STOKES, K. K., "CORPORAL", Enlisted in the service of the Confederate States of 
America, and served "Honorably" in Company "I", 13th Texas "Cavalry", "Flowernaughts", 
C.S.A., later "Dismounted". 
(note: Company "I" was formed in Orange County, Texas.)
(note: gave his life in Battle for his Countries cause; the cause of "Liberty".)

This is wrong according to the 13TH TEXAS CAVALRY REGIMENT (DISMOUNTED),  
ROSTER OF SOLDIERS WHO DIED ON ACTIVE DUTY,  MARCH 1862 - MAY 1865 at 
http://www.couchgenweb.com/civilwar/13txcav.html.  It says he died of a disease in 
Lafayette Co., Arkansas.


The following informtion was sent to me by Tom Read of Woodville, Texas

Captain Samuel Fairchild's Company I, originally of Orange County, Texas, was with the 
rest of the 13th Cavalry near the confluence of the Red and Sulphur Rivers in Lafayette 
County, Arkansas, in July 1862.  They had an outbreak of measles, as well as typhoid 
fever from contaminated water.  K. K. Stokes and the other soldiers who died at Camp 
Beaty and Camp English were buried near Walnut Hill, the plantation of the first governor 
of Arkansas, James S. Conway.  Conway's small family cemetery is now a state park 
(although a very unimpressive one.)  The troops of the 13th were buried nearby at a site 
called "Soldier Ridge," which the locals can still locate for you. 

In reference to the care the soldiers received at Camp Beaty, it was probably quite good 
considering the time.  They had a field hospital set up, and had Dr. Edward Currie as the 
regimental surgeon, as well as Lieutenant John J. Burroughs, also a doctor, who was with 
Company K, from here in Woodville, Texas.  They made several trips during July to Little 
Rock for medicine.  Unfortunately, none of the treatments they had then for typhoid fever 
actually worked - they just slowed the symptoms.

He joined in Orange Co., Texas on 1 Mar 1862, but may have already been a  member of 
Fairchild's militia company.  He was 28 years old when he enlisted.  The company 
reported to Camp Burnett, at Porter's Springs, Houston County in mid-Mach, and was 
there until the regiment left for Camp McCulloch, near Tyler in June.  They left for 
Arkansas June 2nd, 1862, crossed the state line at Bright Star, Ark., and crossed the Red 
River a week or so before Stokes died on July 14th, 1862.