Earl Pittman,
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You may want to add this data to your "Joel McKee" timeline. From my book:
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McKee’s Militia, Palo Pinto County
Aug 12, 1862
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McKee, Joel..............Captain
Newcomb, Samuel P........1st Lt.
Nance, M. J..............2nd Lt.
Hitson, Wm...............3rd Lt.
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From my Name Index:
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McKEE, Joel, b-1824 IN KY PA; m-1876 to Fanny (? Metcalf), 2 ch; 1880 PPin cen p140; 1900 PPin cen p85 (Capt, Palo Pin Co, TST)
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McKEE, Reuben W., b-1822 NC; m-Rachel A.; 1860 Burnet Co TX cen p175 (Capt, 3d TX Cav Regt, Arizona Brigade, CSA)
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see my "Arizona Brigade" web page:
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http://www.bourlandcivilwar.com/ArizonaBrigade.htm
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Also, you may want to add the following letter found in THE BOURLAND PAPERS from Oliver Loving, Col. James Bourland's cousin, of Pleasant Valley, Palo Pinto County TX. And by the way, I still have not identified the "J.M. Morton" ... would be happy to send a facsimile but the handwriting is legible. ....From my book ...
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Pleasant Valley, Tx.
April 12th, 1862
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Mr. James Bourland
Dear Sir:
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I expected to be at your house myself but oweing [sic] to recent illness and pressing business, it is out of my power to go at this time. And I send J.M. Morton, the bearer of this letter, to attend to my business with yourself and others. I would be glad if you would assist him all you conveniently can. I intend to get up an expedition against the Indians that are depredating on the frontier, and would be pleased to obtain your influence. I am of the opinion that the expedition can be successfully prosecuted and want all the help I can get. Mr. [J.W.] Curtis [of Stephens County, Texas] has returned from Pikes Peak and passed through the Indians as he came down. He [Curtis] is also of the opinion the Indians can be wiped out. They have 5,000 or more horses which can be taken from them, and when entirely afoot, they [Indians] cannot do so much mischief at any rate, and probably enough of them can be killed to stop them, which will be the grand object of the expedition, thereby giving peace and security to the frontier. All is well at present.
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Give my respects to your family and reserve the same to yourself.
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Yours, &c.
Oliver Loving
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Editor’s note: Col. James Bourland was a 1st cousin, once removed, to Oliver Loving of Palo Pinto Co TX, son of Susannah Bourland (c1787-1842/50) and Joseph Loving (1786-1842), and grandson of Martha Slaton and Wm. M. Bourland (d-1806).
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From a gg-gson of Oliver Loving of Los Alamos NM.
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“When Oliver Loving delivered a herd of about 1,000 of cattle to Denver CO in 1861 and stayed there until he sold them (probably several weeks), he was arrested and thrown in the Denver jail, because he was a Southern Sympathizer. His friend Chris ‘Kit’ Carson, a Lt-Col. in the New Mexico Volunteer Union Army that defeated the Confederates at Santa Fe, bailed him out of jail. I think the thing they had in common was they were both Freemasons.
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“On this 1861 drive I believe that Loving drove the cattle north through the Indian Territory until he hit the Santa Fe Trail and then west to Bent’s [Old] Fort [now Otera Co CO] and north again to Denver. Bent’s Fort was probably where Carson and Loving met. ... The Comanches considered Palo Duro Canyon [Randall Co TX] the site of man's creation (their sacred ground). Plus they probably had up to 5,000 horses
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Oliver Loving (1812-1867) born in Hopkins Co KY, and died 1867 Fort Sumner, New Mexico Territory [now DeBaca Co NM] while using a Henry Repeating Rifle. Loving, m-1833 Muhlenburg Co KY to Susan Doggett Morgan. Their son, Lt-Col. Wm. Willis Loving [1838-1861 Weatherford, Parker Co
TX], was a member of Col. A.S. Johnston’s 2nd U.S. Cavalry, who made a headquaters camp ca. 1856 on the Leona River, Uvalde Co TX. W.W. Loving m-1858 Carinnia Ann Durkee. Oliver Loving teamed with John Durkee, then later Charles Goodnight, to drive cattle to markets in Missouri, Kansas, Illinois, and the Western Territories. Oliver Loving supplied meat to the Confederacy, and when the war ended, the Confederacy owed Loving $40,000. Loving was killed in 1867 in New Mexico, while driving cattle to market to get the money to repay the cattlemen who had supplied the cattle during the war. per Read’s "Lovings in America" and Holden’s "Frontier Problems," p52.
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Patti, prochette@Juno.com
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