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Re: CSA units in the Red River Campaign

Afer looking at my list of regiments, I noticed another error. Col.George H. Sweet was not in command of the 21st Texas Cavalry. He was commander of the 15th Texas Cavalry and that regiment that was captured at Arkansas Post. Col.Sweet later became commandant of the Camp Ford prison of war camp. The 21st Texas Cavalry indicated on the list was under the command of Col. George W. Carter and was in Parson's Brigade.

Brooks W. Lee, frontier scout, member of the historic Lee family of Virginia and a pioneer native of Brown County, was in the 15th Texas Cavalry until 1862 when he was furloughed. He returned to Brown County to become a recruiting officer. Camp Collier of the Confederate Frontier Regiment was located on Brooks W. Lee's farm and cattle range in southwest Brown County. In December 1864, Brooks W. Lee was called upon to act as a scout to lead Capt. Henry S. Fossett's company of the Confederate
Frontier Regiment from Camp Colorado to Dove Creek, 25 miles west of present day San Angelo. There the Confederate company was combined with two hundred men of Maj.George B. Erath's regiment of Texas State Troops from Brown, Comanche, Erath and Coryell Counties and were in the ill-fated battle of Dove Creek on the Tankersley Ranch. The battle occurred on January 8, 1865 with 1,500 Kickapoo Indians armed with Springfield rifled muskets that were supplied by the Federal army while they were still on their reservation in Kansas. This was the last Indian battle with the Confederate army.

Capt. N.M. Gillentine, commander of a militia company was mortally wounded at the battle of Dove Creek. Fifteen state troops and Confederate soldiers were also killed in the battle. They were buried with full military honors somewhere along the Concho River between San Angelo and Rich Coffey's Flat Top Ranch located at the confluence of the Concho and Colorado Rivers. Some of the mortally wounded survived long enough to be buried at the Camp Colorado Cemetery in northern Coleman County.

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