Pay receipt of James Franklin
McKinley for enlistment
in Company K , 20th
Texas Cavalry, CSA
Received of J. W. Johnson Assistant Q. M. C S army Fifty dollars
in
full for my Bounty Money to which I am Entitled by virtue
of
my Enlistment in the Service of the provisional army of the
Confederate State of America in Company K Commanded
By
Capt McGee in Col Bass Regiment of Texas
Cavalry
James F. McKinley [signature]
Camp
McColloch July 11th 1862
The
State of Texas) This day personally appeared before me
County of Navarro) J. C. C. Wrich [?] a notary Public in
an for Navarro County James F. McKinley
to
me personally Known and acknowledged that he executed the foregoing
Receipt to J. W. Johnson A. Q. M. C S. A. for the purposes and
Considerations therein Specified, To certify which Hereunto set
my
hand and official seal at Corsicana this 11th day of July AD 1862
JCC Wrich[?] signature
Transcribed by William Boyd
Kisinger; copy of actual document
received from National Archive Trust Fund Feb,
2001. Question
marks indicate preceding word
not discernible by transcriber.
“Uncle Tom” (Allen Wilson) McDaniel returned from “The War” with the horse
ridden by James Franklin McKinley on the day of his death, 17 July, 1863.(1) Records
indicate the only “battle” participated in by the 20th Texas Cavalry
was near Honey Springs, Indian Territory, on 17 July, 1863, sometimes referred
to as the “Gettysburg of the South.”
Honey Springs Battlefield site, is owned by the State of Oklahoma, and
superintended by an historian well-educated in the history of the battle. The location of each unit’s position
(Confederate and Union), is mapped out, and well maintained for visits by
tourists. Visit the web site at
http://checotah.lakewebs.net/honeysprings/
(1)
Page 34, THE McKINLEY CLAN, A Genealogy of the Charles Carson McKinley Family,
second printing, compiled by R. B. Fore, Jr., R. E. McKinley, and R. L.
McKinley, 1981, Texian Press, Waco.