The 1861 Petition in Marshall Texas titled: "Old Harrison Responds To The Call"...."We are ready to go but we need horses and money." A Harrison County bond election was issued by 14 prominent citizens in Marshall, Harrison County Texas, two of which were Gilchrist McKay and Walter Payne Lane.

The NPSSSS does not list William A. Seaton in any Texas Confederate Army unit. However, William A. Seaton may have enlisted in Gilchrist McKay's Company, "Walter P. Lane's" 1st Texas Cavalry Regiment, Texas State Troops. The Lane's 1st Texas Cavalry, T.S.T. was musterd at Marshall, Harrison County Texas. That unit was one of the first units raised at the beginning of the war after a bond election was held to raise money for horses, guns and ammunition. The 1st Texas Cavalry was only named in honor of Walter P. Lane. W.P. Lane himself enlisted in Col. Robert H. Cumby's 3rd Texas Cavalry Regiment in July 1861, and was made lieutenant colonel. Col. Cumby's 3rd Texas Cavalry was raised with recruits for Marshal, Henderson, Greenville, and Dallas.

The 3rd Texas Cavalry served in Arkansas and Louisiana. In early 1863, Lt.Col. Lane refused a promotion to colonel and returned to Texas where he raised the 1st Texas Partisan Rangers and served in Indian Territory. In March 1865, Col. Lane was reassigned to Hempstead, Texas where he was promoted to brigadier general and placed in command of a brigade, just before the surrender.

There may be some confusion which regiment William Seaton was in. Either Lanes 1st Texas Cavalry, Harrison County Militia (Texas State Troops) or Lane's 1st Texas Partisan Rangers, C.S.A. If he was in the T.S.T., I dont know where that record of his enlisment could be found.

Many veterans falsified their Confederate army enlistment in order to get a Confederate state pension. My great grandfather William E. Gilmer's widow submitted an affidavit signed by friends and relatives stating he was in the 14th Brigade, Texas Militia(T.S.T.) in order for his widow to get his pension. However, he was actually in the 14th Georgia Infantry and settled in Lampasas County Texas in 1873. Due to confusion about qualifiying for pensions after the war, many Confederate widows were afraid they would not get a state Confederate veterans pension if their veteran was in the Confederate army in another state which was not the case. The Union Civil War veterans received a pension from the federal government no matter where they lived.