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Near this site on March 8, 1862, Captain Richard C. Mason of the 16th Arkansas Cavalry was severely wounded and his horse was killed. Mason was rescued by Frank Colbert, a Chickasaw. Mason served for the duration of the war and received an honorable discharge. He died July 27, 1897, at the Soldiers Home at Little Rock, Arkansas, and is buried there in the Confederate Cemetery.
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Caney, Kansas · United States
