Captain Joseph J. Ingram of Company "A" appears to have first enlisted as a private in Company "H" of the 2nd Arkansas Infantry at Helena, AR. in June of 1861. A large number of this company seem to have been formally members of the "Southern Guards" Infantry Company of the 24th Arkansas Militia at Pine Bluff. This would correspond with the ending of his 12 month enlistment in June of 1862, his returning home and being appointed as a Captain in Crawford's Battalion. Also he may have been the younger son of the noted "Col. Ingram" of Sir Henry Morton Stanley biography. The Ingram Family had a residence at Sulphur Springs as noted by land plats and Col Robert G. Shavers during his return visit to Sulphur Springs in 1913 where he noted that a Guard post of the camp had been on the Ingram Place.