For those of you who have the wonderful book by James Willis "AR Conf. in the Western Theater. Page166: Please note the section about...7th Arkansas' Fletcher M. Gibson....... The letter about watermelon seeds: (dated Aug 23, 1861 Pocahontas, AR) is from My GG Grandfather Fletcher Gibson of Company A. Maj. C.W. Phifers, AR. Cav. Battalion. (later to become Co B. 2nd AR CAV.) He was sick with pneumonia in hospitals at Nashville, Bowling Green & died in an Atlanta Hospital 15 March 1862. He did is not Fletcher M. Gibson of the 7th AR. Dr. John Ferguson (AR. Hist.Soc) & I corresponded many times on this. The only record we can find for my Fletcher Gibson states died Atlanta Hospital... no grave site...no personal effects. The Fletcher M. Gibson in a Memphis hospital, furloughed by a surgeon to AR & disappeared is not the Fletcher Gibson who wrote the letters home (quoted again on page 119 & 120). Fletcher Gibson is also the G Grandfather of Lillian Nichols McKeown (my first cousin in Rock Springs) Lillian shared the original letters with me years ago. Infact, I just did a memorial dedication for Fletcher Gibson in the Andrews Chapel Cemetery in Barkada, Drew Co., AR in Oct. and Lillian was part of that dedication, as was the reenactment group from the 1st AR. We placed his memorial headstone next to the gravesite of his wife Nancy Jane Perry Gibson/Gonder/Shelton. Who was 16 when he left and never saw her or his son Fletcher Daniel Myers Gibson (Lillian's Grandfather). So please put a "post it" on this page to correct it. I am not being critical at all of James Wilson, he did a great job...I just know how easy it is to get things mixed up when you are not of the direct line. Even then too!!! Thanks, Bettye Hogue Bond