David A. Allen, age 31, enlisted as a Private in Captain D. C.Giddings' Company 1st Regiment Carter's Brigade Mounted Volunteers,** March 20, 1862 at Brenham, **This company subsequently became Company F, 21st Texas Cavalry, detailed to the Commissary Department in 1863, paroled July 14,1865

**This company subsequently became Company F, 21st Regiment Texas Cavalry, First Lancers, Carter's Brigade

You may procure his records through the service noted in the Red enclosed box above. Contained therein is a Descriptive list which records his vital statistics