Jerry Coffee,

Please help me find the first name of Captain Murphy of Hawpe's 31st Texas Cavalry cited in the following "Flatt, Horace P." entry of my bibliography, page B-8/ B-10.

J.H. Burgett had enrolled in the Brush Battalion after deserting Company “I” of the 31st Regiment Texas [Hawpe’s] Cavalry (Dismounted) for January and February 1864 indicated that Burgett was a “2nd Sergeant enlisted on 9 August 1862 at Fort Washita [Indian Territory] by J.W. Marshall for a period of 3 years or during the war. He was last paid by Capt. Murphy on June 30, 1863 and “absent without leave since 4 December 1863.” From “John Hoskins Burgett (1836-1872) of Montague County, Texas.” sent by Milbrey Otto Burgett of Fort Lauderdale, FL.

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