Capt_Gregg,
Nothing you've said refutes or disproves anything that I said. I said the certificate was "altered". Writing over a printed date number with another number is an alteration. If I'm not mistaken, you are claiming that with all the marriages that took place in Sherman in the early 1860s, that the county office never bothered to print new forms for the 1860s, even after over 4 years had passed? That may not seem odd to you but it sure does to me.
I made the correct point about the names and middle initial being written in by someone else. other than the named couple, because traditionalists have tried to mislead people about this for years. What they want to ignore is the fact that there are examples of "Bloody Bill's" signature out there somewhere where he gave his correct middle initial and yet he is probably the most famous person in our history whose own signature has NEVER been made public. Why is that? Readers can probably correctly guess the reason that Bill Anderson's handwriting has been hidden or destroyed. Hint: "Bloody Bill" Anderson's father was named William C. Anderson.
The highly-questionable, altered marriage certificate, in my view, does not supersede the importance of an eye-witness (McCorkle) account, even if that account was remembered 50 years later. Traditionalist historians are often guilty of criticizing Guerrillas' recollections and memories while, at the same time, expecting people to believe their own mythical versions of what happened (which were written well over 100 years later) with nothing to base them on except for suspicious "documents" and/or vivid imaginations that retell our history according to the way they wish it had happened.
~Texas Jay
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