Allen, when Marmaduke's 18th Arkansas Regiment was redesignated as the 3rd Confederate Regiment on January 31, 1862, by order of the Adjutant and Inspector-General's Office, new muster rolls were prepared. Men who were no longer with the regiment--through discharge, death or desertion--were dropped from the rolls with, unfortunately, no remarks or reasons given. Companies I and K of the old 18th Arkansas (composed primarily of suspected Unionists) had so many desertions that when the regiment was reorganized as the 3rd Confederate Infantry, they were consolidated into a single company, and about half of their members dropped from the rolls.

Some of these men had died, most had deserted. Many of them later enlisted in Union regiments in Arkansas, Kansas, and Missouri.