Anthony, I know from Hindman's telegraphs that Crawford is ordered to Sulphur Springs to take charge of the extra troops there and organize them into his Battalion. NOW, whether he actually showed up and did any actual "organizing" or exercised any actual command function is another question. I don't see any directives addressed to him personally in the HindmanTelegraphs outside of his orders, which were more to inform Shavers that he was (supposed to be) coming, since most of the telegrams are directed to the camps commander R.G. Shavers and General Roane.

This is not to say that those orders may have been recended the next day and that order could have been lost. But the Battalion still was identified as Crawfords. So I am assuming that he had something to do with it.