Doyle- "Fortunes of war". It seems to me a great irony that those 200 or so men (minus my g-g grnfther. and others) of Portlocks regiment arrived at Ark. Post just in time to be captured and though they later petioned the Confed. war dept. to rejoin the "orginal 24th" in Ark. the request was denied and there became two (kind of) 24th's. The one in Ark. spending the war close to home in relative quiet (with the exception of the red river campaign of '64) and the other seeing horrendous action with the Army of Tennessee including Atlanta and in the very center of the charge with Cleburne at Franklin. I've always wondered how many of this "band of 200" survived to surrender at Bentonville. Not many I'd wager. Thanks Doyle.