known as the "Orphan Company" or the "Blackburn Guards".

 

[archieclement]

There was a company of Cavalry in the ANV commanded by Capt Charles Woodson that was made up of exchanged Missourians that had arrived in Richmond

Well considering It was raised at Camp Lee part of the ANV, before being transferred to the valley, then again served with the ANV at Cold Harbor, and possibly more considering murky record, not sure why it wouldn't be considered as having served as part of the ANV