Bryan Howerton

Granted, "Camp Wrightman" was mistranscribed and should have been "Camp Weightman" ... thank you for the correction -- Weightman is mentioned 30 times in this 16-page record. ..However, this Camp Weightman was definitely located in Washington County, Arkansas.

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Quoting Major Whitfield:

"NOTE: At the time of the muster as shown on this roll, this company was on a scout — men absent from camp over 30 days. “Eight days” without forage, for [torn page] four days without provisions for the men — were compelled to live on horse meat — d__ [torn page]. Now stationed at Camp Weightman, Washington County, Arkansas.

J.W. Whitfield, Major"

Whitfield is referencing the muster on:

December 31, 1861
Camp Deen,Cherokee Nation, I.T.

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