Thank you, John. There’s definitely some new information here for me. The Reavis Station you mentioned, do you know anything about where it was? I’m not finding anything on google. I’m a little ignorant on some of this, what sources do you use for your research (the muster cards, interrogation report, etc.)? I would like to get more into this.

I’m fairly familiar with Leeper. I haven’t researched him thoroughly but I’ve read a lot of stories and people in the area still talk about him today. I’ve drove by his old house many times.

I’m certain from family history that John Potter and Philip Odell knew eachother. They each had family ties to the Whitecotton family, also of Reynolds County (Smith W. Cotton and Morgan W. Cotton also fought for the confederacy, as did some of the Chitwoods, Smiths, Thompsons, and Murrills who were also part of the kinship). All these families lived on Webb Creek except the Smiths. The original Odell home place is just a couple forks over from Potter Branch. Philip’s nephew Joseph would later preach John Potter’s funeral and write his obituary for the newspaper. Our family is actually still close with the Odells, though most of them live in Carter and Wayne Counties now.

Nick