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James R. Carson, Co I, Carter's 21st TX Cavalry

I need specific data about the CSA service of James R. Carson's service in Company "I" of Carter's 21st TX Cavalry. He evidently served in more than one company of Carter's 21st TX Cavalry. (Carson's personal data toward bottom of page).
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On Sep 17, 1863 the Union Army took over Pine Bluff, Jefferson Co AR, CSA attempted, but failed, to retake Pine Bluff on Oct 25, 1863. .... The following is from Bailey's BETWEEN THE ENEMY AND TEXAS: PARSON's TEXAS CAVALRY IN THE CIVIL WAR, p158.
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" ... 'Sometimes after the battle of Pine Bluff, one company [Company I] of the 21st left camp and headed home when they learned that their families that Mexican and Indian raids along the Texas frontier. When the commanding general [J.S. Marmaduke] asked Lt. [W. M.] Walton [Company B] to stop them. Walton told him 'it is useless -- that I knew the men -- and they would continue until they [heard] contrary news to what they they had received.' Further, Walton believed 'they would come back -- whenever they found their families in safety."
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"Walton was correct. Ordered to ordered to overtake and escort the defiant troops back to Arkansas, he finally caught with them several hundred miles from Camden. The company captain, whom Walton did not name, politely refused to retrace his steps, but promised he would return and bring every man with him after he ascertained why local authorities could not handle problems along the Texas frontier. True to his word, when Texans had discovered that they acted on exaggerated rumors, he entire command halted and returned to Arkansas. Apparently no disciplinary action resulted from this desertion of en masse."
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Editor's note: Below is a paragraph from W.F. Guthrie's 1929 brochure. Bailey stated that of the men in Capt. J.B. Roche's Co "L" of Carter's 21st Regt were from Coryell and Lampasas counties, p300
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Lt. Carson was reared in the Southwest part of Lampassas county on a ranch. � He learned early to ride, trail, scout and fight Indians. The Governor told him to make the ride to Pine Bluff, Arkansas and make requisition to Col. Morgan for thirty men. The officers talked the matter over and decided to send him fifteen men, as they were expecting [Union] General [N.P.] Banks to make his march up Red River. These fifteen men and three pack-mules were placed in charge of Lt. Carson and he was ordered to make his way to Old Fort Chadbourne on Oak Creek, now in Coke county, and report for duty. We arrived there, and the first order was to arrange this squadron into a company. Carson lined the men up, read the order and told them they were to see some of the hardest service that they had ever experienced. That he would serve as lieutenant commander, but not as captain, as he had nothing to do with making up the company. A second lieutenant, a sergeant and a corporal were elected by the men and Carson appointed me as adjutant and general roust-about. So Carson’s Company B, Mounted Rangers came into existence. � Carson made a roll of the company and wrote a note to Adj-Gen. Culberson and asked further orders. As I was the lightest rider, Carson ordered me to deliver the roll to Culberson, who ordered Carson to Paint Rock [Concho County] and to establish quarters there. Four or five days after our arrival there one Col. [J.] Burk arrived with a four-horse wagon, a cook and a half-breed Mexican scout. He issued the company repeating rifles and Colt 45 pistols. The scout was to work with us. We were then assigned to the northern district of the Red River division.
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CARSON, James R. Carson, b-1826 AL; m-Jane G. Cameron; 1860 Brazos cen p82; bro. to Lt. Nathan Franklin Carson; served in Capt G.P. Mattison's TST of Leon Co TX; Carter's TX 21st Cav, Co I; Interesting that he was an adult in the 1860 Brazos Co TX cen, then served in a Leon Co TX militia then enlisted in Co I of the 21st which was recruited from Brazos Co TX ... his family stated that he requested to be in Waul's Legion, so it sounds as though he was an enthusiastic soldier; siblings lived in Leon and later Hamilton Co TX. 285
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Patti, prochette@Juno.com
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P.S. Anne J. Bailey's book, BETWEEN THE ENEMY AND TEXAS: PARSON's TEXAS CAVALRY IN THE CIVIL WAR, has been a God's send in helping me interpret W.F. Guthrie's 1929 article. Please give her my regards.
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http://www.bourlandcivilwar.com/Morgan'sRegtCarter's21stRegtPvtW.F.Guthrie.htm
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http://www.bourlandcivilwar.com/GuthrieBourlandsRegtCoD.htm
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