Bruce Allardice
Gayle family
Fri Apr 27 09:31:18 2001


Ted and Jim:

I'm doing research for a book on Confederate army colonels and can verify that Bristor Gayle was not a son of Governor Gayle.
As to which Gayle's application to USMA was rejected, letters of application are on microfilm at the National Archives. From my own experience with such microfilms, and given that a senator was making the application, I'd say that there is a high likelihood such letters are on the relevant microfilm. Each microfilm (which usually covers a few years) is indexed.