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I think I messed up the first message I tried to send. I'm fascinated by this thread. In case it helps anyone, my g.g.g. grandfather was an assisant surgeon, then a surgeon, and lastly Chief Medical Director of General Butler at the James River during the war. I got his military file from the Nat. Archives, and it says he enlisted for 3 years (with 1 horse) in the "Confederate 6 Cav. La." on "Mary 3, 1862" attached to "Capt. W. B. Denson's Caalry Company, Unattached Brigade *." At the bottom of the page it has "* This company subsequentlly bacame Company A, 6th Regimane Louisiana Cavlary. The regiment was first organized in the Trans-Mississippi Department the winter of 1863-64 as Harrison's Battalion, Louisiana Cavalry. It was increased to a regiment by the addition of unattached acompanies and designated the 6th Regiment Louisiana Cavalry."

My ancestor was captured at "Arkansas Post, Ark.," serving as "Asst. Surg. Garland Brigade," on Jan 11, 1863," and transferred to a prisoner of war hospital. He either escaped or was traded during a prisoner exchange, as he was back in his unit and took the "Parole of Honor Oath" at Shreveport on June 15th, 1865, with the rest of General Kirby-Smith's Trans-Mississippi Dept.

His wife's and my relatives had the trading post which became Shreveport, and the plantation across the river which became Bossier City...

Have a great day...

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