In my research of a very limited scope of Camp White Sulphur Springs I am absolutely convienced that in the confusion of those days of reorganization of the Confederate army in Arkansas in the summer of 1862, that there were dozens, if not scores, and maybe hundreds of men who fell "through the paperwork cracks" like Benton Musgrove's story.

I have run into four or five simular stories that we were lucky enough to find some record of but not enough to verify their official status at Sulphur Springs. To me those were the "lucky" one. There was at least a trail of sorts left of them. How many men passed away with no trail at all left behind? Like Tykes and Matthews who names are carved in a stone monument.

And then we have the little hints of the 4th Missouri Infantry men who were wounded at Pea Ridge and sent to the Hospital at Pine Bluff in March 1862?

Or Parsons Missouri Brigade men who according to orders were sent to the White Sulphur Hospital in August 1862 (Hindman telegraphs) with no names given and no records that they were there.

Or as you have pointed out the man from the 5th Loiusiana Inf who was wounded in Virginia, probably in the Seven Days Battle who was at White Sulphur.

Or the wounded from Shiloh, or the Corinth Hospital, that came back throught here going home like Col R.G. Shavers. Luckily we know what happened to him.

It is a daunting task which I fear will never be finished in my lifetime.