I can't say that the army clerk in 1864 made any errors exactly. I see where the bland, cold, statement of facts in Thomas Carr's records could be exactly factual in one interpretation, as you have put forth. It would have been nice had that army clerk included the simple single facts that maybe Carr had been transferred from an army hospital, or where he was captured, would have answered a lot of questions.

One interetsting sidelight of this thread is that my mother's brother, Fred Laminack, married in 1926 an Eva Lee Carr b.1903 from Pine Bluff. Aunt Eva Carr Laminack just recently died last year in Sikeston, Missouri at the age of 104. Aunt Eva was related to the 1932 2 time Olympic Gold medal winner Bill Carr, from Pine Bluff. and I would bet that she was some kin to this Thomas Carr, but I haven't looked it up.