Re: Edward McAlister
The Arkansas History Commission should have the pension file. I have both the Ingmire and Allen pension indices, which were taken straight from the AHC files. I don't know why the name won't come up, unless some data entry genius mis-typed it when they were putting their database together. Maybe you could try entering various permutations of McCallister (that's the way the name appears in the pension record) and see if anything bobs up.