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Porterfield, Joseph Rufus “Joe”
Private—Enlisted in Co. I, 3rd Arkansas Infantry, at Tulip, Arkansas, June 25, 1861; absent on sick furlough to Dallas county, Arkansas, February 16, 1862; absent without leave, March 20, 1862; dropped from the rolls, August 31, 1863; enlisted in Co. F, 26th Arkansas Infantry, in Dallas county, Arkansas, June 4, 1862; detailed to 9th Texas Field Battery in 1862; born in Tennessee, December 15, 1836; died in Arkansas, January 21, 1918; buried in Holeman Cemetery in Dallas county; married Elizabeth; filed Arkansas pension application #22719 from Dallas county, August 7, 1916; listed in Dallas county 1860 census; occupation laborer; attended 1899 Confederate reunion at Princeton, Arkansas (gave his residence as Dalark, Arkansas).

This man was my gg uncle, he was permanant in Lamar's battery.

J.Mac.

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