This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/AiB.2ACE/1121.2.1.1 Message Board Post: Belinda, when I went to my file on my husband's greatgrandfather's company, I discovered that you and I had corresponded in August 1999. Nonetheless, please see below what I have on A. A. Watkins: "A. A. Watkins/Wadkins was a native of South Carolina and living in Freestone County at the beginning of the war. Originally with L. D. Bradley (my husband's greatgrandfather) in Peck’s Company, 12th Texas Infantry, he transferred to Bradley's Company in Waul's Texas Legion at Hempstead on February 3, 1862. He stated at that time that he was twenty-six and single. In that same year, after arriving in Mississippi with the company, he was left behind in a hospital in Holly Springs, according to an undated letter Captain Bradley wrote to his father. “A. A. Watkins was left at Holly Springs in the hospital. I think he is also dead though I have not heard from him.” His military record confirms that A. A. Watkins died at Holly Springs, having been reported sick there since October 29, 1862. The company experienced a lot of illness that cold fall, beginning with an earlier unprotected ride in open rail cars from Jackson to Holly Springs." Hope this is of some help, Kitty