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More on Capt. James Harvey Fulbright’s Civil War Letters
(submitted by Ed Stout)

I recently ran across the Fulbright web site while looking for information about my great great grand uncle Garrett B. Shubert of Linn Creek, Missouri. In the site’s Spring 94 Newsletter I ran across the Letters of Capt. James Harvey Fulbright written during the Civil War. These were submitted by a Jean Burgess. She might be interested in knowing that I believe it was my ancestor, Garrett B. Shubert who delivered the 26 March 1862 letter. I have four of G. B. Shubert’s letters. His letter of 15 Oct 1865, written from Ft. Leavenworth says in part, "I am here now for the purpose of being mustered out of Uncle Samuel's Service after having served him four years and five months, except the three months I served old Jeff as a prisoner." I have always wondered about his being a POW. James Harvey Fulbright’s 26 March 1862 letter may have shed some light on that as it says at the beginning:

Camped two & half miles from Vanburen, Ark., March 26th, 1862.

My Dearest Wife, Pa, Ma, and children.

I now have an oportunity to drop you a line by Mr. Shubert who is going to start for Linn Creek, Mo. in the morning. He was taken prisoner at Linn & now released for parole.

That Mr. Shubert surely must have been Garrett. The Fulbright family estate is not far south of Linn Creek. Garrett obviously delivered the letter as promised. Garrett’s brother, Henry, also of Linn Creek, served in the 29th Missouri Infantry under General Sherman. (I have two of his letters.) Garrett continued his service in the Union Army, rising to First Lieutenant, and was a regimental quartermaster. (Apparently about the same job that James Fulbright eventually served as in his Confederate unit.)

Thanks to you all for posting the information that has helped to shed some light on the life of Garrett Shubert. I thought you, or especially Jean Burgess, would be interested in this.

----Robert A. Malseed, 800 Adams Pl. SE, Albuquerque, NM, 87108-3411