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From: "Coffee" <>
Subject: [SouthernTrails] Fw: More on Capt.Cunningham
Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2003 11:15:56 -0600

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From: Coffee <>
To: B Moss <>; Mel Goforth <>
Date: Sunday, January 05, 2003 3:13 PM
Subject: More on Capt.Cunningham


>Capt. James Cunningham and the Comanche County militia took command of Camp
>Colorado in what later became Coleman County from Company F, of the U.S.
2nd
>Cavalry just after the start of the Civil War in 1861. The Comanche
County
>militia took command of the garrison without firing a shot. The U.S. Army
>troopers that were garrisoned at Camp Colorado joined the Confederate
>army. Only the commanding officer of Company F of the 2nd U.S. Cavalry at
>the camp remained in the Union Army and was allowed to leave. The U.S. 2nd
>Cavalry was a elite regiment of the Union Army at the start of the Civil
>War. There were several high ranking officers that joined the Confederate
>Army. Among them was Lt. John Bell Hood and Colonel Robert E. Lee.
>Colonel Lee was in command of the 2nd U.S. Cavalry on the Texas Frontier
and
>was stationed at Camp Mason at the start of the Civil War. Lt. Hood was
>also stationed at Camp Mason. Col. Lee went back east and became commander
>of the Confederate Army of Virginia and Lt. Hood resigned the U.S.Army and
>joined the Confederate Army and assumed command of the Texas Division.
>
>Jerry Coffee
>Plano, Texas
>

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