In September 1861, Capt. Alexander Earp of Harrison County was given a company of Texas State Troops in the Brigade District that included Cherokee, Harrison, Smith, Rusk, Upshur, Van Vandt, and areas such as Camp County which became counties after the war. In October 1861, the Texas State Troops were disbanded and the recruits of the district were reassembled at Camp Tally near Coffeeville Texas, and were placed in Col. M.F. Locke's 10th Texas Dismounted Cavalry Regiment, C.S.A. After four months of training at Camp Tally, the regiment was moved to Clarksville, Texas then took up the line of march to Little Rock.

My g.g.g.grandfather Samuel Wyatt (ca.1808-1867)owned a tannery and harness shop just north of Pittsburg Texas, which was then in Upshur County. My g.g. grandfather Elijah D. Wyatt (1820-1862) joined Capt. Earp's company of the T.S.T. in 1861 but was too old to enlist in the 10th Texas Cavalry after the T.S.T. were disbanded. Elijah became a civilian sutler and provided harness and leather goods to the recruits of the 10th Texas Cavalry and moved with the regiment to Little Rock in anticipation of the regiment getting suitable cavalry mounts. Elijah got sick in the measles epidemic during the march and died in the spring of 1862. He was buried by his negroes at a Confederate encampment near Little Rock. He is likely buried in an unknown grave in the Confederate Cemetery at old Camp Nelson, east of Cabot, Arkansas. The graves at old Camp Nelson were given wooden markers which deteriorated in a few years.

My g.grandmother Parmelia (Wyatt) Gilmer had a cousin named Pamelia Wyatt who married Cul Earp of the Earp family of Earpville, Texas, which later became the city of Longview. No relation the gunfighter Wyatt Earp that I am aware of.

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