This article is about "P.M. Boliner" who arrived 1849 in Ft Worth TX, went to McKenzie College in Clarksville TX, then enlisted in Sims' 9th Cavalry, (Twisted deductive reasoning suggests that most of Sims' 9th Cav, Co E were in McKenzie College.) ..He said he WALKED back east and served in several more regiments.
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Maybe his name was misspelled, but I couldn't find him in the CSA eastern theater records.
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Below is an article from an 1897 book about the men in a Confederate veterans organization in Memphis TN.

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http://www.archive.org/stream/oldguardingray01math/oldguardingray01math_djvu.txt
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SKETCHES OF MEMPHIS VETERANS WHO UPHELD HER STANDARD IN THE WAR, AND OF OTHER CONFEDERATE
WORTHIES. by J. Harvey Mathes.
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BOLINER, PATRICK McHENRY, son of James and Ann (McCullough) Boliner, was
born in Staunton, Va., September 14, 1831. ..His ancestors were of Revolutionary stock,
and his grand-father Boliner was in the war of 1812. ..He is a nephew of the late John
McCullough, the tragedian, who was his mother's brother, they being the only two of the
family who came over from Ireland, as far as he knows. ..The Mc in his name is for
McCullough.

In 1852 young Boliner, whose father had died in 1849, went to Fort Worth, Texas, and
after working a few years started to college at McKenzie College of Clarksville, Texas,
where he was a student thirty years of age when the war began. ..When the news came of
the firing on Fort Sumpter 300 young men dropped their books and rushed off for the
war, Boliner among the rest. ..He says now that his class had a lesson ready in
differential calculus that has never yet been recited.

He enlisted in May, 1861, at Clarksville, Texas, in Company E, Ninth Texas Cavalry, and
was in a brigade commanded by General James McQueen Mcintosh at the battle of Elk
Horn, Ark., March 4, 1862, where both Mcintosh and General Ben McCulloch (no
relative of Boliner) were killed; was in several engagements out West with the Indians.
..He came over with the regiment, without horses, with Price's army, and was in the battle
of Corinth, on foot, October 4, 1862, and was severely wounded there.

Later in the war his regiment became part of Ross’ famous brigade, and he served in it
under Stonewall Jackson and Nathan Bedford Forrest until the surrender; was wounded at
Dallas, Ga., and at Franklin, Tenn., by a sabre cut; was captured at Spring Hill, but
knocked the guard in the head and escaped the same night; never missed a fight, except
when absent on account of wound, which was only a short time; was paroled May 13,
1865, at Jackson, Miss.; has taught school and been variously engaged since.

He has made Memphis his home for thirty years; never married. ..Joined this
Association October 9, 1894; became an active member of Company A, Confederate
Veterans, at once, and was with it at the reunion in Richmond in June and July, 1896.
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Editor's note: ..As a science teacher, I was thrilled to learn that the McKenzie College students were studying calculus. ".. He says now [1897] that his class had a lesson ready in differential calculus that has never yet been recited. .."

We think that Col. James Bourland's brother, John McElroy Bourland (1804-1853), was a teacher at McKenzie College. ..Our only proof is that he was Methodist, while the rest of our Bourlands were Baptist.
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Rev. John Witherspoon Pettigrew McKenzie est. 1841, a Methodist College, Clarksville TX ... see a photo of the college dormitory on Wikipedia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McKenzie_College_(Texas)
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Patti, prochette@Juno.com
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