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From: Dave Clark <>
Subject: Re: [KYJP] Forrest's Kentucky Brigade
Date: Sun, 04 May 2003 07:37:28 -0700
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Mr. Miller: I live in California so cannot attend the meeting you
announced.

But, perhaps you could look for my ancestor Dr. Andrew J. Watson, MD,
among the lists or records of your new organization. Twice, I've sent
off to the National Archives, and the only return has been a record
about a much-younger man with the same name who was born and enlisted in
the 15th Consol. Cavalry in Lauderdale County, TN.

Doc Watson is shown in several census records as a medical doctor, so he
might have served as a surgeon for the Confederacy.

Doc Watson married my grandmother Josephine Milliken in 1861 in
McCracken County, KY, just north of Mayfield, and I am confident he was
a Confederate supporter because he named his eldest son, Stonewall
Jackson Watson. My grandmother, Nannie Clara Watson was born in 1862 in
Paducah, KY.

Good luck, and thanks for your help.

Dave Clark

Gregory Miller wrote:
> I don't know how it happened and I checked the message I sent but in the returned message that was previously posted the name Forrest was split by an exclamation mark at one point. I will post the main message again.
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> Direct and collateral descendants of Confederate soldiers who served in Third Kentucky Infantry, Seventh Kentucky Infantry, Eighth Kentucky Infantry, Twelfth Kentucky Cavalry, Col. James K. Huey's Kentucky Cavalry Battalion (also known as the Thirteenth Kentucky Cavalry but not to be confused with Col. Benjamin F. Caudill's Thirteenth Kentucky Cavalry from East Kentucky), Col. Henry Clay King's First Kentucky Cavalry Battalion (also known as the First Confederate Cavalry), and Cobb's Battery Kentucky Artillery, that during the last year of the War Between the States were known as Forrest's Kentucky Brigade are invited to the first organizational meeting at the public library at Mayfield, Kentucky, on Tuesday, May 27, 2003 at 7 P.M. in the library meeting room, for the proposed Forrest's Kentucky Brigade Kinfolk Association. The mission of the organization will be to educate the public on the History of all the Confederate military units that were part of Forrest's Kentucky
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> rigade by gathering, preserving, and publishing all military records, photographs, manuscripts, etc., relating to these men, and also, to gather, preserve, and publish the records of all Confederate veterans' organizations that were composed primarily of soldiers that served in Forrest's Kentucky Brigade. The organization will also be open to Associate membership of anyone not having an ancestor in any of these units but are interested in preserving the true history of these men.
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