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From: Will Smith <>
Subject: [TXBELL] Colonel (?) C. C. Minnis....
Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2002 01:23:44 -0800


I have been forwarded data stating that Annie E. Minnis, widow of "Colonel" Clinton C. Minnis of Bell County, Texas, was Anne E. Moore, daughter of Lovick Moore, and that she married L. B. Little November 19, 1866 in Galveston, Texas. He died and in 1883, she married "Colonel" Clinton C. Minnis. Her father, Anne said, fought with Sam Houston for Texas Independence and was a friend of Houston's until the latter died in 1863.
Clinton Minnis may never have been a Confederate "Colonel" at all. Records indicate that Clinton Minnis enlisted as a Private in 1861 in Norfolk Virginia in the 6th Virginia Infantry, and in 1863 was in the hospital at Staunton, VA for dysentary, and is also listed as having deserted. Then we find a Clinton Minnis, exact same age as our man in Bell County, who enlisted January 27, 1864 in the UNION Army in Brooklyn, New York...
He is probably the same Clinton Minnis in Georgia 1870 (I do not yet know the county), and then is in Bell County, Texas by 1880 when he was listed as widowed and working as a Saloon Keeper in Benton. He was living at a hotel there.
In 1891, he attended the Confederate reunion at Temple, Texas claiming to have served in the 43rd Virginia Cavalry Battalion, which would have been commanded by General John Singleton Mosby (Mosby's Partisan Rangers) - otherwise known to the Yanks as "Mosby's Raiders".

Either he joined Mosby's men after 1863 and was promoted to Colonel (no record of this has been found), or his daddy conveniently named him "Clinton"....and he told some BIG whoppers to everyone there in Bell County!

Curioser and Curioser....This man is starting to be a colorful fellow...LOL!!!

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Thanks,
Will
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