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Evelyn --

How do you connect McDonald's command with Coosa County? Only four or five men named McDonald from Coosa County who could have been in CSA service, and none of them were officers.

The only Alabama officers named McDonald who led cavalry commands are Capt. John R. McDonald, Co. E, 11th Alabama Cavalry of Limestone County AL, and Capt. Thomas J. McDonald, Co. "G", 9th Alabama Cavalry, from NE Alabama (probably Cherokee County).

You may be thinking about Major Charles McDonald's Battalion of Tennessee Cavalry. He served as a Captain in Forrest's original command composed of of Alabama, Tennessee, Kentucky and Texas companies.

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