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From: "Diana Boothe" <>
Subject: Re: [AR-CIVIL-WAR] Searching For:
Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2001 22:46:45 -0500
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Ooooooooo............you are SO good, Bryan!!!!!! And quick, too! LOL.
Thanks for being here, from the list mom!

Diana

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Bryan R. Howerton" <>
To: <>
Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2001 10:41 PM
Subject: Re: [AR-CIVIL-WAR] Searching For:


> John M. Watson enlisted in Co. K, 12th Arkansas Infantry, at Arkadelphia,
> Arkansas, on July 29, 1861; appointed corporal same date. This company
was
> raised in Hempstead County. Corporal Watson was captured when the
> Confederate garrison at Island No. 10 surrendered on April 8, 1862; sent
to
> U.S. Military Prison, Camp Douglas, Illinois; he was exchanged at
Vicksburg,
> Mississippi, on September 23, 1862; he returned to duty, and was captured
> when the Confederate garrison at Port Hudson, Louisiana, surrendered on
July
> 9, 1863. He was paroled and allowed to return to Arkansas on July 12,
1863.
>
> His widow, Susannah Watson, applied for a Confederate pension from
Hempstead
> County in 1921 (Pension #21917). You can order a copy of the pension
record
> from the Arkansas History Commission.
>
> Bryan Howerton
>
> wrote:
>
> > I am looking for information on John M Watson from Ozan,Hempstead,AR
> >
> > Thank You
> >
> > Ann Mims-Neff -- San Antonio,TX

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