Talbot County GaArchives Military Records.....Couch, W S 
Civilwar - Letters Blount's Cavalry, 4th Georgia Batallion
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Letter
Office of 
Ordinary, Talbot County, Ga
A. J. Perryman, Sr., Ordinary
Talbotton, Georgia

Georgia, Talbot County.

Applicant for pension, W. S. Couch, was a member of my company and command, 
C.S.A. Army. He enlisted with me in Company D, with Frank McKinney as Captain, 
4th Georgia Batallion, Blount's Cavalry, about April  1863, State Troops. He 
did serve with State troops until the latter part of the summer, 1864, when he 
was transferred to Wheeler's Cavalry at Spring Place, Geogia, near the line of 
Tennessee, he was attached to the 18th Alabama Regiment, Warren Reese, 
Colonel, Allen's Brigadeer General. Ivison' Division, and followed Wheeler in 
his raid through Tennessee. On returning again, he with his command was 
ordered to Macon, Georgia, to resist Wilson's raid. When Macon was 
surrendered, April 1865, applicant, W. S. Couch, amd writer, escaped capture 
there and left command in Macon as prisoners of Wilson
J. T. Stephenson

Subscribed and sworn to before me this 1st day of Februart, 1918
A.J. Perryman, Sr
Ordinary

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