Hello Joe, many years ago I searched for information about Captain Gould's Company. I believe there were some threads about it by myself on Jim's site although I can't remember where. It could be the Texas board. He had a pre War unit if I remember correctly that listed a roster that would become the basis for Company D., but it was named something else. I remember that the unit that would become Company D had left Red River County, Texas on or about September of 1861 and traveled through Arkansas as many letters were written. The people in Arkansas remarked that it was the finest cavalry company they had ever laid their eyes upon. They had the finest horses and the unit was spit polished or words of that nature. Again, if my memory is correct they joined Forrest in October of 1861 in Memphis, TN and became Company D of Forrests' Cavarly Battalion which would change names during the course of the next few months. ie Forrests' 3rd Tennessee Cavarly and Forrests' 3rd Tennessee Cavarly Regiment. M.L. Sims mentioned in his letter that he was with Forrests' Original Cavarly Battalion. As someone had pointed out there were two of Forrests' companies that surrrended at Fort Donelson, TN Company D and Company I. They never served with Forrest again. I think I remember reading that Gould was born in Rhode Island and was an attorney prior to the War. I stopped at Clarksville, Texas a few years ago to see if I could find any descendatns of the black servant Haywood Goodloe and I did find an old black man who was sort of a family historian and shared that last name. He said that the Goodloe family had owned many servants and the servants came from various families prior to the War and that Haywood Goodloe was not a direct bloodline to his family and the only thing they shared was the last name, he had no interest in Haywood Goodloe's history because of that. The flowers that M.L. Sims sent to be placed on the servants graves never arrived there as the cemetery had been moved in 1881-82 to Green Lawn Cemetery. The Southeast Cemetery by then had some 3,500 graves. In May of 1869 Captain Irving of the quartermasters department had moved 50 Confederate graves to the Chase Cemetery but highly unlikely he moved the servants graves. Some bodies at the Southeast Cemetery were just left behind as we read in newspaper articles during the 1950's while digging basements near the old cemetery for homes bodies were being unearthed. According to papers found at the Ohio Historical Society 70 boxes containing various bodies and body parts were put into a mass grave at Green Lawn from the Southeast Cemetery. (At least that is what the reciept says) The people that had the money did re-inter their loved ones to seperate lots at Green Lawn from the Southeast Cemetery. The Southeast Cemetery was a poor cemetery and if you had no money and died you might end up there. The Green Lawn Cemetery however was and still is a private cemetery. The trustees at Green Lawn donated an area for the Union Dead during the War. After March of 1863 this is where the Union Officers and soldiers would be buried in the Columbus area. There were some exceptions, ie dying of small-pox etc. On August 1, 1863 the Camp Chase Cemetery came into existence and Confederates were buried there. In 1864 about two dozen Union soldiers were taken from the Southeast cemetery and re-interred at Green Lawn. Again in May of 1869 Captain Irving reports that he moved 6 Union graves from the Southeast Cemetery to Green Lawn. I am getting way off topic here. That is all I know about Captain Gould's Company D.