Private David Walcott (Woolcut)
D Company
He joined the Regiment on the 17 March (1 March?) 1863, family legend says that he was plowing a field in Wayne County, KN, near his home close to the Cumberland River, when Union cavalry rode up and stole the horses. Mad he went down the Cumberland River into Tennessee and joined the Confederate Army.
Captured near Franklin (Brentwood), TN, on 17 December 1864, he was then to spent the rest of the war at Camp Douglas Prisonr, Illinois, released 15 May 1865.
He went home to Wayne County where he died on 20 May 1923 and was buried at Rogers Grove Cemetery, Wayne County, KY, just outside of the town of Monticello.
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