J.:

Looks like he (or someone with the same name) enlisted, at age 24, as a private into Co. I (Capt. Travis Hill Ashby's Company), 1st (McCulloch's) TX Cavalry (aka 1st Mounted Riflemen), in April 1861, at Gonzales, TX, serving throughout the remainder of that year with this unit.

This unit served out it's time of service and was broken up into mainly two other units, but some of the soldiers went into units beyond these two. Such was the case with Richard G. Gillespie.

A Pvt. Richard G. Gillespie enlisted in 1862 into Co. C (Capt. B.F. Week's Company), Cavalry Battalion, Waul's TX Legion, this Gillespie being 25 years old. He enlisted May 8, 1862, again at Gonzales, TX.

Waul's records indicate he was born in KY, was single when he enlisted, and was a resident of Gonzales, TX.

He was noted as being present, but sick, on a couple of muster rolls from 1862.

However, he died in service, as he appears on two lists of effects (personal belongings) of deceased soldiers turned over to the Quartermaster, CSA. These papers carry the dates "1863" ($76.00) and "1864" ($15.50) and nothing more specific.

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Thanks! -- Jim Huffman, Picayune, MS