Saturday, February 5, 2011

Report of Lieutenant Anson J. Walker, Sixth Kansas Cavalry.

Numbers 28. Report of Lieutenant Anson J. Walker, Sixth Kansas Cavalry, of engagement at Poison Spring.  CAMP NEAR CAMDEN, April 20, 1864.

COLONEL: I would respectfully report the part taken by a section of howitzers attached to the Sixth Regiment Kansas Volunteer Cavalry in an engagement with the enemy on the 18th instant: First. Number of commissioned officers present, 1; number of enlisted men, 24. Second. Private Christopher C. Goodman, Company D, Sixth Kansas Volunteer Cavalry, and attached to and doing duty with a section of howitzers attached to the Sixth Kansas Volunteer Cavalry, was killed in the early part of the engagement. Private Henry Gable, Company K, Sixth Kansas Volunteer Cavalry, and attached to and doing duty with a section of howitzers attached to the Sixth Kansas Volunteer Cavalry, is missing.
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Second Lieutenant, Walker Anson J. Home Centerville, Mustered in March 12, 1862, Promoted 1st Lieutenant March 13, 1863. Mustered out March 27, 1865.

Private Goodman Christopher Columbus Home Trading Post Enlisted Dec. 18, 1861, March 7, 1862, Killed in action April 18, 1864, Poison Springs, Ark.

Privates Gable Henry, Home Neutral Lands, Enlisted April 25, 1862, Mustered in April 25, 1862 Assigned to Co. L, March 18, 1865. Mustered out April 25, 1865, De Vall's Bluff, Ark.

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