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Thanks Danny for posting those orders.

The one thing that makes me think that more companies were intended to be formed as Crawfords Battalion and maybe even a full regiment is that the 2 Companies identified in it comes from these orders. The men from the 19th and 33rd Arkansas would have been men from Sevier, Pike, Howard and Ouachita Counties. However, the only men identified in Crawfords Battalion came from Jefferson and Bradley County which were local conscripts.

One of those orders hints that maybe the "extra" company from the 33rd Arkansas, that was supposed to be in Crawford Battalion, seems to have found it way into Portlocks 24th Arkansas. This could well have been a change in orders that we do not have, since so many of the men of the 24th AR. were sick in the hospital. This is some of the swapping around of these troops that I was so feeblely trying to explain.

Also we do not know how many of the men from Sevier county died at the hospital at Sulphur Springs before their names every made it onto a muster roll records since the first Muster roll at Sulphur Springs wasn't taken until August 31st, well after the high point of the major run of illness.

Anyway with the losses suffered with the capture of the troops at Arkansas Post an the consolidation of survivors into Hardy's regiment. There were too many colonels and not enough soldiers. Dawson was the senior officer, but his illness and reputation did not stand him in good with his superiors. Col. Dunnington didn't think much of Dawson's command abilities and this is made very evident when a Navy Lieutenant (Dunnington) is promoted to be an Army Colonel to rank over Dawson at Arkansas Post. That would tend to tell you a lot. But that is another point.

All in All this kind of schuffling of these troops back and forth between the 19th, 24th, 33rd, and Crawfords Battalion makes trying to nail all of this down like trying to nail Jello to a wall.

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