The Falcon Guards, Lafaytee Co, AR

Dear Aunt Ludie,
I would like to find a list of the Falcon Guards I believe one of my
ancestors could have been in that particular company. Also I would like a
list of the Lafayette county company D patriots.

B. K.

Dear B. K.,

Here is your list of Falcon Guards.
J. C. C. Moss, Captain
Wm. R. Selvidge, 1st Lt.
P. S. Lively , 2 Lt.
Wm. Martin 3rd
F. J. Eddy , Orderly Sergeant
Thomas Boyse, 2 ND Sergeant
Thomas J. Milwee 3rd
John Carson, 4th
William Andrew Jackson Cooper, 1st corporal
B. W. Bourland 2nd
W.S. Kent 3rd
J.H. Meador 4th
Larkin Nix, Ensign
Privates
J. B. Nations, W.A. Altum, T. F. Gainn, Ben Lewis, A. Duckworth, Lott
Porter Massey, M.L. Hinton, Z.P. Burns, S. Cox, R.W. Orman, Crabb, J.L.
Jeffereys, C. Eddy, A.A. Rogers, J. Mcnatt, P.R.S. Jones, G.B. Friday, F.
Richards, J. Archer, M. Jeffreys A. Sters, W. C. Milwee. J. Cook, A. Capps,
I. Burns, L.T. Hinton, S Cothran, Wm Hairston, J. Spears, A.L. Thornton, W.
Jeffreys, J.J. Jacobs, T. R. Smith, E. Altum, P.M. Hutchens, W.W.
Lightfoot, B.J. Drake C. Crain, J.N. Gotcher, M. Lively, Wm Reynolds, J.M.
Massey, L.E. Lile, J. P. Vines, E. N. Dudley, J. Cox, A. Adams, J. W.
Turnbow, R. A. McClure, J. M. Gotcher, J. Roberts, Henry Lewis, J. W.
Cooper, O.P. Carruth. J. Vines, T. Pollard, T. Beasley, A.P. Cothran. A.
Burk, Wm. Arendell, E.M. Rockett, J.H. Raler, J. Turngough, J.R. Rockett,
C. Gray. J. Duff, W.D. McClure.

Company D. From Lafayette County, Arkansas was first known as the Bright
Star Rifles. They numbered seventy-three men.

Capt. Joseph C. Tyson
1st Lt. Charles A. Jenkins
2nd Lt. James J. Meyers
3rd Lt. Chesley G. Williams

I don’t have a list of the privates of the Bright Star, Company D.
Volunteers of Lafayette County. I will find it and send it under separate
cover.

Aunt Ludie

(Most of these extracts were from the True Democrat)