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You can procure his files under the two units denoted, through the service noted in the Red enclosed box above.

George Martin

Edward Ethel Porter

Residence was not listed;
Enlisted as a Captain (date unknown).

Promotions:
* Lt Col (As of 3rd TN Cavalry)

He also had service in:
Field & Staff TN 3rd Cavalry
"C" Co. MS 2nd Part Rangers Cavalry

Sources used by Historical Data Systems, Inc.:

- Index to Compiled Confederate Military Service Records
- Field Officers, Regiments & Battalions of CS Army
- Supplement to the Official Records of the Union & Confederate Armies

Officers of Company C 2nd Mississippi Infantry

Edward E. Porter, Capt., to Lt.Col., Third Tennessee Cavalry
George R. Merritt, 2nd Lt.; Capt., Company F, Third Tennessee
Cavalry
James C. Harrell, 2nd Lt.
Robert H. Morgan, 2nd Lt., deserted November 24, 1861;
dropped February 1, 1862
E. Baxter Shelton, 2nd Lt.; to 1st Lt., Company F, Third Ten-
nessee Cavalry
Prisoner of War records show that this company was paroled
as Captain George R. Merritt's Company F, Third ([Nathan Bed-
ford] Forrest's old) Regiment, Tennessee Cavalry.

The only record found in the records of the 3rd Tennessee Cavalry is a parole certificate he signed as Ed E. Porter, Lt. Col. Forrest's Old Regt. Cav at Gainsville, Alabama May 11, 1865

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