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McCord’s Election
Barry’s Election
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The Judges and Clerks of an Election held in Company Texas Frontier Regiment at Red River Station Texas on the 29th day December 1862 do
hereby certify that the candidates received the following votes. .....The other four men in this election were from Nacogoches, Mason, Bosque, and Rusk counties. The clerks were from Brazos and Travis counties.
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Colonel.......J.E. McCord ....52 votes
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Lt. Colonel...J.E. Ranck.......0 votes
..............J.B. Barry.......53 votes
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Major.........W.J. Alexander...13 votes
..............H.T. Davis.......0 votes
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Judges: .........Allen Brunson
.................Sanford Berry
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Clerks:...........D.L. Emmett
..................J.D. George
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Presiding Officer:......J.S. Martin
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Attachment Number 2. ..Henry T. Davis info found on the Internet.
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Evergreen Cemetery, Orange, Texas ... one "Henry T. Davis" in CSA listing with no more info
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Recollections of D. P. Hopkins of the Henry T. Davis Ranger Company, from the San Marcos Record, some years after the war. (Part or the Texas Frontier regiment / 1st Texas partisan Rangers)
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Official Record
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Nov. 23, 1863.- Skirmish at Cedar Bayou. ......23-December 2.- Expedition to Rio Grande City. ... REPORTS.*
Numbers 13.- Captain Henry T. Davis, Thirty- third Texas Cavalry, of operations November 2-3.
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Page 445, Chapter XXXVIII. THE RIO GRANDE EXPEDITION, ETC.
...proceeded to the light-house to further observe the movements of the enemy. I discovered
that two more vessels had come in during the night, and had discharged quite a lot of
troops and stores. There were also several small boats running in and out, besides some
few alongside the landing of Brazos, inside; there were also quite a number of tents up,
but, owing to it being very smoky and some small crafts that intercepted the views, I
could not tell the number. During my stay at the Point, four vessels came in from the
direction of Corpus Christi, two transports and two gunboats; I could see no troops on
either of the vessels. There were, in all the troops I saw landed, five regiments, four on
Brazos, which moved in the direction of Boca Chica, and one regiment on Padre Island; there
were also landed on Brazos about 100 head of horses and two pieces of artillery. I saw no
cavalry on parade. A few minutes before I retired, I perceived that they were very busy
landing their launches, evidently intending to landtroops at the Point. When I left, there
were twenty-six vessels inside and outside the bar, including nine gunboats, to say
nothing of quite a number of small vessels. A majority of them vessels. A majority of the
vessels outside, except the gunboats, had troops on them.
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Fearing that cavalry might be landed at Boca Chica to cut us off, and, having a very
limited knowledge of the country surrounding the Point, I left, for Brownsville with my
party; had proceeded about 5 miles when I met an express from Colonel Duff, ordering
me to join the command, then en route for King's ranch, which I did forthwith.
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Very respectfully, your obedient servant,
HENRY T. DAVIS,
Captain Company F, Thirty-third Texas Cavalry.
Lieutenant GEORGE W. CALDWELL,
Adjutant, Thirty-third Texas Cavalry.
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Texas. Office of the Governor. Lubbock letters.Confederate
32. Capt. Henry T. Davis to FRL, July [17, 1862], .....ms, 1 p.
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Henry T. Davis Waco Ranger Museum, TST ... 1862: 1863 Frontier Regt, TST
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from Paddock’s 1906 book, JAMES ALEXANDER CUMMINS feature, 3/4th way down the article.
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One resuming civil pursuits the saddle offered Mr. Cummins the most remunerative and
pleasure occupation and he soon became foreman for John Rhodes and Milt McGee,
cattle drovers form Texas to Kansas City, Missouri. During his two years' service in this
capacity, driving thousand of head of genuine "long-horns," camping on the trail in all
sorts of weather, swimming swollen streams and surmounting other difficulties of his
employers and of his own, he made acquaintances and formed associations which shifted
the course of his life into a channel turbid with riffles and whirlpools and encountering
sandbars and eddies until the climax of a strenuous existence was actually reached.
Having saved some money from his employment with Rhodes and McGee and from a
similar service with John Sponable, of Johnson county, Kansas, he decided to try mining
in the Rockies, and he accordingly went to Idaho and prospected in the Leesburg region
of that territory for several months, in a vain effort to locate a vein of fabulous wealth.
Returning to Texas in 1869 he turned his attention briefly to the farm, but freighting
offered proper financial inducements and a life more to his turn, and he hauled goods
form Jefferson to North Texas points until the railroads reached Denison and Sherman
and cut off much of the business in his line. He put up the first tent on the townsite of
Denison and was for a time a clerk in one of the early stores of the town. Later he became
a traveling salesman for a marble works there and eventually drifted into the patent-right
business. In this later vocation he was associated with HENRY T. DAVIS and
James N. Touchstone, and while he was connected with many other and varied
operations during the interval this claimed his attention in the main till 1897, when he
finally settled down in Bowie and embarked in the less adventurous, less strenuous, more
commonplace and more substantial business of real estate and insurance. In 1903 he
formed a partnership with Charles B. Downs, and the firm of Cummins & Downs is one
of the most substantial and reliable in the city. ......
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I would appreciate any hints. My attachments are much easier to read.
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Please send your E-mail address. Gremlins must have invaded since I've lost a couple of files in the past couple of days.
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Patti, prochette@Juno.com
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