Long column. .. Please help define on the "long strip" in "guarding a long strip" described by Pvt John J. Miller below.
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”Private D.L. Cabe and myself enlisted in Company ‘A’ in Col. Jim Bourland’s Cavalry Regt. .. I think it was in June 1863. ..I have no papers to show. ..We were transferred to ‘B’, Jim Diamond’s Company, in which we served close to three years, but called out on dress parade and disbanded in April 1865, it might have been May, as we were in Special Service guarding a long strip of frontier against the depredations of the Indians. ..We disbanded at Gainsville without papers of discharge.” ...Pvt. John Jehu Miller’s Jul 3, 1915 letter for David Lafayette Cabe’s CSA pension. ... See pension application specifics, etc. below.
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Did this ";ong strip" stretch from Spanish Fort, Montague Co TX to the Antelope Hills, now Roger Mills Co OK (adjacent to Higgins Co TX)? ...That's about 200 miles distant.
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From my Name Index and Bibliography.
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CABE, David Lafayette Cabe (1826 NC-1893 now Garvin County, OK) m-Frances__, m2-Louisa Miller (Co G, B Bourland's Regt)

MILLER, John Jehu Miller, b-1845 Macon Co NC, son of Noah; m-Marie; 1900 Mason Co TX cen p267 (Co A, B, Bourland's Regt)

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Oklahoma County CSA pension Numbers 2388 and 2389. Pvt John Miller wrote a Jul 3, 1915 “proof of service letter” for Pvt David Lafayette Cabe of Bourland’s Regt, Form B Oklahoma Pension No’s 2388, 2389. Louisa (Miller) Cabe, Oklahoma City, Route 10 Bx A-14; Filed Aug 24, 1915; Approved Oct 7, 1915; Cancelled Sep 18, 1918.
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By the way in the National Archival records, this John Jehu Miller was mentioned once in his 22+ months of service in Bourland's Regt: "J. Miller, Co B, October 1864, sick". ..And D.L. Cabe, is listed as "Cabe" and is also mentioned only once, "Aug 1864, sent to Sub-Dist Hdqts (Bonham TX) in charge of prisoners."
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Again, please comment on this "long strip."
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Patti, prochette@Juno.com
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