Jim Evans,

Jerry Coffee's response, immediately above, is from my vIp270-271. Additionally, I inserted a paragraph questioning Brumley vs Brawner.

D.S. Howell recounted this Sep 3, 1864 event in 1923 that was later published in “Along the Texas Frontier During the Civil War,” WEST TEXAS HIST. ASSN. YEARBOOK, v13pp82-94 (Oct. 1937). Howell was a private in Captain James S. Moore’s Company “H,” Bourland’s Regiment. Howell may have had been confused about “Brumley” fifty-nine years after the Sep 3, 1864 event, and possibly meant “E. Brawner.”

THE BOURLAND PAPERS contains five contemporaneous sworn statements from eyewitnesses to the Sep 3, 1864 Jack County events plus the filing documents to the Court Clerk of Jack County on Sep 26, 1864 and to the Court Clerk of Collin County on Oct 8, 1864.

Your David Smart Howell appears on five pages of my 998-page book, BOURLAND IN NORTH TEXAS AND INDIAN TERRITORY DURING THE CIVIL WAR: FORT COBB, FORT ARBUCKLE & THE WICHITA MOUNTAINS that is described on my website, www.bourlandcivilwar.com.

Please send me a personal e-mail because I want to know more about your D.S. Howell, a member of Bourland's Regt.

Patti, prochette@Juno.com