Just got off the phone with Beauvoir as they said they would call me back. I was confused and it was Jim Walton who had been with the 6th Virginia Cavalry but no confirmation could be found.

Beauvoir said that James A. Thrasher had been with the 8th Alabama Cavalry (Hatch's) They probably got there information from him. There was a J. Thrusher with Company A of the 8th Alabama Cavalry and it is plausible it may have been him. Fold 3 listed him as a resident of Bibb County, Alabama but looking in the census while I did find a James Thrasher in Bibb County with the approximate birth year it looks to me to have been James W. Thrasher a totally different man.

I agree with Rick there are just too many inconsistencies.