1850 United States Federal Census about Erastus D Gray
Name: Erastus D Gray
Age: 7
Birth Year: abt 1843
Birthplace: North Carolina
Home in 1850: Prairie, Prairie, Arkansas
Gender: Male
Family Number: 15
Household Members:
Name Age
Thomas Gray 39
Mary Ann Gray 44
Itilichus Gray 12
Jane A Gray 10
Erastus D Gray 7
Thomas J Gray 2
James C Mills 23
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Erastus D. Gray
Enlisted as a Private
"C" Co. AR 2nd Mtd Rifles Cavalry
Other Information:
died in 1894
Buried: National Cemetery, Little Rock, AR
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Eurastus D. Gray
Residence was not listed;
Enlisted as a Private
AR Poe's Battn Cavalry
Sources used by Historical Data Systems, Inc.:
- Index to Compiled Confederate Military Service Records
- Various Cemetery listings on the internet
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Erastus D. Gray, age 18, Private, Company C, 2nd Regiment Arkansas Mounted Rifles, enlisted November 1, 1861 at Flat Creek, Mo. by Jas. McIntosh for 12 months, appointed 2nd Sergeant May 8, 1862, admitted Atlanta, Ga. hospital April 28, 1863, remaining through June, deserted near Forrest, Miss. July 22, 1863, no further records
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Eurastus D. Gray, Private, Capt. Dismuks' Company, Poe's Battalion, Arkansas Cavalry,* recorded on the Jan/Feb, 1864 muster roll as absent, "On detached Making Cartridge boxes," no other records
* This battalion was formed of that portion of the 11th Regiment Arkansas Infantry which had become scattered throughout the State of Arkansas by reason of capture at Port Hudson, La., and desertions.
Capt. Dismuks' Company was transferred to 1st Regiment (Crawford's) Arkansas Cavalry and became Company M
M317: Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Arkansas
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Second Arkansas Mounted Riflemen
The Second Arkansas Mounted Riflemen was organized
in the summer of 1861, with James McIntosh, colonel;
Ben T. Embry, lieutenant-colonel; — Brown, major;
W. D. DeBerry, surgeon; W. A. C. Sayle, assistant sur-
geon. Colonel McIntosh was educated at the United States
military academy. He was impetuous to a degree that
scorned all caution. Being ordered by General McCulloch
into the Indian Territory against the Creek chief, Hopo-
eithleyohola, he dispersed the Indian Federal organiza-
tion. It is said his regiment was deployed in groups of
two for five miles, when he at its head began the attack
upon the Indian camp. He was speedily promoted to
brigadier-general, and Embry became colonel. The cap-
tains were Gibson, Parker, King, Arrington, Harris
Flanagin, Witherspoon, Brown and Gamble. General
McIntosh was killed at the battle of Elkhorn Tavern, or
Pea Ridge. The regiment was ordered to Mississippi
and was reorganized at Corinth, when Capt. Harris Flan-
agin was elected colonel; Maj. J. A. Williamson, lieuten-
ant-colonel; Capt. James P. Eagle, major. Colonel Flan-
agin being elected governor of the State, Williamson
became colonel and Eagle, lieutenant-colonel. Colonel
Williamson lost a leg at the battle of Resaca, May, 1864,
and J. T. Smith, appointed colonel, was killed in battle
July 28th, James P. Eagle then succeeding him as colonel
of the regiment. Ten years afterward, Colonel Eagle was
speaker of the house of representatives, and after another
decade was elected governor of Arkansas, as which he
served two terms. Captain Witherspoon became attorney-
general. The regiment took part in the battles of Oak
Hills and Elkhorn, and in the Kentucky campaign
under E. Kirby Smith. Among its battles were Rich-
mond, Ky., Murfreesboro, Jackson, Miss., Chickamauga,
Resaca, Atlanta, Ezra Church, Lovejoy's Station, Jones-
boro, Moore's Station, Franklin, Tenn., Nashville, Sugar
Creek, and Bentonville, N. C. It surrendered with
Johnston, April 26, 1865, at Greensboro, N. C.
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Poe's (Ark.) Cavalry Bn.
Maj. James T. Poe
The battalion was organized in the spring of 1864 and included a part
of the 11th Ark. Infantry Rgt, prisoners of war and deserters. It was
attached to Crawford's, Wright's brigade, Trans-Mississippi Department.
It fought at Poison Spring and Marks' Mills. The unit operated along
The Saline River in Arkansas and later disbanded.