Thank you Howard.....

I am new to your blog and wanted a chance to thank Howard for his Part 1 and Part 2 aritcles in the Atascosa County Chronicles! I very much enjoyed these articles.

I accidentally stumbled onto this blog while searching for information of the Men of the 36th Texas Calvary. I believe that my Great Grandfather was a member of Company E? I believe that he lived in Karnes County in 1861? I found his name on a rooster of the 36th, but I'm not positive as of yet. I understand that there is a company rooster in "The Dead Men Wore Boots"? His name was Eugene Archer and I believe that he was a private, in his twenties, when the War broke out? He was my Paternal Grandmother's Father. His Father, John Archer, also served as a captain during the War. John was a West Point graduate who moved his family from Maryland to Texas when Eugene was a young boy. I've heard that John was in his fifties in 1861, and he was stationed in Richmond during most of the war. I have been to the Virginia State Library and found brief paperwork that placed him there.

I live in Virginia, about forty five miles outside of Washington D.C. Only about fifteen miles from the Manassas Battlefield. My husband and I visited in and around San Antonio last March. While we were there, we located Eugene Archer's head stone in the Uvalde Cemetery. After serving in the War, he later became a Judge, just as his father had been. My Grandmother was born in Uvalde.