Hi Bryan and Norman -

thanks for your postings and kind help; my only evidence re Camp Reed possibly being at Dooley's Ferry is what was written by Wallis (and also at the URL for Newton's 10th Ark. Cavalry/Pettus State Troops on Tom Ezell's Ark. CSA regiments website):

"After serving 12 months as State Troops, all of the Companies, ten in number, I think, were ordered to elect new Officers for each Company, and a Colonel, and other Regimental Officers, and prepare to be turned over to the Confederate Service; this was done: C.K. Holman was elected
Capt., N. Cook 1st Lieut., Jacob Moon 2d Lieut., and W.M. Wallis 3d Lieut. Robt. C. Newton was elected Col. of the Regiment; and the Regiment of ten Companies, being all of the State Troops in sight, was mustered into the Confederate Service on the 4th day of October, 1864, and served without ceasing until about the last day of May, 1865, when the encampment, which was near DOOLEYS FERRY, in Hempstead Co., Ark., was abandoned, the most of the men having been given Furloughs to go home, and cut Wheat."

Someday........!!!?!?!?!?!?!

- y.o.s.,

Ken