Re: Colonel Dobbin's First Arkansas Cavalry Regime
I seriously doubt your ancestor lied about his service.
I know for a fact that my James Thomas Harper is listed as killed in Atlanta in a Tennessee site.
It never happened. He was wounded there in Atlanta, but he survived and later came to Arkansas. I inherited his pug nose, his
skin coloring very light, and his thick head of almost bushy hair. My brother got the bushy like hair and the same color-red.
So Harper did survive.
There are even a few things that have happened in my own life that I would be pressed to prove happened,
but it did. So as far as not finding proof in print, to me that does not necessarily mean much.