Bob, I've also heard the story that Doyle related about Colonel Yell's body being reinterred back home in Jefferson County, Arkansas. The story also goes that the Louisiana grave marker was left as a memorial to the colonel. Like Doyle, I haven't seen any real documentation to substantiate the story, but it has the ring of truth to it.

By the way, you may already know this, but while poking around some Arizona sites, doing some research on a group of Confederate deserters who passed through Arizona towards the end of the war, I ran across a reference to the grave of Pvt. Oscar Livingston Mahoney, Co. K, 26th Arkansas Infantry (previously served in Co. C, 9th Arkansas Infantry) in Greenwood Lawn Memorial Cemetery at Phoenix, Arizona. Mahoney wasn't part of the group I'm researching -- he apparently moved to Arizona long after the war.