George Washington Higgins Wright, 2d Co A, Cherokee Regt, applied for an Oklahoma CSA Pension — denied due to no discharge papers. His brothers John E. Wright, Wm. T. Wright, and Thomas J. Wright were probably also in Watie’s Cherokee Regt.
George Washington Bourland (1846-1885), Cpl, Regt. 2, Co. H, son of Nancy Hood (d-1853) and John McElroy Bourland (c1804-1852) who left 10 minor children under the guardianship John Simpson Chisum (1824-1884) of Lamar and Denton Co TX and adopted by his uncle "Col. James Bourland." This G.W. Bourland was found with Thos J. Wright in the 1880 Hunt Co TX cen. T.J. m-Laura Josephine Bourland, cousin to G.W. Bourland. G.W. Bourland named his son George Wright Bourland (b-1885).
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