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Re: Who are Bruce Turner and Archie Centre?

I suspect Archie Centre may be Andrew Senter of the 51st Virginia Infantry.

Andrew Senter enlisted on 6/28/1861 at Fox Creek, VA as a Private in Company I, 51st Virginia Infantry, detailed as a Teamster September 20, 1861, died October 15, 1861, place not stated. (Compiled Service Records)

The 51st Virginia Infantry Regiment was organized at Wytheville, Virginia in August of 1861. It was composed of eleven companies from southwestern Virginia. The men of the 51st were from Wythe, Grayson, Wise, Patrick, Nelson, Bland, Tazewell, Amherst, and Floyd Counties. The vast majority of these men were farmers.
(http://51stvirginiainfantry.tripod.com/)

51st Infantry Regiment was formed in August, 1861, with eleven companies. Company L was later assigned to the 23rd Battalion. Its members were recruited in the counties of Wythe, Nelson, Bland, Floyd, and Grayson. During the war it started in General Floyd's and G.C. Wharton's Brigade. The 51st served in the Army of the Kanawha, moved to Tennessee, and after fighting at Fort Donelson marched to Nashville with 274 men. (NPS Soldiers and Sailors System)

Army of the Kanawha embraced troops in Western (now West) Virginia in the area around Lewisburg.
http://www.csawardept.com/history/armies/index.html

Lewsisburg is 25 miles West of Covington on I-64

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