Danny Knight:
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It is worth reiterating the following two headers from two consecutive pages of my book. ..Ken Martin and I addressed this concept a couple of years ago.
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McKittrick’s Denton Rangers, Denton County
May 1861
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Muster roll of McKittrick’s Company of Mounted Rangers organized in the county of Denton on the 23th day of May to be mustered into the Service of the State of Texas or the “Confederate States of America” under the name of the “Denton Rangers.” The Company consisting of 83 men Rank and file is well mounted and ready for Service at a day’s warning and this Service are tendered to the convention of the State of Texas or the “Confederate States of America.” Capt McKittrick, Denton, May 23, 1861.
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Welch’s Company I, First Choctaw-Chickasaw Mounted Regiment, Denton County
Fort Arbuckle, I.T.; Jun 1861
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The 1st Company ‘I’ of the First Choctaw and Chickasaw Mounted Rifles enrolled June 2, 1861 at Fort Arbuckle, Chickasaw Nation, I.T. (now Garvin County OK) for 12 months, then was mustered July 26, 1861 near Scullyville, Choctaw Nation (now LeFlore County OK). At the end of their 12-month enlistment this company became Company ‘E’ in DeMorse’s 29th Texas Cavalry. Many of Captain Otis G. Welch’s recruits for this first Company ‘I’ of the First Choctaw-Chickasaw Mounterd Regiment of the Confederate States of America were residents of the Denton County area, especially Captain Felix McKittrick’s militias on the facing page.
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Patti, prochette@Juno.com
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